Wayne Landry
So you have a new BMW i3 or i8 in your driveway, and you’re loving the freedom the electric-drive capability gives you-but you’d like to be even greener? BMW DesignworksUSA has the answer with its stunningly simple, high-tech solar carport. MUST SEE: 2015 BMW i8 Production Mega...
Here's more proof Tesla is thinking like a tech company, not a car company: Tesla plans to build a battery "gigafactory" (its name, not ours) that by 2020 will have the capacity to produce 50 times the amount of batteries shipping in Tesla cars last year, 20 times the sales of all electric vehicles last year.
Hybrid News | Hybrid Forum | Hybrid Directory | Videos Hybrid Cars use a rechargeable energy storage system to supplement fossil fuel energy for vehicle propulsion. Hybrid engines are smaller and more efficient than traditional fuel engines. Some hybrid vehicles use regenerative braking to generate electricity while travelling.
It's hard to feel completely virtuous using an electric vehicle when there's a high probability that at least some of the power going into your car comes from a coal-fired power plant or other dirty energy source.
It's time to implement one of the science fiction level ideas and create smart roads. Let's start with the generation of electricity. We have millions of miles of roads. If they were all fitted with solar-power generators, America could close down its coal-fired generating stations.
BMW predicts thatChina will have the world's biggest electric car market as the nation builds more charging infrastructure and promotes cleaner cars to cut pollution. Electric car models such as the BMW I3 is planned for launch in September, which has a fuel efficiency of 2.8 litres for every 100km (approximately 62 miles).
The future of renewable energy doesn't just depend on Solar Panel or Wind Turbines, it's also intimately tied to the smaller hardware and equipment that power these devices. Wind Turbines, for example, currently rely on old and outdated Mechanical Slip Rings to deliver rotating power, but with failures and maintenance on the rise, new technologies like wireless power and Slip Rings are starting to fill this gap and support the renewable energy sources of the future.
