Better Place electric car revolution motors on

Better Place, Shai Agassi's electric car revolution, has joined not-for-profit NGO The Climate Group to help accelerate the transition away from the internal combustion engine. We've sung the praises of Better Place before on Greenbang for its plan to set up country-wide networks and grids of charging stations powered from renewable sources for electric cars, with…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 8, 20081Comment

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US car industry bailout: Ford pledges to go electric

Ford submitted its latest begging letter - sorry, business planning assumption - to the US Congress this week, outlining how it is a viable long-term business that will return to profitability and how the US car manufacturing market is worthy of being propped up in the short term with a government bail out. As part of…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 3, 20080Comments

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James Dyson works on solar-electric car engine

Greenbang loves James Dyson, he of the eponymous vacuum cleaner. She's not really sure why. It's just the same fuzzy unthinking affection she normally reserves for Labrador puppies and elaborately wrapped boxes of chocolates. Now Greenbang has a reason to love him even more: the scamp is devoting his engineering nous to coming up with…

ByThe Global ViewJune 24, 20081Comment

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How to explore space without fuel

Greenbang would like to say: electric solar wind sail. Nope, she's not trapped in a youthful hell playing Mallett's Mallet, being smacked over the head with a rubber hammer, she's just describing an incredible invention out of Finland: an electric solar wind sail. Not only a great collection of words, the electric solar wind sail is…

ByThe Global ViewApril 18, 20080Comments

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UK’s first hydrogen fuelling station comes to Brum

And if Arnie's hydrogen handouts weren't enough to delight the very (fuel) cells of your being, the UK now getting its own hydrogen fuelling station. Hurrah! If you want to check it out though, you're going to wend your way to Birmingham, where Brum academics are planning to use the fuelling station to help study "the…

ByThe Global ViewApril 18, 20080Comments

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Electric cars: the grid can take it

Good news, all. It looks like the chicken licken 'the sky is falling in' type predictions that have dogged electric cars might not actually be about to come true: people can plug in and recharge their hybrid cars from a wall plug socket, without bringing down the electricity grid and thrusting us, worm-like, into a…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 31, 20080Comments

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Electric cars: Best done in the dark

Now, Greenbang doesn't want to sound churlish here, but when she initially read reports on new research Oak Ridge National Laboratory research bearing titles along the lines of 'plug in hybrid vehicles could affect electricity supply', she thought "Well, durr." After all, if you suddenly start putting lots of cars that use electricity out on…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 21, 20080Comments

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Tesla Roadster: It’s here!

Hoorah! Ladies and gentleman, bust out the cigars and charge your glasses, for we are about to witness the birth of a beautiful baby electric car. Yes, that's right, Tesla is finally about to bring forth its long awaited Roadster. The car went into production this week, according to Tesla, with the 2008 Roadster already sold…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 19, 20080Comments

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$15 million for electric car maker Miles

Like bees on honey and flies on, you know, whatever flies go for, VCs have been going mad for electric cars of late. After Tesla got a cool $40 million funding boost last week, now it's the turn of Miles Electric Vehicles. The company has just been given a $15 million investment by Angeleno Group, a…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 26, 20080Comments

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Better Place electric car revolution motors on

US car industry bailout: Ford pledges to go electric

James Dyson works on solar-electric car engine

How to explore space without fuel

UK’s first hydrogen fuelling station comes to Brum

Electric cars: the grid can take it

Electric cars: Best done in the dark

Tesla Roadster: It’s here!

$15 million for electric car maker Miles

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