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Monday, August 4th, 2008Monash University researchers have come up with a new Goretex fuel cell design that could make hybrid cars much cheaper and more reliable. The researchers have developed an air electrode conisisting of an extremely thin layer (0.4 of a micron) of highly conductive plastic is deposited on Goretex, the popular outdoor and sporting goods [...]
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EEStor Update: 3rd party certification of key production milestones and chemical purity
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008EEStor has announced that they have achieved 3rd party certification of production milestones and the enhancement of its chemical purification. EEStor, who have been developing an ultracapacitor that they say will be much longer lasting and more powerful than current batteries, are saying that the 3rd party certification shows that they are well on [...]
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Tesla #6 gets a real world awakening
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008tesla
I couldn’t resist posting this. Â Just a couple of hours of taking delivery of his brand new Tesla, the owner (unnamed) got himself in an accident! A minor fender bender - nobody was injured, but boy, that’s gotta hurt. So far, only about 10 of the $109,000 Tesla electric cars have [...]
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Canada’s National Post test drives the 2008 BMW Hydrogen 7
Monday, July 28th, 2008and drinks from its tailpipe. Which, David Booth - the reporter, was happy to announce, tasted just like water, because that’s what hydrogen fueled cars produce.
David Booth is actually drinking ‘exhaust’ from the tailpipe of the BMW Hydrogen 7, which emits only water. Cliff Spicer for National Post
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Thermoelectrics can help your car generate electricity from its tailpipe
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Researchers at Ohio State have have invented a new materials that could help cars become more fuel efficient by converting the heat produced by the engine into electricity. The concept of producing electricity from heat, called themoelectrics, has been around for awhile, but the researchers, led by Joseph Heremans and Vladimir Jovovic [...]
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Finland company to build Fisker Karma plugin hybrid
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Autoweek is reporting that Valmet Automotive, a Finnish company will start manufacturing the Fisker Karma plugin hybrid four door sports car beginning late 2009. Â Â They expect to make about 15,000 hybrids per year. Â Â The Karma claims an electric only range of 50 miles, and a total range of over 350 miles. Â They [...]
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Toyota to produce Prius instead of SUV’s at its new US plant
Thursday, July 10th, 2008According to Reuters, Toyota is changing over the production line from their new plant to be built in Mississippi from SUV’s to the Prius. The new plant, which was orginally scheduled to start making Tundra’s and Sequoia SUVs in 2010 will be switched over to the Prius - as a result of the [...]
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EEStor news due out soon?
Sunday, July 6th, 2008I spotted an article about Zenn Motors in the Calgary Herald that says that EEStor Inc, the maker of ultracapacitors that supposedly will make electrochemical batteries obsolete, is expected to release the results of independent third-party testing of its ultracapacitors sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’ll be watching and waiting.
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The Chicago Tribune road tests the 2008 Hybrid Highlander
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Head on over to ChicagoTribune.com for a road test of the 2008 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. The non-hybrid version of the Highlander gets 18/24 mpg city/highway, but the hybrid version gets 27/25 city/highway. In their road tests, the reviewers were able to keep their Highlander in battery mode at speeds up [...]
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Hydrogen fuel pump installed at LA gas station
Saturday, June 28th, 2008California’s first retail hydrogen station opened on Thursday. The Shell station, which is currently charging $4.59 per gallon of regular gas, just installed a new bright blue hydrogen fuel pump to help fuel the 300 or so hydrogen powered cars that are currently or about to be on the road in California.
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