Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high.
Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
February 1, 2010 – 8:11 am
Shai Agassi closed a deal, financing his company Better Place, two days before the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. They closed at $350 million, pricing the firm at $1.25 billion.
Agassi became inspired to enter the electric car market at the World Economic Forum meeting three years ago, when he left software [...]
November 9, 2009 – 1:28 pm
“You can have a really fuel-efficient, dirty vehicle and a really clean, not-so-fuel-efficient vehicle,” says Karl Simon, a director of compliance and innovation for the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. “It really is pretty wide open from a technical perspective.”
So-called fuel economy indeed is linked to emissions; however it is not the only [...]
October 28, 2009 – 3:15 pm
A U.S. firm, California-based, Better Place, is building electric car chargers, in Jerusalem of all places and has installed a network in Tel Aviv.
By 2011, roughly 100 charging stations will be found on the streets of Jerusalem. In the same year Israel plans to have electric cars available for mass consumption. Twenty of the [...]
October 16, 2009 – 5:41 pm
The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid. It is touted as the most
advanced minivan ever created. You can put either gasoline it, or hydrogen, doesn’t matter which. (Different tanks. Can’t mix gasoline and hydrogen in the same tank. Bad news.) It runs on both. If you fill it with hydrogen, it becomes a zero-emissions vehicle, with [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:19 pm
If you remember New Energy Technologies and their electricity generating speed bump, you may now rest assured that they’re getting some help. They’d probably see it as competition, but Israeli firm Innowattech has successfully tested its own method of generating electricity from road traffic.
The test took place on a 10 meter stretch of Highway [...]
September 18, 2009 – 10:12 pm
Never heard of a Fisker Karma before? That’s because it’s a new startup company, and their cars haven’t hit the road yet. It is a luxury sedan, with a price tag close to $90,000. Doable by the rich, and with only its very first model coming out next year, bound to decrease in price as [...]
September 6, 2009 – 7:48 pm
It’s called the “Motion Power Energy Harvester,” and before even reading about this thing, I can bet I know the principles of its operation. Speed bumps are designed to slow you down, right? Of course right. How they work now is that you’re supposed to hit your break before you go over the bump so [...]
September 3, 2009 – 11:20 am
We know, we know, electric cars use too much rare earth metals. We just wrote about it below. But that’s not going to stop us from covering the next ultra cool electric triple hybrid diesel plugin etc. tour de force vehicle.
That’s just what we need. All these companies coming out with zero emission stuff that [...]
September 3, 2009 – 10:31 am
Every time we come up with a solution to some environmental problem, we end up causing another one. The batteries that run both hybrids and electric cars? They contain rare elements known as heavy earths, and these metals are extremely hard to come by. If you check out the periodic table here, three of the [...]
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