Category: Green Tech

Bid for Cash by Tesla Motors Is Likely to Energize Company and Critics Alike
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Bid for Cash by Tesla Motors Is Likely to Energize Company and Critics Alike

Larry W. Smith/European Pressphoto AgencyFranz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief designer, showing the company’s Model X at the North American Auto Show in January. Tesla Motors announced plans on Wednesday to tap the markets for more cash, a move that will buy it time to meet its ambitious goals but will also fuel debate over its [...]

Published by on May 17, 2013 2:57 AM
Tesla Motors’ Bid for Cash May Also Energize Critics
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Tesla Motors’ Bid for Cash May Also Energize Critics

Tesla Motors on Wednesday announced plans to tap the markets for more cash, a move that will buy it time to meet its ambitious goals but will also fuel debate over its prospects. Tesla, the maker of electric cars founded and led by the entrepreneur Elon Musk, said it hoped to raise approximately $830 million [...]

Published by on May 16, 2013 12:56 AM
First wind-current power system to be installed off Japan’s coast
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First wind-current power system to be installed off Japan’s coast

Concept art of the SKWID floating wind and current hybrid power generation system. (Credit: Mitsui Ocean Development Engineering Company ) We may be closer to harnessing the power of the sea and air. The world’s first hybrid wind-current power generation system will be installed off the coast of Japan later this year. The Savonius Keel [...]

Published by on May 15, 2013 4:56 AM
Wheelies: The Flying Car Edition
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Wheelies: The Flying Car Edition

Courtesy of Terrafugia The Terrafugia TF-X is still in the early planning phase. In which we bring you motoring news from around the Web: • Have you ever wished you could just fly over traffic like Doc Brown at the end of “Back to the Future?” Massachusetts-based Terrafugia says it will have a flying plug-in [...]

Published by on May 8, 2013 10:50 AM
Levitating bike powers your phone, creates Wi-Fi hot spot
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Levitating bike powers your phone, creates Wi-Fi hot spot

(Credit: Dezien) When you pedal a bicycle, the kinetic energy is channeled into propulsion, but what if it could be used in other ways? Architect Michael Strain isn’t the first to think of using pedal power to charge your gadgets — in fact, there are products on the market that already allow you to harness [...]

Published by on May 8, 2013 4:50 AM
Tesla eyes ‘autopilot’ partnership with Google
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Tesla eyes ‘autopilot’ partnership with Google

Google’s self-driving car technology on display with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. (Credit: Google) Tesla, the electric car maker, has been in talks with Google about the development of a self-driving car, the former’s CEO revealed Tuesday. In a Bloomberg interview, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that his [...]

Published by on May 7, 2013 2:50 PM
Epic EV Torq: Three Wheels + One Electric Motor = Interesting
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Epic EV Torq: Three Wheels + One Electric Motor = Interesting

Epic Electric Vehicles Epic Electric Vehicles said it expects to build 50 of the 2013 Torq E.V. Morgan Motor Company’s 1930s-retro 3-Wheelers are cool. Of that there’s little doubt. They’re light, fast and guaranteed conversation starters. But what if you took that same Morgan, made it look all futuristic and replaced its noisy V-twin motorcycle [...]

Published by on May 5, 2013 4:44 AM
Squeezing More From Ethanol
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Squeezing More From Ethanol

The effort to untangle itself from this sticky situation is part of a larger proposal by the federal government to make the most sweeping changes in gasoline since lead additives were banned. Tucked inside the E.P.A.’s March announcement of a plan to cut the amount of sulfur allowed in gasoline was an audacious suggestion that [...]

Published by on May 4, 2013 2:41 AM
Shine on: Solar Impulse plane begins journey across America
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Shine on: Solar Impulse plane begins journey across America

Following a bicycle down the runway at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., a solar-powered airplane took off on a coast-to-coast voyage across the U.S. this morning to promote the message of clean technology. Piloted by Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA set off for Phoenix, Ariz., on the first leg of its [...]

Published by on May 3, 2013 12:41 PM
Wheelies: The Electric Phantom Edition
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Wheelies: The Electric Phantom Edition

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars The Rolls-Royce Phantom 102EX. In which we bring you motoring news from around the Web: • It sounds like something from an elaborate April Fools’ joke: an electric Rolls-Royce. The Rolls-Royce Phantom 102EX has not done so well in the market since its 2011 release. Torsten Muller-Otvos, the company’s chief executive, told [...]

Published by on May 3, 2013 12:38 AM
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