Posts Tagged ‘battery’
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Efficiency is a large stumbling block if you're looking for a way to replace gasoline. It's pretty hard to better such an exceptional fuel, and several alternatives show promise but are nagged by inefficiencies or cost, and usually both. Nanotech to the rescue; it may soon be possible to produce you......
Tags: alkaline cells, alternative, alternative fuels, anode, Automotive design, battery, catalytic action, cathode, efficiency, electric, energy density, fairy dust, fuel cell, fuel cells, FuelCell, green, home electrolysis, hydrogen, inefficiencies, kevin maloney, nanotechnology, nimh batteries, platinum, power gain, precious metals, president kevin, prius, quantumsphere, reactive nature, stumbling block, Tesla, tesla roadster, traditional materials
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Bob Lutz and A123 CEO Dave Vieau This morning at the Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, MI, General Motors Vice-Chairman Bob Lutz announced that they were promoting battery supplier A123 Systems from Tier 2 to Tier 1 supplier status. That means that A123 will effectively no longer just......
Tags: a123 systems, A123Systems, autobloggreen, battery, battery chemistry, battery development, battery pack, bob lutz, chairman bob, chevy volt, cobasys, general motors, Lithium ion, lithium ion battery, LithiumIon, management briefing seminars, motor vehicles, phosphate, saturn vue, saturn vue hybrid, tier 1 supplier, Tier-2, traverse city, vice chairman
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
It's not often that a project of this magnitude crosses our computer screens. Say what you will about our friends over at Jalopnik (even you, Wert) -- they know the true meaning of "automotive enthusiast."The crew at the aforementioned web site has built the Turbo II Junkyard Boogaloo boombox, capab......
Tags: battery, battery boombox, BatteryBoombox, blender, bmws, boombox, breakdancers, car battery, car speakers, computer screens, conglomeration, disco dance club, indicator lights, input jacks, jaguars, jalopnik, jeff gordon, junkyard, magnitude, margaritas, nascar, plywood, true meaning, turbo ii
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
It would seem that BMW reads Autoblog. How else would you explain them, at least partially, answering our question about how a conventional automobile would utilize some of the hybrid demon-tweaks?For the first time ever, BMW has equipped a non-hybrid car with a regenerative braking system. There's ......
Tags: 5-Series, 5Series, battery, bmw, carbon reduction, CarbonReduction, efficiency, green, kyoto, regenerative braking, RegenerativeBraking
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Ever stare at that spot on your dash that has a piece of plastic where a button should be? Ever wonder what that button would do if it were installed? More and more Prius owners are finding out that that empty spot on their dashes is occupied on Euro-spec Prius models by a button that switches the h......
Tags: acceleration, american models, batteries, battery, battery pack, battery power, btw, cnet, computer geeks, dashes, drivetrain, enlightenment, euro spec, exact whereabouts, foursprung, fuel mileage, hybrid, hybrids, mileage, nav system, periods, prius
Posted in Hybrids/Alternative, green, toyota | No Comments »
Monday, April 10th, 2006
On Thursday, the AFS Trinity Power Co., a private corporation that develops energy storage technologies, announced it has filed a patent for a plug-in hybrid capable of traveling more than 250 miles on a gallon of gasoline or ethanol. After being charged overnight on regular house current the Extrem......
Tags: afs, Automotive design, battery, battery power, drivetrain, energy storage technologies, engineering company, ethanol, gallon of gasoline, gason, hybrid, patent, power co, pr newswire, prius, private corporation, trinity, xh, yahoo
Posted in Hybrids/Alternative, I.C.E., Tech, concept cars, green | No Comments »
Friday, March 10th, 2006
Nissan, like the German automakers, initially was hesitant to develop hybrid vehicles. But seeing Toyota's and Honda’s success in the fast-growing segment, Japan’s second largest automaker tentatively took steps to the ‘green’ side by licensing parts from Toyota for the upcoming hybrid Altim......
Tags: altima, batteries, battery, green car, green car technology, GreenCar, GreenCarTechnology, hybrid, hybrid synergy drive, hybrids, HybridSynergyDrive, licensing, nissan, prius, toyota, vehicle parts
Posted in Hybrids/Alternative, Trends, green, nissan | No Comments »
