BYD isn’t exactly known for beautiful, exciting electric vehicles. My impression of its electric cars has always been that it builds decent electric cars for a decent price. However, word on the EV street is that the company is looking to spice things up a bit with a plug-in hybrid … [continued]
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. The Tesla Model X, an electric crossover, was revealed a long time back. Reservations started in February 2012. Nonetheless, we just got word of a patent for which Tesla has filed an application, a patent for the crossover’s falcon-wing doors. Value Walk‘s Michelle Jones writes: Spotted by … [continued]
Have you ever wondered about the full story behind the Chevy Volt? If you have (or if you’re wondering about it now that I mention it), you can now find out the details thanks to a year of research conducted at General Motors by Presidio Graduate School Professor Dariush Rafinejad. Following his … [continued]
Bogota, Colombia now boasts the largest EV taxi service in South America. And BYD is the company that has proudly supplied the electric cars. 45 BYD e6 EVs have been put to work on the streets of Bogota, transporting people around cleanly, quietly, and very smoothly (a benefit of EVs … [continued]
Originally published on Bikocity. The Hammerhead is an interesting product for cyclists that is looking to get commercialized via crowdfunding site Dragon. There are a couple of particularly cool things about the Hammerhead. For one, connecting it with an iPhone or Android phone, you can get led along great bicycle … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Apple recently posted a job announcement for a thin films engineer for its mobile devices division, making some people think that the mobile giant might be looking to develop some solar-powered devices. Surely, if the price is right, extending the life of a person’s iPhone, iPad, … [continued]
Coda Automotive filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, with a subsequent shift to a focus on grid energy storage as Coda Energy. However, there are of course a number of Coda automobiles that were manufactured but never sold. Those have now been bought up for resale at a substantial discount. “An … [continued]
We wrote about the Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R earlier this month (check that link and/or this one for more details), but ToyotaEurope has published a video/visualization about the Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R that we seemed to initially miss. It’s pretty interesting/fun, so I thought I’d drop it here for a quick weekend watch: http://youtu.be/U267KXksdek
Originally published on Solar Love. Soitec, a consistent leader in concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) efficiency and commercial development, this month announced that it had set a 31.8% CPV commercial module efficiency record. “Soitec’s new module, which is already in industrial volume production, has the highest efficiency of any commercial product available for … [continued]
One of the cool cleantech programs I found out about on my trip last week to Ukraine* was an electric vehicle (EV) taxi program that is supposed to start there very soon. It seems that a few final bureaucratic details need to be confirmed, but once they are, 200 EV taxis … [continued]
