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The economical crisis is the best moment for auto industry’s ruling players to fuse their forces and/or technologies, for increasing profit on everyone’s side.

I know my opinion doesn’t matter to those who matter, but it rather matters to me and probably to you, my reader. Since I saw what electricity could mean to the car industry and how it can revolutionize the way and what cars consume energy, I totally changed my mind about biofuels and other burnable [...]

As many producers announce their hybrid or electric cars, it’s more and more obvious that the future is of electric car’s.
There is a competition to be the first one to produce electric cars and have them on the road.

New York Auto Show 2009 will bring to attention a lot of new cars, a lot of manufacturers that will want to sell green technologies as this seems to be the future for the automotive market.With similar specifications as the Tesla Roadster, Liv Inizio is an electric sports car made by EV Innovations formerly known [...]

Our world is full of brilliant designers who take everything their minds envision and transform into reality… or models, prototypes. Designers complete the engineers’ work. One without the other would be like a carriage without a horse.

Two UK researchers, David Worsley and Maarten Wijdekop have made up a paint that could produce electricity by gathering the energy from the Sun. A consortium led by Swansea University in the UK hopes to use that process to cover steel sheets with a photovoltaic paint at up to 40 square metres per minute.The paint [...]

Mindset, a newcomer in the auto industry has announced Six50, a hybrid 2+2 seater that incorporates solar power, Li-Ion battery and a two-cylinder gasoline motor that also kicks in as a generator as required. Battery charging is further assisted by the roof-top solar panels.

In the more and more crowded market of hybrid cars, Citroën will unveil their Hypnos, a new diesel-electric hybrid crossover concept, at the Paris Motor Show coming up this October. Hypnos has a 200hp engine, combining low fuel consumption and dynamic performance. The figures Citroën quotes are 50mpg and 120 g/km of CO2.

Although Mitsubishi is testing the iMiev electric car in fleets throughout the world, official production

The third car with GM’s Voltec series hybrid power train was announced at the Geneva auto show, the Opel Ampera. The two cars preceding it were the Chevrolet Volt and the Cadillac Converj. The Opel Ampera shares a platform with the Volt, and the cars are nearly identical.

The Liv Inizio, an all-electric sports car with specs similar to the Tesla Roadster, is making its debut at the 2009 New York auto show. This new electric car is made by EV Innovations, formerly called Hybrid Technologies, which showed off the Liv Wise, a Toyota Yaris converted to an electric power train, at last [...]

Here’s a little tricky experiment that you can do on your own at home. It’s very simple to do, all you have to have is a solar battery (you can buy that cheaply from a scrap store), a bottle, a toy with wheels you don’t need anymore, and a little bit of super glue. It [...]

One of the stranger-looking representatives of the electric car revolution is approaching its public debut. The Aptera 2e, an all-electric car that the company calls an “aerodynamic marvel,” has reached pre-production and is scheduled to start being manufactured in October of this year.

By now, teenagers are very practiced at complaining about climbing gas prices and lamenting the fate of the envi-ronment, but how much do we really do in our daily lives to reduce our nefarious carbon footprint? Do we turn off the lights when we leave a room? Bike to the grocery store? How about converting [...]