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Technologies for the city of tomorrow -- Morgenstadt

A city that obtains its power from renewable resources, where electric cars move quietly along the streets and which emits almost no carbon dioxide - German federal minister Mrs. Schavan and the president of Fraunhofer, Hans-Jorg ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IROS gets earful on Google's self-driving cars (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lots of people now know about Google's self-driving car project. The latest stats find Google's fleet of robotic vehicles have done over 190,000 miles with only occasional human interventio ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Electromobile, together

Not buying cars but sharing them -- car-sharing is practiced in many major cities. And in the electromobile future, city dwellers will use lots of vehicles and infrastructure together -- that is the idea of Fraunhofer researchers. ...

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created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

T.25 City Car makes debut

Gordon Murray Design showed today for the first time its T.25 City Car at Oxford University as part of the Smith School's World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment validating a low-carbon approach to transportation. ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Electric car Think to be assembled in US in 2011: report

Think, an electric car maker based in Norway, will assemble its vehicles in the United States next year and hopes to roll out more than 20,000 units a year, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, quoting ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 10

Electric cars star at Frankfurt fair

The Frankfurt auto show hummed with talk of electric vehicles Wednesday but experts predict cars will roll on a variety of power sources for a while.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Fitting squares into circles

Particle filters are standard in the basic fittings for cars. Construction machines, city buses and garbage trucks must now follow suit. This can be achieved effectively and inexpensively thanks to a new material ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

NYPD Goes Green

(PhysOrg.com) -- New York City has a goal to reduce its overall carbon footprint. For Manhattan, the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases 30% by 2017. As part of this effort, the New York City Police Department ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 6 weblog