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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008I couldn’t resist posting this. 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 [...]
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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. They expect to make about 15,000 hybrids per year. The Karma claims an electric only range of 50 miles, and a total range of over 350 miles. They say that [...]
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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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Dyson engineers working on electric car designs
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Sir James Dyson, inventor of those cool looking Dyson bagless vacuum cleaners you’ve probably seen advertised on TV , has his engineers working on developing a lightweight powerful electric motor that could greatly expand the range of electric cars. Dyson sees his cars powered by solar panels on the roof of the cars or on [...]
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Cyclone Power Technologies clean, green waste heat engine
Sunday, June 15th, 2008EngineeringTV has a couple of video interviews and demos with Harry Schoel, whose company Cyclone Power has developed a self-starting engine called a WHE (waste heat engine) that operates in a low pressure, low temperature range. What this means is that the Cyclone Power WHE can run on waste heat - think the exhaust [...]
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