In Oregon, the Hood River Valley High School Earth Club turned a dream into reality by installing a small wind turbine next to their football field. Students who are interested in alternative energy did the legwork to make sure the 1.8 kilowatt wind turbine would fly high as a symbol of their commitment to green [...]
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The Shelby Ultimate Aero EV Supercar has been unveiled along with some tantalizing details about this speed demon. Taking on the Tesla is no easy task, but the Shelby Aero EV reported can sprint from 0 to 60 mph in an amazing 2.5 seconds.
This is not your father’s electric car. The top speed is around [...]
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Last week I talked about how California regulators (mainly CARB) may decide to kill the aftermarket for plug-in vehicles this week. In 2010, if this deadline holds up both GM and Toyota will rollout their first commercial plug-in hybrid vehicles. GM will rollout the Chevy Volt and Toyota a plug-in Prius.
But, where does this leave [...]
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Wind power may be an intermittent source of energy and so too may be the job market associated with this industry. At least this is the report over at Earth2Tech where they are talking about several wind power companies who have announced layoffs because of the faltering economy.
One of the companies that has not announced [...]
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You would think that after the “Who Killed the Electric Car” debacle that the California Air Resources Board (CARB), one of the key conspirators, would want to reverse their image and do what is really in the public’s best interest. But, cutting tailpipe emissions on cars, may just be a smokescreen according to the East [...]
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