If you think about it, an electric vehicle is essentially a battery on wheels, whose energy would typically be used to power those wheels to get you to work or play.
In order to get that energy though, an electric...
In order to increase the output associated with a certain area of solar cells exposed to sunlight, various methods have been tried, such as stacking, concentrating, or spectrum tuning, even nanotechnology.
For example, the most efficient solar cells are about...
Sales of electric vehicles have been experiencing unprecedented growth, as much as 500% greater than last year, depending on which model you look at.
For example, Nissan is currently selling about 2,000 Nissan Leaf per month, and Tesla Motors is...
Yesterday marked a momentous occasion, the gathering of one hundred Tesla Model S and Roadsters on a fifty-mile tour in Southern California. Tesla Motors in an electric parade? Bring it on!
Set for Sunday, September 8, 2013, in an event...
Gold mining in many regions of Africa is one of the leading industries on the continent, with nearly 99% of all gold output being exported to Europe, Asia and America . Finding gold, however, is associated with shocking work...
The quality of homes and other existing buildings in Europe may be improved thanks to the ENEDI (Energy in Building) Group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, an autonomous community of northern Spain.
ENEDI is working with the criteria...
Vehicle mileage might be increased by 5% and power plant industrial process performance may be increased by up to 10%, thanks to physicists at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity.
The physicists studied non-toxic...
Refrigerated trucks might soon be equipped with a new clean technology that could replace the diesel-burning cooling system with fuel cells and reduce significantly the amount of emissions. Thanks to engineers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), delivering...
New evidence that links hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to increased seismic activity, has posed additional threats from water contamination and pollution to citizens living nearby drilling sites.
Two independent research groups revealed that disposal of wastewater used in the process...
Now that the Tesla Supercharger Network has finally extended, in some parts, to the middle of the country, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk can finally take that Tesla Model S cross-country road trip that we've always wanted.
The problem with...
