News tagged with gas mileage
House passes funding for green vehicle research
Sep 16, 2009 |
not rated yet |
1
(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.
Chemist's discovery of new salt jumpstarts extended-life battery research for electric vehicles
May 12, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (6) |
7
A University of Rhode Island chemistry professor's discovery of a new salt has been received with enthusiasm by companies seeking to develop an advanced lithium ion battery for use in the next generation of hybrid and electric ...
A Hummer That Gets 100 MPG?
Apr 23, 2009 |
2.4 / 5 (24) |
17
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting vehicles unveiled at the the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit is an electric Hummer that gets, according to its developer Raser Technologies, ...
Garmin reveals program to chart cheapest route
Jan 09, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
Navigation isn't just about getting there. It also can be about getting there green.
Search results for gas mileage
Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
5 hours ago |
3 / 5 (2) |
2
Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...
NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
18 hours ago |
5 / 5 (4) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope ...
Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
23 hours ago |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
1
Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...
Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole
Nov 10, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers ...
Controversial new climate change results
Nov 10, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (27) |
28
(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...
Switching Gears to Greener Transportation
Nov 10, 2009 |
3 / 5 (3) |
1
Automakers around the world continue to slowly infuse their cars and trucks with greener, more efficient technology, but researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute contend that technology alone will not ...
Planetary Society plans new 'solar sail'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 09, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (13) |
0
(AP) -- Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft that will be propelled by the ...
Researchers to develop novel drug detection technology using software that acts like a robotic scientist
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 09, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn’t just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that may serve as a permanent record of each exposure.
Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 09, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
2
The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities.
Path to good health, less pollution is the sidewalk: report
Nov 09, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
US pressure groups joined forces Monday to urge authorities to spend more to improve Americans' health and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
List of search results for gas mileage
