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Charge your EV while you eat...

Philippa Martin-King on March 15, 2010 | 20 Views
A British company is proposing to install EV charging points at Little Chef roadside cafés in an aim to boost the confidence of both manufacturers and the public. Reuben ...

In a lighter vein

Shrikant Dhekne on February 1, 2010 | 356 Views
The name wattwatt strikes a ring of familiarity and is seen extremely apt. In Marathi language of western India, a phonetically similar word वटवट (pronounced: wutwut; possible to spell: wattwatt ...

Solar Power in Public Transportation

Dean Dowd on January 26, 2010 | 947 Views
Solar-powered mass transit is key to U.S. energy sustainability. Did you know that one full city bus can keep 50 or more cars off the road? Or that a ...

Solar scooters in Rio de Janeiro

Yvonne Flavin on January 22, 2010 | 560 Views
We're hearing a lot of talk about electric cars but not so much about two-wheeled vehicles. Those of us who live and work in cities know that two-wheelers are ...

2010 - year of the electric car and a little food for thought

Philippa Martin-King on January 12, 2010 | 539 Views
The 2010 Detroit and LA motor shows have a concentration of electric cars. These are either hybrid, where they are differentiated into two categories of "mild" and "full" - with the ...

Robot electric taxis

Philippa Martin-King on December 7, 2009 | 624 Views
According to Der Spiegel  a new European Union-funded project will see the introduction of driverless Taxis at Heathrow, "cyber cars" in Rome and an automatic bus in Castellón, Spain ...

Standardization essential for electric car development

Yvonne Flavin on November 20, 2009 | 658 Views
At the IEC 73rd General Meeting, which took place last month in Tel Aviv, a special workshop was held on "e-mobility". Called "International Standards for E-mobility – A Necessity for Mass ...

Plug standardization for electric cars

Yvonne Flavin on October 22, 2009 | 836 Views
The technology news website CNET.com has reported that the SAE J1772 charging system and coupler is to be voted the standard connection for plug-in vehicles. Rather than having cars ...

Electric cars drive to centre stage at IEC meeting in Israel

Jonathan Buck on October 20, 2009 | 756 Views
The IEC is holding its annual general meeting in Tel Aviv this week with more than 1000 experts from 60 countries. High on the agenda are electric cars and the ...

A bright selection of electric vehicles

Jose Vaz Pinto on September 14, 2009 | 1130 Views
Prepared by Stephen Clemenger for EV World and you can view it at: http://evworld.com/library/...

Zero-emission cars: no longer an electric dream

Yvonne Flavin on August 3, 2009 | 1045 Views
Nissan, the Japanese automobile manufacturer, has just presented its first electric car, which could make it the first firm to mass-produce this kind of vehicle. The car should go on ...

UK to electrify major railway line

Philippa Martin-King on July 28, 2009 | 807 Views
Interestingly, while in the UK last week, I learnt that the British Deaprtment for Transport had announced a large-scale electrification programme for one of its major railway lines that goes ...

IBM Webcast - How Data Centers Can Pay For Themselves

Ameya Jain on July 23, 2009 | 842 Views
I came across this webcast “How Green Data Ceners can Pay For Themselves” https://event.on24.com/even... ...

Continuously variable transmission for the hybrid car

John Assam on July 20, 2009 | 1179 Views
The 2010 Toyota Camry Hybrid sedan offers high quality and reliability of the petrol powered Camry together with increased fuel efficiency. The Toyota Camry Hybrid can operate on any combination ...

Can HP's alliance with Alcatel-Lucent pose real threat to Cisco ?

Manas India on June 20, 2009 | 813 Views
Came across this article at blog Tech Balls  http://techballs.blogspot.com HP has entered into a 10-year alliance with Alcatel-Lucent. HP has been trying to delve into the networking ...