General Electric plans to buy 25,000 electric cars in an effort to give the nascent technology a jump start and help develop a potentially big new market for the company, reports Associated Press. The first mass-market electric cars are set to go on sale in December (2010), including the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf…. Continue reading
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Driving the new Nissan Leaf through the 100 miles barrier.
photo credit: kosabeMany people are not even considering the new generation of electric cars (EVs) because of range anxiety. This is the fear of setting off in an EV, and not making it home, or to a charging point before you grind to a halt. Manufacturers promise a range of around 100 miles, but is… Continue reading →
Biodiversity and how to save it — the world tries again
Targets to slow the extinction of plant and animal species have been agreed by 193 countries at the UN’s Biodiversity Conference in Japan last weekend (October 30). One of the central components in the Nagoya Agreement is a new protocol that rich and poor nations would share profits from pharmaceutical, crops or other products derived from… Continue reading →
Electric car drives 372 miles in Germany
Audi A2 – photo credit: matze_ott An electric car drove the 372 miles (600 km) from Munich to Berlin without recharging its battery this week (Tuesday, October 26, 2010) Tuesday, setting what is being claimed as a world distance record for an everyday vehicle. The 27-year-old driver driver Mirko Hannemann delivered the four-door yellow and purple… Continue reading →
How easy will it be to charge an electric car?
The first fax machine, and the introduction of unleaded petrol came at about the same time, in the late 1980s. I’m reminded of how how hard it was to find both of these things, as we await the arrival of the first mainstream electric cars (EVs), scheduled for 2011. The first generation EVs will have… Continue reading →
"Wonder material" wins Noble Prize for Manchester scientists
Graphene -: CORE-Materials Everything in our three-dimensional world has a width, length and height, or so we thought. But scientists have now identified another class of — according to 2010 Nobel Prize winner Andre Geim — “wonder materials” that are stronger and stiffer than diamond, yet can be stretched like rubber. They are one atom thick, he… Continue reading →