Our guess is that we are bound to see every car company on the market coming up with an electric vehicle or at least a hybrid one sooner or later. We've reached this conclusion after seeing big names like Toyota, Kia and Jaguar announcing environmentally-friendly cars to reach out their fans and customers worldwide. Now it's time for Aston Martin to take its turn and show us what they've got: apparently an electric version of the Cygnet city car â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“ the company's first EV.
Both solar cells and plants process sunlight one way or the other, but there's a catch: one of them is more efficient. Guided by common sense, we'd say that the plants' billions of years of "experience" in capturing and storing energy will win. Is it so?
The breakthrough comes from the chemical engineer Patrick Pinhero at the University of Missouri, who claims his solar panels are way better than those on the market now: up to 90% more efficiency.
You know you should hate the 100-watt light bulb, because it's not good for the planet, but you cannot help but love the way it warms your room on a dark winter night. The Switch Lighting Company now allows you to not feel guilty about this preference, by creating the first LED to match a 100-watt bulb.
Remember Justin Capra, the Romanian inventor of the jetpack? Well's he's done it again. Now, his ingenuity inspired him to build a small car that has a fuel efficiency of 784 miles per gallon! How about that?
In the process of making biofuel, crops have to first be disintegrated into sugars, which is often a puzzling step, since it requires a lot of time and is not always efficient. Agrivida, a company located near Boston, is experimenting how to reverse engineer plants so they simply self-destruct into simpler elements quicker and better, to yield cheaper and more biofuel.
It was almost impossible that zee Russians don't want to have a piece of the big hybrid car industry pie. Yo-Auto, a joint venture between truck maker Yarovit and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim group, has started pre-selling the Yo-mobile, an ultra-cheap hybrid car designed with regular people in mind.
Since the first electric car appeared, it was a matter of time before the world's first electric racing car stepped up on the market. With the help of two French companies â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“ FCI and Formulec, the dream of many car lovers or Formula One fans has been made possible: to see a full electric racing car matching regular petrol vehicles on the tracks.
Looks like GM is going to go greener starting with the end of this summer, as it has signed an agreement with DTE Energy that will put 512 kW of solar power onto six acres located at the south of the Detroit-Hamtramck facility. The power will feed some 54,750 energy-hungry Volt plug-in hybrids per year.
Not even a powerful earthquake as the one that hit Japan a couple of months ago could stop the release of the "Prius Alpha" hybrid minivan from Toyota. The car is something new for the company because it's the first hybrid to have a lithium-ion rechargeable battery as the main battery and it's somewhat of a success for the green industry already, since Toyota chose fuel efficiency over size.
