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Student-built electric car sets land speed record at Salt Flats
(PhysOrg.com) -- An electric car designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class, averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Chilean car shines in solar auto competition
Latin America's first big solar car competition has a winner: a Chilean entry named Intikalpa sped to success in the Atacama Solar Challenge.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Paris launches world-first electric car-share scheme
Self-service electric cars appeared on the streets of Paris Sunday, as a French group launched a public car-hire scheme modelled on the capital's popular bicycle-sharing system and designed to become the world's ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 02, 2011 |
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GE, Nissan join hands on electric cars
General Electric and Nissan, maker of the all-electric Nissan Leaf, said Friday they will team up over the next two years to explore ways to promote the use of electric vehicles.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 01, 2011 |
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'Perfect plastic' created
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Leeds and Durham University have solved a long-standing problem that could revolutionize the way new plastics are developed.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Electromobility: new components going for a test run
The future belongs to electrical cars – that’s what most experts think. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved. This is the reason why researchers at 33 Fraunhofer ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Toyota three-wheeler does 80.3 mph on compressed air
(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota Industries intends to apply for a Guiness World record for the fastest car driven by a compressed-air engine, after its Ku:Rin, as the vehicle is called, reached 129.2km/h (80.3 mph)on ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 24, 2011 |
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Revolutionary conducting polymer enables silicon use as next generation of lithium-ion battery anodes
Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, in smart phones, laptops, an array of other consumer electronics, and the newest electric cars. Good as they are, they could be much better, especially when it comes to ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Autonomous car navigates the streets of Berlin
(PhysOrg.com) -- German researchers from Freie Universitat Berlin traveled 80 km in total as passengers during a test drive of their autonomous car "MadeInGermany" over the weekend.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Japanese scientists explore electric roads for EVs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Masahiro Hanazawa of Toyota Central R&D Labs and Takashi Ohira from Toyohashi University are working on a solution for avoiding battery recharge headaches in powering electric cars. They are ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Car-sharing introducing Canadians to electric vehicles
In a Montreal parking lot, Jean-Francois Beauchamp unhooks a power cable from his loaner car and cheerfully drives away, an enthusiastic user of a new service that is finding fans in equal measure among commuters ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Earth's rarest metals ranked in supply risk list
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new list published by the British Geological Survey, or BGS, ranks 52 of Earth's elements based on their risk of supply disruption. Andrew Bloodworth, from BGS, points out that the likeli ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Carmakers turn to green energy for assembly plants
Wind turbines and solar panels are fast becoming familiar sights at car assembly plants as automakers slash carbon emissions not only of the models they produce, but along the whole production chain.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 14, 2011 |
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'Connected' cars new buzzword at IAA fair
Following smartphones and tablet computers, motorists look set to be the next big market for connected devices as automakers wow crowds with the latest Internet-enabled models at the IAA motor show.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Ford shows new Evos concept car at Frankfurt show
Ford Motor Co. is giving a hint of what forthcoming models will look like with its Evos concept car, a streamlined four-seater with slender LED headlights and a high front grille.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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