Panasonic's new start-stop battery can be connected in parallel with a vehicle's lead-acid battery, allowing it to provide power to the vehicle when at a stop.
Depending on how big of a battery that you have in a conventional vehicle, you might be able...
EV parking spaces in New York are an important spot that has to be touched in order to promote the usage of clean motoring in the city and the state, Bloomberg thinks.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been...
Yo-Avto, the maker of the Yo-Mobil hasn't sold a single unit. Russia's first hybrid vehicle, and those who have pre-ordered theirs, will have to wait.
Here in the United States, mention hybrid and Prius immediately comes to mind. Actually, do this...
"Except for the upper stage of a rocket, hydrogen makes no sense," Elon Musk, the parent of the battery-powered Roadster and Model S said in an e-mail interview to ScienceFriday.
If there is anyone to ask about electric vehicles, it...
Researchers at the University of California recently developed a silicon nanowire battery that could easily solve the range and recharging issues of electric vehicles.
If there's one problem with electric vehicles, it's the battery. Actually, the problem isn't the battery, but...
An international team of researchers from Russia, Spain, Belgium, the U.K. and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has discovered groundbreaking applications of superconductivity. The study appeared in Nature Communications last week.
They were able to establish...
A new class of materials, known as layered oxide heterostructures, made by stacking single atomic layers of oxides, can be used to create a brand new kind of ultra-thin, super-efficient solar cells.
Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology, together...
Renewable energy and global emission targets are under a serious threat as the global shale oil industry is expanding with an incredible speed. According to a new report by consultancy firm PwC, by 2035 shale oil could account for...
Outdoor air pollution in India is one of the biggest threats to the nation. Analysis presented by the Boston-based Health Effect Institute in New Delhi released figures that indicate an increase of more than six times over the past decade.
Aaron...
The crust of the Moon contains nearly 1 million metric tons of Helium 3. This should be sufficient to provide electricity to the US for a thousand years.
There is no doubt that our planet is in a huge energy...
