When the Ford hybrid vehicle lineup hit the market last year, including the Ford C-Max and Fusion Hybrids and Lincoln MKZ hybrid, drivers flocked to fuel economy claims as high as 47mpg, and up to 108mpg-e in the case...
Omer Haciomeroglu, a student from Sweden's Umea Institute of Design, engineered a robot, which can demolish buildings, recycle and separate waste concrete, while reducing pollution and saving energy. The technology was granted with the 2013 International Design Excellence Award...
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has developed an innovative next generation lithium-ion battery -- a promising new platform for creating more durable, lightweight and efficient lithium-ion (Li-ion) power.
Working with AFOSR, Dr. Jim Tour and his research...
Michael Gratzel, the inventor of organic solar cells and a professor at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) in Switzerland is hitting headlines again with the latest achievement in the field of organic photovoltaics: an efficiency figure of 15...
JB Straubel, Tesla's CTO and co-founder, said recently that the company is pushing the speed limit on battery supercharging to where swapping isn't practically needed anymore - the 5-minute territory, nowadays reserved only to gasoline stations.
Back in autumn last...
![GM EV1 [R] and Silver Streak [L] AKA The EV2](https://i0.wp.com/www.greenoptimistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ev-2-comparo.jpg?resize=620%2C216&ssl=1 "Another GM EV1 Reborn, John Wayland’s “Silver Streak”")
Dr. Frankenstein was just working with the wrong materials. After all, wouldn't a lightning bolt be more useful bringing an electric vehicle, like the GM EV1, back to life?
While the majority of the GM EV1, 96% or more, some...
According to some detractors, renewable energy and efficiency programs cost jobs and would be bad for the economy. This is exactly the kind of bureaucratic head-in-the-ground thinking that keeps solar power programs, and others, on hold here in the...
It is a well-known fact that people from the Western part of Europe tend to complain about the weather slightly more than others. But as the long anticipated summer finally arrived to most parts of the continent, the use...
Researchers from University of Edinburgh established that free market platforms such as the European Climate Exchange (ECX) provide an efficient way to combat climate change. The study published in the International Journal of the Economics of Business suggests that...
I'm so pissed off after what I've seen today. I've been blogging about alternative energy, clean cars and environmental awareness in the last 5 years, and still never had the money to buy an actual Prius - the most...
