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Toyota unveiled Tuesday a new lightweight, sporty concept car inspired by an iconic coupe from the 1980s, saying its vision of the future was both mean and green. http://www.physorg.com/news174050888.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:28:52 EST news174050888 France plans to invest 1.5 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars) on infrastructure for the two million electric and hybrid cars it wants on its roads by 2020, the ecology minister said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news173639548.html Technology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:13:18 EST news173639548 Clemson University researchers have been awarded a $470,000 National Science Foundation grant to study making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) more efficient to reduce fossil fuel use. http://www.physorg.com/news173371840.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:43 EST news173371840 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that by replacing conventional graphite electrodes with silicon nanotube electrodes, lithium-ion batteries can store 10 times more charge. http://www.physorg.com/news172932021.html Nanotechnology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:10:01 EST news172932021 French industrial group Dassault and US joint venture Dow Kokam on Tuesday announced a preliminary agreement on a partnership to create batteries for electric and hybrid cars. http://www.physorg.com/news172847241.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:30:12 EST news172847241 They are Angola's national symbol and the nickname for the country's football team -- yet fewer than 100 are believed still alive. http://www.physorg.com/news172846470.html Biology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:20:02 EST news172846470 (PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park. http://www.physorg.com/news172743431.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:20:03 EST news172743431 (AP) -- Targeting more federal money to support the auto industry, the House on Wednesday approved an expansion of government-led research into making cars and trucks more fuel-efficient. http://www.physorg.com/news172317861.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:20:05 EST news172317861 While the cost of fuel has put a damper on the travel plans of many Americans, one father-son engineering duo with a passion for RV travel is combating the problem by conceptualizing an electric-hybrid passenger vehicle with the ability to improve fuel economy and increase the acceleration of the motor home towing it. http://www.physorg.com/news172173698.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:20:01 EST news172173698 Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance. The findings were published online in Nature Materials on Sunday 13 September. http://www.physorg.com/news172072693.html Nanotechnology Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:58:45 EST news172072693 (AP) -- A Chinese official tried to calm unease about curbs on exports of rare earths used in clean energy products and superconductors, saying Thursday that sales will continue but must be limited to reduce damage to China's environment. http://www.physorg.com/news171178307.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:02 EST news171178307 (PhysOrg.com) -- As the amounts of data being stored by databases around the world enters the realm of the petabyte (the amount of data stored in a mile-high stack of CD-ROM disks), efficient data management is becoming more and more important. Now computer scientists at Yale University have developed a new database system by combining the best features of multiple approaches to create an open source hybrid system called HadoopDB. http://www.physorg.com/news170525347.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:09:43 EST news170525347 "Experts" have long been saying the popularity of hybrid vehicles is waning, in parallel to lower gas prices. Say it ain't so? It ain't. http://www.physorg.com/news170361448.html Technology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:40:04 EST news170361448 The German government unveiled plans Wednesday to get one million electric cars zipping around the country by 2020, offering sweeteners to jump-start national giants like BMW and Volkswagen into action. http://www.physorg.com/news169904819.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:47:28 EST news169904819 General Motors will launch a plug-in hybrid sport utility vehicle under the Buick brand in 2011, the automaker said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news168842357.html Technology Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:39:49 EST news168842357 Finnish engineering company Metso's unit Valmet Automotive and utility Fortum said Thursday they will jointly develop an electric concept car to be shown at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news168777930.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:10:06 EST news168777930 President Barack Obama Wednesday unveiled a 2.4-billion-dollar funding boost for the development of new generation electric vehicles and slammed critics of his economic rescue plans. http://www.physorg.com/news168701284.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:40:02 EST news168701284 Despite major costs to taxpayers in the U.S. and Canada, government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits, a new UBC study says. http://www.physorg.com/news168600484.html Technology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:50:03 EST news168600484 (AP) -- Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn drove quietly out of the Japanese automaker's soon-to-open headquarters Sunday in the first public viewing of its new zero-emission vehicle. http://www.physorg.com/news168412094.html Technology Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:40:02 EST news168412094 Amid corporate restructuring plans, car czars and a waning economy, the struggling automotive industry is tasked with providing more efficient and economical options for car buyers. While foreign markets have been quick to move into hybrid and electric vehicle space, the United States has been slower to adapt. http://www.physorg.com/news167410677.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:20:02 EST news167410677 NTT DOCOMO, Japan's largest mobile operator, announced today its development of the SOLAR HYBRID (docomo STYLE series SH-08A), a solar-powered, waterproof mobile phone that will go on sale in Japan from September. http://www.physorg.com/news166859392.html Electronics Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:50:24 EST news166859392 Honda Motor announced plans to begin sales in Japan of the CR-Z sporty hybrid model in February 2010 and Fit Hybrid before the end of 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news166724728.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:25:53 EST news166724728 German auto maker Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013, VW head Martin Winterkorn said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news165861018.html Technology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:31:47 EST news165861018 Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official. http://www.physorg.com/news165808257.html Technology Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:40:02 EST news165808257 German luxury car maker Daimler launched its first hybrid model last week, almost 10 years after the market leader, Toyota. http://www.physorg.com/news165387006.html Technology Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:29:58 EST news165387006 "What brings you in to see me today?" http://www.physorg.com/news164989712.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:40:01 EST news164989712 Toyota Motor, the world's top automaker, plans to roll out a fuel-cell car by 2015 in its push to stay ahead in the global race for green autos, vice president Masatami Takimoto said. http://www.physorg.com/news164958172.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:02 EST news164958172 Steve and Beth Griffith and their family thought they were well on their way to living an energy-saving green lifestyle. http://www.physorg.com/news164919474.html Technology Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:30:01 EST news164919474 In a groundbreaking study, scientists at Florida Atlantic University have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). http://www.physorg.com/news164363618.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:40:02 EST news164363618 Fuel-efficient and environmentally-friendly, hybrid buses starred at a public transportation congress in Vienna this week, but they still face a long road before becoming cost-effective on a mass scale. http://www.physorg.com/news163782375.html Technology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:06:44 EST news163782375