News tagged with hybrid
EarthTalk: Are hybrid cars really better for the environment?
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Dear EarthTalk: If you have an electric or plug-in hybrid car, you're paying for electricity rather than gasoline all or most of the time. How does that cost compare to a gas-powered car's cost-per-mile? And since the electricity ...
Britons offered cash grants to buy electric cars
Apr 16, 2009 |
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British motorists could receive up to 5,000 pounds (5,700 euros, 7,500 dollars) if they buy an electric car under government proposals unveiled Thursday.
Toyota to release solar charger for electric vehicles
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota is developing a solar charging station for electric cars and plug-in hybrids, making a green technology even greener. It has also designed a battery charger for mounting inside an electric ...
Searching for a single-electron source of standard quantized current
Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “More than fifteen years ago, efforts were made to come to some kind of practical and standard realization of single-electron sources of quantized current. However, it was too difficult to combine the wanted ...
Increasing Electric Car Battery Performance
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that by replacing conventional graphite electrodes with silicon nanotube electrodes, lithium-ion batteries can store 10 times more charge.
Nissan rolls out electric car at new headquarters
Aug 02, 2009 |
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(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.
Japanese car makers out to electrify Tokyo show
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Move over hybrids -- the biggest buzz at this year's Tokyo Motor Show looks set to come from electric cars as the dream of affordable zero-emission vehicles moves closer to reality.
Pulling the plug on hybrid myths
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives' tales, there's a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, ...
A Hummer That Gets 100 MPG?
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(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, ...
Obama announces $2.4 bln grant for electric vehicles
Aug 05, 2009 |
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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.
Just dive in: Natural product hybrid provides antimicrobial and cell-resistant surfaces
Aug 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Infections following treatment in clinics, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities are a grave problem for patients, and resistant germs can be particularly devastating.
Toyota Not Too Keen On Plug-In Hybrids
May 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota is recognized as one of the leaders in hybrid technology, so it may come as a surprise to some that the company is not terribly keen on selling hybrid plug-ins to consumers. Even though ...
Rapidly evolving gene contributes to origin of species
Biology /
Feb 05, 2009 |
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A gene that helped one species split into two species shows evidence of adapting much faster than other genes in the genome, raising questions about what is driving its rapid evolution.
Nanotech Batteries for a New Energy Future
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to save money and energy, many people are purchasing hybrid electric cars or installing solar panels on the roofs of their homes. But both have a problem -- the technology to store ...
From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists Develop New Hybrid Database System
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(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 ...
