electric car industry Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Discovery Could Make Platinum Fuel Cells Much More Durable https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4494 Engineering assistant prof. Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that making the fuel cells from very small platinum nanoparticles decreases their lifetime. Making them bigger is, though, better.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/feed/ 0 4494 Arab Oil Company Acquires 4% of Tesla Motors https://www.greenoptimistic.com/aabar-investments-tesla-motors-20090714/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/aabar-investments-tesla-motors-20090714/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:54:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4048 I don't want to cross the decent border of believing in a conspiracy theory, but when the oil business is threatened these days, it's normal that oil magnates wouldn't sit back and watch electric cars and alternative energy providers take their piece of meat from right in front of them.

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