Toyota to test solar panels for electric cars
What's not to like about this concept: high-efficiency solar cells gifting electric cars with mileage.
Energy & Green Tech
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Energy & Green Tech
Charging electric vehicles with photovoltaics at home
An electric car that runs on PV power sounds appealing. But is it really possible to enjoy flexibility with a vehicle charged through a home photovoltaic system? An ETH research team has reached some surprising conclusions.
Jan 4, 2022
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Engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for a novel, low-cost energy storage system, according to a new study. The technology ...
Jul 31, 2023
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Lightyear is set for 2019 debut of its solar-powered car
(Tech Xplore)—A company called Lightyear aims to make a big difference in pushing electric cars into greener pastures.
Energy & Green Tech
France has solar-strip paving ambitions for long stretch of roads
France has ambitious plans to pave its roads using solar strips. How ambitious? The plan involves a 621-mile stretch of roads with the panels over the next five years, say reports.
Energy & Green Tech
Range extenders: solar panels provide more juice to EVs
Startups and major carmakers are starting to incorporate solar panels on their electric vehicles, an addition that extends the range of the cars even if perpetual motion remains a dream.
Jun 29, 2022
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Why we should use electric rather than hydrogen cars
Last night's Federal Budget did not have any promising signals for encouraging uptake of electric vehicles, or to increase spending on installing the essential infrastructure needed to allay fears that motorists won't be ...
May 12, 2021
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New way to predict when electric cars and home batteries become cost effective
The future cost of energy storage technologies can now be predicted under different scenarios, thanks to a new tool created by Imperial researchers.
Jul 10, 2017
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Sono Motors to put its electric car in production mode 2019
Here is a business venture, spawned off a garaged project, that is every bit in the feel-good tech story genre and they are for real. Three friends with a vision built a community to start a movement, says their promotional ...
Energy & Green Tech
What does it take to make a better battery?
Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology's biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution.
Feb 11, 2019
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