31 Jul 2012, 13:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Taiwan may not be at the forefront of alternative fuel development, it is a state which has the financial power to start its own green program. And thus, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA...
28 Jul 2012, 06:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The only major car manufacturer to have used the Wankel rotary engine is was Mazda. Sadly, now they’ve moved on to more efficient ways of powering automobiles and, at least for now, no more ro...
26 Jul 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As we all know from the Hindenburg tragedy, hydrogen is a very dangerous and flammable element. It is therefor very reasonable of the British authorities to decided the ‘grounding’ of th...
9 Jul 2012, 09:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Silveretta E-Car Rally, now in its third edition, is a special type of rally which is designed to test and push EVs to their constructive limits, in order to force problems to appear, then allow...
6 Jul 2012, 14:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda is a manufacturer priding itself on being different, having chosen to do the SKYACTIV program, instead of hybrids, EVs and hydrogen powered cars. Well, not any more, as they have now revealed ...
26 Jun 2012, 14:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda’s 45 year history of using the rotary engine to power its cars is over. On Friday, the last RX-8 rolled off the Mazda production line in Hiroshima, signaling the end of an era, as it set...
21 Jun 2012, 11:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Following in the footsteps of Europe, countries around the world are just starting to embrace the diesel engine as a viable alternative to its spark-aided counterpart, the petrol engine. Around half...
20 Jun 2012, 15:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While most countries are struggling to get an EV charging network up and running, the Germans are taking a different approach. The Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, as well as s...
15 Jun 2012, 14:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The US state of Texas has decided to boost the adoption rate of alternatively-fueled vehicles, by offering a reported $5.7- (€4.5-) million in the form of grants. The grants will apply to pure ...
11 Jun 2012, 10:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda have been using the Wankel rotary engine since the 1960s and have steadily improved the concept over the past five decades, having used it in racing and road cars with varying degrees of succe...
8 Jun 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It has become an extremely complex matter, that of EVs, hybrids, hydrogen-power, biofuels, bio-this, eco-jibber-jabber-that. The fact of the matter is that EVs could have taken off with the EV1 made...
7 Jun 2012, 09:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought the American public was generally misinformed and ignorant, you’d be wrong, as according to a recent video posted online by Honda, they have strong opinions and are generally in...
30 May 2012, 10:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having reported that President Obama may be shifting his focus from the (still very promising) hydrogen fuel cell technology, towards the more commercial and frankly less interesting and promi...
28 May 2012, 15:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The hydrogen fuel cell, we think, is still the best way to power us into the future, cleanly, efficiently and very simply, by combining hydrogen and oxygen and capturing the electrical charge of the...
23 May 2012, 07:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Obama administration in the US declared its full support of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle development and the creation of the hydrogen fueling station network, thus taking some of the spotlight awa...
21 May 2012, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / A recent UK study of 1000 businesses, carried out by ALD Automotive, revealed that 60% of company drivers would not swap their conventionally powered car with an electric one.
The main disadvanta...
15 May 2012, 12:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the recent EV and plug-in hybrid craze which has literally swept the world and has permanently changed our understanding of hybrids and EVs and how and where their very diverse applications in ...
9 May 2012, 16:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The old continent has been successfully crossed by a pair of hydrogen-powered Hyundai iX35 from the North of Europe, in Oslo, to the very South, in Monaco - a journey of 2246 km (1,404 miles) which ...
8 Apr 2012, 19:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Seagulls are falling from the sky, baby seals are being smothered to death by greenhouse gasses and the polar bears’ habitat is shrinking every day. These are all NOT things the automotive wor...
14 Mar 2012, 09:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Boeing has already proved that the technology that isn’t quite ready for our cars is just right for planes. In 2008, the first hydrogen fuel cell aircraft was piloted (by a man), making histor...