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At the end of July, the new BMW i3 was revealed, a great compact electric vehicle with about 100mi range and a recharge time as low as three hours. As electric vehicles start to become more a part of the...
According to a controversial study by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, global warming and extremes of rainfall, both deluge and drought, are associated with major upswings in violence. This violence is more prevalent between groups of people...
Nature may provide clues about how to reduce energy leaks from windows, according to engineering experts at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. University engineering professor Ben Hatton and his colleagues describe a new process to reduce heat loss...
We know that renewable energy, such as hydrogen fuel cell technology, could be the future of energy and transportation, but if it isn't economically viable, then why bother? The answer, of course, is because it is the right thing to...
Of course, you could always go for an electric model airplane, but it would be unlikely to carry your massive personage. Enter the GreenWing eSpyder, the world's first electric plane available for sale . Now, we have seen plenty...
In Cornwall, England, there is an environmentally-friendly plant research site that is the perfect place to test the Land Rover Electric Defender 110, a prototype electric truck. Part of the appeal of electric vehicles is their zero-emissions powertrain. In order...
A team of engineers at the University of California at San Diego have discovered that it’s not worth the time, money, and effort to wash solar panels. Researchers in California discovered that solar panels that had not been rained on...
Interested in wind power? Well, you can't just slap a wind turbine anywhere. What about off-shore where no one will see them? You can't put them in cities, and of course there are some places where there just isn't enough...
When a vehicle is seen as an extension of your being, people start to judge you. Whether you drive a Tesla Model S or a Hummer H3, someone will have something to say about it, but don't call the...
Depending on who you ask, Tesla Motors' great success in the last few years is either very encouraging or something of an object of suspicion. Starting from its initial public offering of $19/shr in July 2010, TSLA stock has since...