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To date, every single data center Apple owns uses 100% renewable energy – and the company continues to explore and invest in ways to raise the bar for clean energy. Not a company to rest on its laurels, Apple is...
The new line of 2013 Zero Motorcycles was accompanied by a press release touting the military's involvement with the development of this unique electric vehicle. According to Zero, they “made the decision to incorporate into our 2013 MX, FX and...
A little word association to start the day: Electric Vehicle – Clean, Expensive, Limited Range. Very good. Electric Airplane – ummmm, Slow? If you're thinking of a solar electric airplane that recently flew across the US and plans to circumnavigate...
If two companies are working toward the same goal, in this case hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, then what better idea than to come together to achieve it together? Some companies choose to go it alone, such as Tesla Motors and...
New type of mobile energy storage system based on Lithium-ion batteries, has the potential to store 500 kilowatt-hour of excess wind power, which otherwise would be lost. The developers and researchers in the Pacific Northwest are currently testing the new...
As many of you already know, Tesla Motors is the subject of a concerted action from the car dealer associations throughout the U.S., who want to stop the all-US and all-electric car company sell the greatest car of all...
Last weekend, John Cook of SkepticalScience gave a talk at the Climate Action Summit during which he bluntly stated the planet’s temperatures are rising at a rate of 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations worth of heat each second. Dramatic? Yes....
Currently, the best rechargeable battery technology for electric vehicles is the lithium-ion battery pack, but concerns over safety are keeping sales numbers down. The development and commercialization of the lithium-ion battery pack has been a boon to any number of...
Recently, BMW announced its vision for the future of electric vehicles that, in the next five years or so, we could see double the range. In the 1950s, transportation prognosticators envisioned cities in the sky and flying cars. Here we...
Electronic devices continue to miniaturize, but the batteries that power them haven't kept pace. That could all change with a 3D-printed micro-battery recently developed at Harvard. When I first looked at the video, it almost looked like any other 3D...