Until now many of us know about Samsung's environment friendly phone, Blue Earth. It is made of recycled plastic, and the difference between it and other devices is that it can recharge itself, as it is equipped with solar panels.
Reva Electric Car Company has started the development of the second model after the small Reva. The new car will be on the market this year and the company has big plan to "conquer" new markets overseas.
As scientists say nowadays that we are on a point of no return with global warming, they are also giving us solutions that could patch the problem and bring us to the pre-industrial climate.
Saturn Aura is going to be the first hybrid GM is launching on the US market, as a direct competitor for Toyota Prius. Only in 2006, Toyota sold 107,000 Prius units, creating a big popularity of the hybrid.
MIT engineers have been developing and are now testing an upgrade to the old bicycle that can be easily installed and that can transform your foot-powered 2-wheeler into a full-electric vehicle (or hybrid, if you use your own force).
Tazzari Group developed a simple but in the same time elegant electric vehicle Tazzari Zero EV. The vehicle wants to qualify as a sports-car for the city, being very light, with high torques and fully recyclable.
An african inventor, by his name Cedrick Ngalande, has invented a device called the Green Erg, that could harness the pulling force of a person or moving vehicle, and convert some of it into electricity. Though I don't see his invention any soon on any European or US market, it seems some say that it will have a great success in Africa, there where you have to make electricity out of anything.
Who said a car has to be electric to be called a "hybrid"? Artemis Intelligent Power has converted a BMW 530i to mechanically capture the energy resulted from braking (aka "regenerative braking"), and use it in an electrically-hybridized car fashion.
Germans have introduced this week a wearable fuel cell which is based on the award-winning unipolar stack technology design. Called Jenny 600S, the fuel cell delivers 25W for up to 20h. Jenny 600S uses replaceable liquid methanol fuel cartridges and can be worn in a vest.
I was saying the other year that Denmark is powered mostly by its wind farms, and that the energy generated by these wind farms is in excess. They want to build an electric car network that would operate across the country and that would use the excess energy and transport it to propel people from here to there, cheaply and in an environmentally friendly fashion.
