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Is the Electricity You Use Clean? The WattTime App Will Let You Know and Choose
Is the Electricity You Use Clean? The WattTime App Will Let You Know and Choose

27 Dec 2016, 18:11 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A simple app will tell you when the electric power you use comes from clean sources and allow you to plan accordingly for minimum CO2 emissions

 
Tesla Will Supply The Biggest Lithium Ion Energy System In The World
Tesla Will Supply The Biggest Lithium Ion Energy System In The World

16 Sep 2016, 17:55 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Tesla has been selected by Southern California Edison to provide it with an energy storage system, which will be the largest in the world with Lithium Ion

 
A European Country Ran 100 Percent on Renewable Energy for Four Days Straight
A European Country Ran 100 Percent on Renewable Energy for Four Days Straight

17 May 2016, 14:40 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / If the future is indeed electric, then renewable energy sources are the only way we can make it sustainable, and more and more countries seem to realize it

 
The U.S. Government Got Seriously Green with DoE’s $6 Million Worth Awards
The U.S. Government Got Seriously Green with DoE’s $6 Million Worth Awards

8 Apr 2015, 14:55 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We’re basically looking at 11 projects that involve supporting training, and integrating alternative fuels into emergency planning

 
Chargeboard Will Produce Energy While You’re Cruising It
Chargeboard Will Produce Energy While You’re Cruising It

3 Sep 2014, 14:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Conceived as a graduation project by Bjorn van den Hout, a student at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Chargeboard is a skateboard that generates electricity through two dynamos in the re...

 
Boeing and South African Airways Will Turn Hybrid Tobacco in Bio Fuel
Boeing and South African Airways Will Turn Hybrid Tobacco in Bio Fuel

14 Aug 2014, 13:49 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Boeing and South African Airways have recently closed a partnership through which the two corporations will collaborate in making sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. Besid...

 
GM to Become First US Automaker to Generate Its Own Electricity
GM to Become First US Automaker to Generate Its Own Electricity

6 Dec 2013, 10:43 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced it will invest no less than $24 million in electrical generation equipment that will allow the automaker to use more landfill gas at its assembly plants in Fort Wayne (I...

 
GM Goes Green with 1.8 Megawatt Solar Rooftop in Toledo
GM Goes Green with 1.8 Megawatt Solar Rooftop in Toledo

24 Oct 2013, 15:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced that its Toledo transmission plant in Ohio will be fitted with a 1.8-megawatt rooftop solar array next month. The project will spawn the largest rooftop solar arrangemen...

 
Nine GM Plants Earn the US EPA Energy Star
Nine GM Plants Earn the US EPA Energy Star

21 Aug 2013, 16:10 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced that nine of its facilities have earn the US EPA Energy Star voluntary Challenge for industry, bringing the company’s total to 63, a world record in the automotive...

 
BMW Cars to Predict Engine Energy Requirements
BMW Cars to Predict Engine Energy Requirements

11 May 2011, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Regardless of the propulsion means that drive the cars of the world, one big question bugs the automakers that try to put themselves at the front of the pack in the race for the future: how to make ...

 
Audi Partners with Desertec
Audi Partners with Desertec

29 Apr 2010, 10:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In an attempt to increase its involvement in the renewable electricity sector, German carmaker Audi announced today it has signed a partnership agreement with the Desertec Industrial Initiative, an ...

 
Ford Joins Earth Hour Support Efforts
Ford Joins Earth Hour Support Efforts

28 Mar 2010, 14:42 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Ford’s World Headquarters in Michigan went dark for one hour yesterday evening in support of Earth Hour, a global initiative to raise awareness of energy conservation and climate change. All i...

 
K2 Energy Solutions Released New Battery Technology
K2 Energy Solutions Released New Battery Technology

27 Jan 2010, 13:14 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If you’re one of those guys who thinks the electric vehicle could not become as usable as an internal combustion engined car, you might be wrong, as technical breakthroughs happen every day. J...

 
Reliant Energy to Help Nissan Leaf’s Marketing Campaign
Reliant Energy to Help Nissan Leaf’s Marketing Campaign

30 Nov 2009, 08:30 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Nissan is about to get some help with its upcoming launch of all-electric car Leaf. The CEO of one of America’s biggest electric utility companies decided to help with Nissan’s North Ame...

 
Volkswagen and LichtBlick Form Energy Alliance
Volkswagen and LichtBlick Form Energy Alliance

10 Sep 2009, 07:08 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Volkswagen and energy supplier LichtBlick yesterday signed an agreement in Salzgitter, with the German car manufacturer to produce the so-called "EcoBlue" CHP (combined heat and power) pla...