If you've gotten used to seeing Bill Gates in the role of Microsoft CEO, then as the image of his foundation fighting for poverty alleviation, now it's time to see him entering the energy business. Not kind of energy...
Honda wants to reaffirm its position in the hybrid vehicle business by planning a kind of hybrid that nobody has ever seen before. The Japanese car manufacturer wants to put two electric motors in the rear, and one in...
Nissan Leaf is already one of the most popular electric cars on the planet. Now the company moves to the next technological level, replacing the wires with a wireless system in order to charge the batteries.
Nissan has begun demonstrating...
Principle Power, Inc. (Seattle-based offshore wind energy developer) in collaboration with Energias de Portugal ( a Portuguese utility) have successfully installed a full-scale 2-megawatt WindFloat off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal.
The WindFloat project is the world's first offshore wind...
The recently revealed map, released by the Geothermal Laboratory of Southern Methodist University, shows once more that massive resources of potential energy lie hidden beneath America. After years of development, carried out with funding from Google, the newly revealed...
A paper published recently in Nature Climate Change reveals that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has not yielded a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, as did the other crises, like the oil-related ones in 1973 and 1979. Instead, the...
Japan's auto giant Nissan Motor is officially the owner of the trophy for the "Car of the Year Japan" at the Tokyo Motor Show for its Leaf electric model. According to its makers, this is the first time when...
A new fuel cell that uses not only pure hydrogen to generate electricity has been discovered by Eric Wachsman, an engineering professor at the University of Maryland. It could be used in applications ranging from laptops to powering entire...
Although I never believed in three-wheeled vehicles, there were times in my life when I thought we'd need just this kind of cars to get through our ever-busier cities and parking lots. An electric three-wheeler could have been, from...
Japan's robot venture Kowa Tmsuk has unveiled its foldable robot scooter controlled by a smart phone at the Tokyo Motor Show, on December 1, 2011. Dubbed Kobot, the three-wheel scooter features collapsible and extensible mechanisms in order to reduce...
