The company Greentomatocars signed a memorandum of understanding to supply 50 electric taxi vehicles from the manufacturer BYD to London. According to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson: “Every year [London’s] fleet is getting cleaner, making our city an even more attractive place to live, work and visit. Encouraging many more electric vehicles is a key part … [continued]
Apart from major appliances that you need to wash clothes, preserve food, and heat water, you may want to stay connected to the internet and keep your phones/tablet PC charged during power outages. This article is primarily about long power outages caused by hurricanes that last days or even … [continued]
Ygrene Energy Fund, a provider of clean energy finance projects, has announced that Invest Atlanta, the economic development authority of Atlanta, voted to release $200 million of energy retfrofit funds via the Clean Energy Atlanta program. These funds will be available to both multi-family residential building owners and commercial ones as well. The program is expected to create up … [continued]
Damen Shipyards, a Netherlands-based company, has launched its first diesel-electric hybrid tugboat. It is the ASD Tug 2810 Hybrid. Iskes Towing and Salvage will be the launching customer (the first customer to use it). The signing ceremony took place yesterday (October 23), at Offshore Energy in Amsterdam. Damen Shipyards … [continued]
The United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has approved the construction of 19 wind turbines at a wind farm in Cheshire, which is a county in North West England. The wind farm is to be constructed for Peel Energy near Frodsham, and it has an electricity … [continued]
In 2009, Kepler Motors announced a hybrid electric supercar that would offer a combined 800 HP. At the time, it was to be powered by Ford’s new 3.5-litre EcoBoost engine and a pair of electric motors. The car is called the Kepler Motion hybrid. Now, 3 years later, Kepler … [continued]
The point of this article is to suggest ways in which you can reduce the environmental impact of your electronics by simply making them last longer. Portable electronics may be small, but in some homes they can still contribute more to the e-waste than even large appliances because they last … [continued]
LeafLink is a smart phone app which enables you to control your Nissan Leaf in multiple ways. It enables you to control the A/C so it can cool shortly before you go out to get in it (so that you are not burnt by scorching summer heat). You can also … [continued]
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has awarded $2 million to eight companies, it announced this week. Each company received $250,000 to facilitate the development of working prototypes of a variety of energy storage technologies. The recipients are all members of the NY Battery and Energy Storage … [continued]
E-Moss is testing an electric bus that was equipped with a wireless charger, It is usually electric cars that are equipped with these, but buses could also benefit too. The type of charger the bus is equipped with is an induction charger. Induction chargers operate by using inductors to … [continued]
