Hybrid cars seem to be making waves in the present with all the talk focused on their low fuel reserves and carbon emissions. Toyota’s Prius, the first mass produced hybrid, has set the bar high for hybrid vehicles with the United State’s EPA and CARB
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Car manufacturers are persistently optimizing the driving range for their electric cars. Like an answer to their prayers, SIM-DRIVE, a Japanese company, has made a breakthrough with its EV and even broken its own record. The SIM-WIL, a super fast electric
SIM-WIL sets the bar high for EV driving range at 218 miles Read More »
It will be hard to find a more interesting story than the one of a poor artisan in the neglected north east corner of India turning towards natural richness for fulfilling his basic needs with relative ease. Dodhi Pathak is a denizen of Nalbari district o
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The Energy Technology Institute, UK, just recently announced its intentions to build a next generation energy plant that will demonstrate how typical waste can be converted into electricity and heat. The estimated cost of the project is likely to stand ar
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We daily talk in an amazing tone about the wonders of nature, its beauty and the amazing gifts that it has to offer. But we tend to forget at times the amazing power that it can unleash and the sheer force of its wrath. An earthquake in a major city or at
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In late 2009, there was an article about a company called Opower, which blends data analysis with behavioral science for finding different ways to help utilities get their consumers to use as little electricity as possible. The system helped power compani
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It was almost 25 years ago, when Apple designer Hartmut Esslinger, took a break from work and played around with sleek Apple Computer boxes to rev up his imagination on a modern electric motorcycle. The final outcome was the Frog FZ750, popularly called R
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Although, it has been annoying challenge but engineers have been looking forward to build porous metal films for electrodes in batteries and catalysts in fuel cell that is highly conductive and avails more surface area for chemical reactions for transferr
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Jadav Payeng, an uneducated layman from Assam, a northeastern state of India, is a hero for his lonely effort to turn a flood-washed 550 hectors of sandbar into a thick forest. The sandbar that locates in the center of the Brahmaputra River in Assam has b
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For those who are not really familiar, drifting is a motorsport that involves purposefully oversteering a car for the sake of the show. It is apparently a serious sport and professionals from all across the planet compete each year in contests that are ge
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