Location: Tokyo, Japan
By most accounts, Nissan missed the ball on hybrids. Today, the company has a single hybrid car available to consumers, the Nissan Altima Hybrid, but it’s only offered in eight states. But the company is looking very determined to make up...
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Location: Tohoku, Japan
Professor Shin-ichi Orimo the Institute for Material Research of Tohoku University has developed in collaboration with Japan Steel Works a reservoir the size of a box of matches could release up to 9 liters of hydrogen.
Hydrogen is...
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Location: Gesellschaft, Germany
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems Research and Innovation (ISI)
have developed two scenarios for what will define the development of electric
vehicles by 2050.
The first scenario, said dominance of the market,...
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Location: New York, United States
Hertz has launched Connect by Hertz, the first global car sharing club
offered by an international car rental company. The move puts pressure on Zipcar,
currently the leader in self-service pay-as-you-go car rental services. After
eight...
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Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Agricultural equipment maker New Holland will be unveiling what it claims is the first fuel cell-powered tractor at a French trade show in February. The tractor is based on the existing T6000 unit with a hydrogen fuel cell electric drive system...
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
Although it’s being billed as Japan’s first solar powered cargo ship the amount of renewable energy onboard is so small that I frankly find it laughable. Although the Auriga Leader, a freighter capable of carrying 6,400 automobiles,...
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Location: California, United States
It seems that a new flying vehicle pops up every few months these days. Most recently, we've taken a look at the Biofueled Skycar and the flying Ferrari from longtime flying car proponent Moller. Now we have the SkyBike, designed by a California...
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Location: Detroit, United States
Mercedes BlueZERO: One Body, Three Drivetrains
Mercedes has given us more information about its BlueZERO trio of concept cars. I'll be able to see it in person in Detroit in January, but in the meantime, here's what we know about it: A single...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Fuel cells are energy converters that generate electricity and heat from hydrogen or fuel rich in this element. The principal advantages of this technology are high conversion efficiencies and, for batteries run on hydrogen, a lack of direct...
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Location: Deutschland, Germany
BMW stole a march on some more ballyhooed electric-car programs by releasing an electric version of its Mini at the end of 2008. Where most of its competitors are engineering electric cars from scratch, the German automaker was able to adapt an...
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Location: Summerville, United States
Incorporating a direct-injection hydrogen combustion engine, the concept forklift truck lifts up to a 3-ton load. The vehicle does not give off any emissions, as the hydrogen-powered engine converts fuel into water vapor. The truck is based on the...
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Location: New York, United States
While car manufacturers continue to dabble with fossil fuel alternatives through the electricity-supported Prius and the hydrogen-powered Clarity, a team of researchers working out of the University of Nevada would perhaps prefer if the likes of...
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Location: Baijing, China
The euphoniously named Chinese company Guon Mengguli Corporation (MGL) has partnered with tire behemoth Michelin in developing a new, in-wheel electric powertrain. Know as Active Wheel, the first commercial applications of the product are being...
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Location: MIT, United States
The research center (Science refers first of all the actions undertaken to
produce and ...) of engineering (engineering means all functions from design and
studies to responsibility for the ...) in biochemistry from MIT has just made
public...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,110 8th St.,Troy, NY 12180-3590, United States
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, led by
physicist Shawn Lin Yu, demonstrated the effectiveness of a new coating of solar
cells which greatly improves the absorption (In optical absorption refers the
process...
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Location: 8-1 Honcho, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0188, Japan, Japan
The Japanese manufacturer Honda has presented at Los Angeles (Los Angeles is
a city of the United States located in Southern California on the Pacific coast.
... The Americans) technology (The word has two meanings technology partner :)...
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Location: Madrid, Spain
Plugging the car to the grid like a microwave is not so far happened. Oil is
increasingly expensive and will be depleted in 50 years, but the industry
needs to continue producing vehicles. They believe the majors in the
automobile...
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Location: New hampshire, United States
Dale Van Cor, an inventor from New Hampshire, U.S., has submitted his last
Ingenuity, the train symbiotic, during the Conference on Storage and
Application of Electric Power of San Francisco.
The system uses two motors, one...
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Location: Tokio, Japan
Abstract:
(EN) A high fuel consumption efficiency hybrid car is realized by the control
system, on which at least a hybrid engine which includes at least a first
rotating electric machine which determines the rotational...
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Location: Mosko, Russian Federation
How does this work
Let us compare the most ordinary car with a conventional internal combustion
engines and electric. The criteria for evaluation will choose two of the most
common and, if you want meaningful:
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