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Electric Cars vs. Fuel Cell Cars
While some car manufacturers are placing their bets on electric cars, Toyota has decided to continue its focus on hybrids, and will introduce 21 updated or full model change hybrids in the next three years. It expects to sell a million hybrids each year through 2015. This year, the Prius family became the third top sellling cars in [...]
Siemens Announces Wind Layoffs
The wind industry has warned that Congress’ failure to renew a wind production tax credit would result in massive layoffs across the industry, and this looks to be the case already for one major wind manufacturer. Siemens Energy Inc. announced this week that it will be laying off over 600 employees in the midwest as [...]
The ULTRAPOWER 20 Solar Lawn Mower
Driven by Solar has introduced an eco friendly lawnmower that uses the power of batteries to trim your lawns. Unlike gasoline-powered mowers that emit carbon and rely on fossil fuels to operate, the new Ultrapower 20” cordless machine causes no pollution and performs equally well. While push mowers are also an eco friendly alternative, their [...]
UCF staff develops solar-powered fleet car for campus rides
Eco Factor: Zero-emission car powered by solar energy. David Norvell, the director of the Office of Sustainability and Energy Management at the University of Central Florida,is making some heads turn on the university’s campus by driving a carfueled by the abundant energy of the sun. The inventor has retrofitteda ZENN brand NEV, which comes with [...]
Solar energy harnessing Flower Cell offers a sustainable recharge
Thecurrent situation of the planet demands more use of alternative energyand systems that are less polluting and more environmentallyresponsible. This thinking has made several designers develop productsthat in some way or the other are helping retrieve the environment fromits present state. Industrial designer Alan Ríos is a man on the same mission. Alanhas developed a [...]
A three-wheeled vehicle to recharge your gadgets with solar energy
Ifyou’re travelling by your car, you’re never away from a charging pointwhich can recharge your cellphones and navigation devices. However,pedestrians are always at a risk of losing the charge on their gadgetswhen they’re away from their homes. Finding a wall socket, that toomiles away from home, wouldn’t often yield a desired result. ThePowerBike by Sustainable [...]