Eindhoven University of Technology Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:50:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Stella Lux: Solar Powered Family Car Made by Dutch Students https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-solar-car/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-solar-car/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:50:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55507 Stella Lux, a new and improved family-sized car by a team of Dutch students, is not only entirely powered by solar, but it can even generate extra power just in case. As the countdown to this year’s World Solar Challenge gets lower and lower, teams from all over the globe begin to show off their […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-solar-car/feed/ 0 55507 “The Stella” is a 500-mile Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-500-mile-solar-powered-electric-vehicle-20140924/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-500-mile-solar-powered-electric-vehicle-20140924/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:53:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49335 It might seem like the most obvious clean-transportation solution, combining solar power and electric vehicles, but we have not seen much on this front, at least, not until now. True, some electric vehicle owners have solar power installations on their rooftops, and even some chargers on the Tesla Supercharger network are solar powered. Still, even […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-500-mile-solar-powered-electric-vehicle-20140924/feed/ 0 49335 Air-Purifying Concrete Paving Stones Remove Nitrogen Oxides from Vehicle Emissions https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-purifying-concrete-paving-stones-20100707/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-purifying-concrete-paving-stones-20100707/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:12:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8366 Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands claim to have invented a new type of paving material that actually removes some pollutants from the air as vehicles travel over the surface. Combined with concrete or normal asphalt, the new material is able to eliminate 25% to 45% of nitrogen oxides from vehicle gases.

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