Tag: Batteries - Page 9
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GM and 30+ Electric Utilities Form Coalition to Support Plug-In Vehicles
Infrastructure & Standards for Plug-In Vehicles While making an infrastructure to charge plug-in vehicles (plug-in hybrids and battery electric cars) is a lot easier than making an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles (like the Honda FCX
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Google Invests in Aptera Motors and Lithium-Ion Battery Maker AtaCell
Google's RechargeIT Invests $2.75 Million Google's philanthropic arm, via its RechargeIT program, has just bet $2.75 million on two companies trying to make plug-in hybrids and electric cars a reality: Aptera Motors, maker of the three-wheeled
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Matsushita to Increase Lithium-ion Battery Production by 300%
50 Million More Battery Units per Month With the progressive electrification of transportation (from hybrids to plug-in hybrids to electric cars), one thing the world will need more of is batteries. Matsushita, who owns the Panasonic brand and has a
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Save Money and the Environment by Choosing the Best AA Batteries
How often have you stood in front of the overwhelming display of AA batteries and wondered: "How do I pick the best batteries for my money? And what is the best option to reduce the number of batteries I throw away?" With
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Most Huggable: The Recharge Pod, Solar Powered Cars, Organic Play Dough + More
Glastonbury festivalgoers won’t have to worry about dead cell phones thanks to the Recharge Pod.
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McCain Proposes Government-Sponsored Prize For Development of Better Battery Technology
McCain Makes A Bold Proposal Gas prices have so affected American economic and political life that it appears we are beginning to see a kind of 'green arms race' between the two presidential candidates. Granted, the green merits of some of the
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TH Radio Special: Inside Tesla Motors (With Pics)
Like Angelina Jolie, the Tesla Roadster looks smaller in person. Notwithstanding all the hype and speed-geek obsession around the electric car, it is a stunning thing to behold; truly elegant. Tesla’s San Carlos engineering facility is where the
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Father's Day Gift Guide
He's a good sport no matter what we deliver -- gamely wearing that outlandish tie for years to come. Yet -- wouldn't it be nice to gift something easy on the earth that actually makes his eyes
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Boing Boing Blogger Tests Solar Gadgets in the Woods
Well this is a nifty idea -- even if it isn't quite going as expected. Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets has packed his bags (and they are heavy, he says) full of solar powered gear and gone native. The blogger is currently somewhere in Harriman State
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Can an Electric Car Catch a Cold from a Battery Virus?
Any reader of these pages knows that batteries are key to the future of alternative energies. Light, high energy batteries to power electric cars. Cost effective batteries to store solar power at night or wind power when the air
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Onzo Energy Meter Displays Carbon Footprint
Onzo is coming. 2 million pounds sterling start-up funds for Onzo have been secured in a deal with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). Can this device live up to the great design promises that are being made for it? With a market release planned for
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Denmark's DONG Bets Big On EVs
TreeHugger fav Shai Agassi announced his Project Better Place has teamed with car-maker Renault and Denmark's unfortunately named DONG utility to build an electric vehicle
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My Other Vehicle Is...A Solar Robot Mower
A meadow might be preferable to a maintenance-requiring lawn, and a front-yard food garden would be even better. But if the lawn is there to stay, Swedish Husqvarna's new robot mower combines a battery-powered (NiMH) no-hands mowing system with solar
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Most Huggable: DIY Biodiesel, Storing Wind Power, Tiny Homes + More
Learn how to make your own biodiesel with this collection of handy videos.
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Battery Empowered: USBCELL Wins Two Awards in One Week
That small rechargeable battery, yes the one you can charge from the side of your computer, is having quite big a week. Having come away with a UK Energy Efficiency Award in December praise for the ingenuity of the USBCELL has been flooding in,
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Mercedes-Benz to Produce Hybrid with Lithium Ion Battery
Late last week Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans for the S400 BlueHybrid which, "unless someone else jumps in first. . .will be the first production automotive hybrid in the world to use a lithium ion battery." We first covered the concept in September,
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Product Review: Enviromower (Solar Lawn Mowing)
Long before I had any overtly green leanings I loathed petrol powered mowers. It was my first paying job, as teenager, mowing neighbourhood lawns. The noise, the fumes, the stench, Yeesh. So, many moons later, forced into mowing the yards of rental
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TH Forums Highlights: Helping Others Go Green, Pellet Stoves + More
1) In an interesting twist on an old question, Forums user mikebeavis says, "Hi all, I was thinking about how we all talk about how we planted a tree, started recycling, installed CFL bulbs in our homes, etc. etc. etc. That is of course wonderful. But I
