6 Dec 2013, 14:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Even before the i3 was launched, other electric vehicles have been around, playing in the EV city-car segment freely. However, none of them were premium, like the BMW promised. Now, that it’s ...
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...
26 Nov 2013, 10:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The first EV from BMW and the first production car to use CFRP to a high extent, the i3, is a success. The over 10,000 orders the Germans recorded in the last few weeks speak loud enough.
The thi...
19 Nov 2013, 13:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors and Detroit Renewable Energy have announced a renewable energy project to turn solid waste from the Detroit area into energy that will be used to heat and cool GM’s Detroit-Hamt...
15 Nov 2013, 16:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The i3 boasted with its sustainable materials and eco-friendly approach even before it was launched. The Munich-based company made it its goal to make sure everyone knows ALL the advantages of its f...
14 Nov 2013, 08:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Just as we pointed out a while back, on our EfficientDynamics story, the world is changing at an ever faster pace these days. The population is growing and our resources and depleting.
Innovative...
1 Nov 2013, 18:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Let's face it: we can't go on living like this anymore. It's not that the resource consumption per capita has increased at a global scale but it's simply because we're just ...
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...
16 Oct 2013, 15:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW's all-new and first all-electric vehicle, the i3, was honored by the guys from Popular Mechanics, being named one of the top 10 breakthrough products of 2013, next to other impressive creat...
15 Aug 2013, 17:24 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The Car2go fleet of 450 smart fortwo electric drive car that was set up in Stuttgart at the end of 2012 has hit its first major milestone. Over 20,000 customers have driven 1,000,000 kilometers (621...
8 Aug 2013, 12:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Don't know about you but I'm actually excited about the i3. Some people say that the range of the car isn't enough, some are scared about the safety features because it's made ou...
23 Jul 2013, 14:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / IZEUS (Intelligent Zero Emission Urban System) is a new project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, that examines how traffic and infrastructure can be upgraded using ...
17 May 2013, 15:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen, here we are giving you a piece of news we never thought we’d write: this year’s Gumball 3000 Rally promises to be a zero emission event!
Don’t worry, we ha...
10 May 2013, 12:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Company announced that it will install the country’s largest rooftop photovoltaic powerplant at its manufacturing facility in Asan.
As part of the compa...
19 Apr 2013, 09:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / When talking about working for a sustainable future, reducing emissions and the damage cars cause to the environment, many of us tend to focus only on the end result of the automotive industry: the ...
14 Apr 2013, 16:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With a net worth believed to be somewhere about $23 billion, Sergey Brin should be able to afford buying a small country. But he likes to keep things simple and clean, as the Soviet-born American c...
28 Mar 2013, 13:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Bentley Motors has just announced the biggest roof-mounted solar panel system in the entire United Kingdom has been successfully fitted on top of their factory in Crewe.
A total of 20,000 solar p...
25 Jan 2013, 10:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Automakers are now on a quest to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by streamlining their operations, as well as adding as much new green tech as is currently financially possible and viable. Vol...
7 Jan 2013, 11:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford Motor Company has announced it’s sold 239 acres (about a square kilometer) of the former Wixom Assembly Plant to Trident Barrow Management, LLC, a unit of Barrow Development.
Ford Wixo...
23 Nov 2012, 16:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Now that you have your fresh motorcycle driver's license, sit tight and read on before jumping on your bike for your next trip; it might be useful