In order to decrease their carbon footprint and to raise the public awareness that they're actually doing something for the environment besides producing electric cars, Renault has decided to install a 60 MW solar array on its centers in several locations from France.
Well... when the only remaining issue before producing electric cars isn't what battery they should use or what the charging technology will be, then for Ford it's where will they put the charging socket to satisfy most of the customers in Europe and the U.S.
Not only one time had ethanol been tested as a reliable source of hydrogen. Now, a multi-national team of scientists from Spain, Scotland and New Zealand have devised a method to use ethanol and sunlight to extract hydrogen for use in fuel cells to generate electricity.
When you think about air pollution, the first thing popping into your head is probably carbon dioxide, and that is because i's the most common pollutant. CO2 is actually less powerful than the trio formed by nitrogen dioxide (NO2),...
The result of a partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a new fuel cell technology could revolutionize the future of power sources, both commercial and military.
People are gradually losing interest in fossil fuels, because in a not so faraway time there may not be any fossil fuels to take interest in first of all. Then, there are the gas prices, the energy security issue and the gas emissions that could ruin everything.
While the green technology might still be a new thing for many, something our mind needs to get adjusted with, some other people already understood that this is their future. Or at least that's what students from 2 high schools in New York proved last week at the Union Square Greenmarket, when they showed up with a couple of green solar powered ovens.
24M, a spin-off from battery maker A123 has published a paper which describes a new type of battery that would outperform any existing lithium ion unit designed for electric vehicles. Today's lithium batteries are bulky and heavy just because there's a lot of extra material in them that doesn't have anything with the storage of energy, but merely with supporting the active "ingredients."
If you haven't been watching the news for the past few years, there's a war going on in the world of energy. While Arab Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the 19th richest person in the world and one of the ones who make a huge profit from oil, said to CNN he's worried about the prices of oil going up, Mark M. Little from GE tells Bloomberg that in 3 to 5 years we'll be able to produce electricity from solar panels for as little as 15 cents/kW, far less than by using oil.
Ford is not only planning on putting batteries and electric drivetrains in the cars, but also wants to re-think the whole purpose of the car. As far as we know it, a car serves mainly for the transport of people or goods. Ford is thinking further, about how this transportation is being done: is it safe enough, does it guide you well enough in traffic?
