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High diesel prices promoted the search for alternatives

Location: Germany, Germany

Until recently applied for diesel vehicles is an easy rule of thumb: They cost more in the acquisition and the tax, but they consume less, and the fuel is cheaper. This made the self-ignition popular on Europe's roads. But since the diesel...

The GTbyCitroen soon marketed in small numbers?

Location: Mondial, Spain

One that began as a concept car developed for a virtual video game could soon be really produced twenty copies. Hoping that its main attribute: its own engine to fuel cells.
That may make salivate over one, not only among snags games:...

Fuel from Coal-Eating Microbes: A process for converting coal into natural gas could help reduce emissions.

Location: Philadelphia, United States

Luca Technologies, a startup based in Golden, CO, has raised $76 million to scale up a process that uses coal-digesting microorganisms to convert coal into methane. The process is designed to operate underground, inside coal mines. Methane, the...

Generating electricity from the exhaust from vehicles

Location: Fraunhofer Institute, Germany

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Technical Physics measures (IPM) develop a thermoelectric generator that converts heat from car exhaust into electricity. This module could serve as a power source for electronic systems in...

HONDA INTRODUCES ALL-NEW MICRO-CHP DELUXE UNIT

Location: Massachusetts, United States

Revolutionary Home HVAC System Reduces Energy Costs, Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Providing Back-up Power

American Honda Motor Company, Inc. introduced its all-new Micro-sized Combined Heat and Power...

Towards an optimized model of tractor driven on vegetable oil

Location: Rostock, Germany

In late 2005, the John Deere had started a project to test the feasibility of the adaptation of a tractor to use vegetable oil as fuel, while maintaining the quality standards of the company. The results obtained in the meantime are promising....

Capturing more kinetic energy through regenerative dampers

Location: Medford, United States

Recent developments in regeneration technology are almost ready for prime time. Both Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles and Power Generating Shock Absorbers are both being field tested and may be soon headed for mass production. Transport company...

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid

Location: Dearborn, United States

The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid includes some significant advances in mass production hybrid automotive technology. Although details released by Ford are technically incomplete many of the features announced to date point to the Fusion being the...

Nissan's First Dedicated Homegrown Hybrid

Location: Tokyo, Japan

By most accounts, Nissan missed the ball on hybrids. Today, the company has a single hybrid car available to consumers, the Nissan Altima Hybrid, but it’s only offered in eight states. But the company is looking very determined to make up...

9 liters of hydrogen in a box of matches

Location: Tohoku, Japan

Professor Shin-ichi Orimo the Institute for Material Research of Tohoku University has developed in collaboration with Japan Steel Works a reservoir the size of a box of matches could release up to 9 liters of hydrogen.

Hydrogen is...

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