The city of Shenzhen, China, has found a solution to tackle raising CO2 emissions, increasing population and urban sprawl. The city officials announced that the French firm- Vincent Callebaut Architects is commissioned to conduct the so-called Shenzhen Asian Cairn...
Here are some highlights of this great interview covering General Motors' long term view of vehicle electrification. General Motors chief technology officer John Lauckner and global electrification director Larry Nitz were both on hand this year at the Detroit...
Scientists at Stanford University established that installing new solar and wind farms in order to meet the increasing energy demands in the U.S. requires large amounts of fossil fuels, which reduce the environmental benefits of these renewable sources.
According to...
A study published in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change reveals that snow cover in the northern latitudes has been significantly reduced. In addition, due to the increase in temperatures, the seasonal variation of vegetation cover has changed...
For her school project, Sicily Kolbeck, a 12-year-old student at HoneyFern School in Marietta, Georgia built a small eco-friendly house based on the tiny house movement that is sweeping the United States.
Sicily discovered Deek Diedrickson’s Tiny Yellow House, Relaxhacks...
According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers poll, electrified vehicles will double market share by 2020.
This is fairly impressive, considering that hybrid electric vehicle technology has only just hit it's sweet-sixteen and only broke 3% market share last year.
Clearly, the...
While we were happy to note that fuel efficiency reached an all-time high last year, a recent study shows that driver habits cancel fuel efficiency improvements.
The overall fuel economy of the light vehicle fleet in the US may be...
Tesla Motors has teased us with the next model to come after the Model S, but the Tesla Model X is on the back burner, at least to the end of 2014. The prototype is, to say the least,...
Tesla Motors is finding some resistance to its expansion, where Minnesota dealers oppose Tesla Stores opening.
The current laws regarding automobile dealers prohibit automakers from opening their own dealerships to compete with franchise dealerships, but the Minnesota Automobile Dealer Association...
Over the past three years, Gridtential has been slowly developing a better lead acid battery by using chip and hard-disk drive manufacturing processes.
Gridtential used a grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate that its lead acid battery is far...
