BMW is partnering with Chinese company Brilliance to manufacture and sell electric vehicles in China under a new brand, Zinoro.
The world's fastest growing car market is in China, which makes manufacturing and selling vehicles there a good prospect. BMW...
The ability to dissociate light into fundamental colors could make today's solar panels 50 percent efficient. If you compare this figure to the 20 percent efficiency found in many solar cells on the market, that's a game-changer.
Harry Atwater, a...
An old World War II bunker used for sheltering 30,000 people in Hamburg is going to be transformed into an energy-generating facility that will provide heat for 3,000 homes and electricity for 1,000, reports Inhabitat.
A large solar array has...
A new nano-filter powered by sunlight can clean large bodies of water from antibiotics and carcinogens. The device, developed by the University of Cincinnati, is much more effective than the activated carbon that's currently being used for this purpose.
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Believe it or not, even though gasoline is the fuel on whose basis speed tickets are being issued nowadays, the first speeding offense was done in an electric car... 114 years ago, on May 20, in New York.
Jacob German,...
Mention Elon Musk, and you probably have no trouble at all recalling what he's best known for, but is it Tesla Motors or SolarCity?
The fact is, both of the above would be correct answers, and don't forget Zip2, PayPal...
There is nothing in New York City more quintessential than the yellow NYC taxi fleet. This year on Earth Day, April 22nd, the Nissan Leaf will begin service as an emissions-free taxi.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg arrived at the Rockefeller Center...
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The earth receives more energy from the sun than we can ever use, 80% of that in the ocean. Lockheed Martin's Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion power plant aims to put some of that energy to use.
Ocean Thermal Energy...
Cooling or heating an electric car's cabin can prove a difficult task from an energy efficiency standpoint. To tackle this issue, MIT researchers and Ford have developed a "thermal battery" system that's far more advanced than what car makers...
IBM Researchers have built a low-cost prototype solar dish that produces electricity and generates heat for desalination or cooling. IBM got the idea for the solar dish from the water cooling technology used in its high-end computers.
The Swiss Commission...
