If you think about it carefully, gas stations and electric vehicle charging stations are very similar in their development over time. Automobile infrastructure history is repeating itself.
We've all heard the complaints about electric vehicles, “They have limited range,” and...
According to a report released earlier this week by the renewable energy research firm Clean Edge, renewable sources supplied much greater amounts of energy in 2012, but the high costs of solar photovoltaic panels prevented the industry from increasing...
Using solar energy during the night is now becoming possible thanks to new research published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Scientists have developed a method that uses high-tech combination of paraffin wax and sand, which allows storing of...
Scientists from Mayo Clinic in Arizona released a report which indicates that driving a hybrid or electric car does not influence the functions of implanted cardiac devices.
The researchers state that there is no existing proof that electric vehicles might...
China, India, and Russia are promoting the use of fast reactors in order to break down stores of nuclear waste.
Last week at a global conference sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), India and Russia discussed large demonstration...
Earlier this week, Japan announced that they were able to extract the so-called "flammable ice" gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits. Since the country is one of the biggest importers of gas, exploring such resource could be the key...
A new model developed by the British Antarctic Survey in collaboration with various international contributors, gives the opportunity to everyone to observe what happens beneath the ice cover in Antarctica.
The model called Bedmap2, uses cartographic data, radio echo sounding measurements,...
The federal government is likely receive a fund of $984 billion, as it was announced earlier this week by the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The fund will be allocated for the period between March and September 2013,...
Founded in 2007, Fisker Automotive has had a hard time getting up to speed, and today one of the founders, Henrik Fisker, resigns his post as executive chairman.
What seemed to start out as a good idea, an electric vehicle...
![Lithium-Air [LiO2] Solid State Battery Technology - 5x Density by 2025?](https://i0.wp.com/www.greenoptimistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Li-air-solidstate.jpg?resize=681%2C386&ssl=1 "Toyota’s Next-Gen LiO2 Battery Five Times Better Than Li-Ion")
Nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries have their advantages, but Toyota's next-generation solid state and LiO2 battery technology could be set to overtake them.
Toyota doesn't really have much of a penchant for Li-ion battery technology, instead trusting its...
