German luxury-car maker BMW and Japanese automaker Toyota Motor (TMC) are planning to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand their cooperation in areas like hybrid and fuel-cell vehicle technology. Under the planned deal, BMW ...
Tags: BMW, Toyota, Technology Cooperation
November 22, 2012 - CanSIA (Canadian Solar Industries Association) will be showing off the solar industries’ newest technology at its conference, Solar Canada 2012, by featuring solar cars, the latest electric cars and the podium ...
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Only around 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States gets recycled, estimates the Environmental Protection Agency. Several attempts at turning plastic into oil have been made in the past with not much success, but a new start-up ...
Tags: plastic waste, Oil, Chemicals
IDG News Service-Honda will begin tests next year of a small electric vehicle that uses a driver's tablet for displaying dashboard readings,audio,navigation and images from its rearview camera,it said Tuesday. The company's new"Micro ...
Tags: Honda, small electric vehicle, Tablet-Synced Electric Mini-Car
In our youths many of us imagined the 2000s with everything from flying cars and self-tying shoes to robotic lawnmowers and machines that could control the weather.But we're well into 2012 now,and none of these things have materialised yet. ...
Tags: home of future, water-saving devices, advanced furniture
During the formal opening of the solar-powered charging station at Shelby Farms Park on Wednesday,a half-dozen shiny new electric vehicles–most with the sales pitch"98 mpg"painted on their windshields–filled the stalls of ...
Tags: Solar-Powered Charging Station, Electric Vehicles, New Technology
Priced at about $50,000, the upcoming pure-electric RAV4 EV is government-rated at 76 mpg equivalent (MPGe) with a 103-mile range. This electric SUV will go on sale in California on Sept 24th. Available for purchase or lease, the RAV4 EV ...
Tags: Toyota, Electric car, electric SUV
Taipei,Sept.5,2012--Yulon Group of Taiwan,a major carmaker on the island,recently announced the issuance of NT$6 billion(US$200 million)in unsecured corporate bonds to further develop distribution channels in China for its own line of ...
Tags: Taiwan, carmaker, Dongfeng Yulon, manufacture
Here on the final day of our LED exploration, I get down to brass tacks: the economic and ecological arguments for switching from incandescent to LED. And beware: I use math and logic. LED Economics I get it. An incandescent bulb cost ...
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Stanford University researchers have added graphene to a rechargeable nickel-iron battery design invented by Thomas Edison over 100 years ago and used to power 19th century electric cars. The Stanford researchers used graphene as the ...
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PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone. This year has brought the industry back from the ...
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Taiwan National Tsing Hua University has established a new compound semiconductor laboratory for the development of new chip components that will support alternative green energy sources. Cheng Keh-yung, dean of NTHU's College of Electrical ...
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5 June 2012 SiC drives material innovation for high-power electronics Due to its superior thermal and electrical properties, the wide-bandgap material silicon carbide (SiC) has emerged as a key enabling material that has the potential to ...
Tags: SiC material, MOSFET, performance criteria, Defense agencies
LONDON—After screening"Star Wars"for his students,a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pointed to a"remote"—as droids or robots are called in the movie—with which Luke Skywalker had been practicing his ...
Tags: Design, LED, Lighting, Application