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US banks billions on an electric-car future
While the world’s oil companies insist they’ll dominate the energy picture for the foreseeable future, the US is placing a substantial bet elsewhere …
Hot Swedish minicar gets 358 miles per gallon
A team of students in Sweden has created a minicar with a fuel efficiency that the world’s ailing automakers can hardly dream of: 152.2
Top 10 myths of cleaner, greener transport
The accelerating quest for low-carbon ways of getting from here to there is generating some misleading myths along the way, according to British researchers.
Stop waiting for low-carbon car breakthroughs, researchers say
As the age of easy oil fades away and the era of accelerating climate change gets under way, it might be time to stop
Ready to turn a new LEAF on the road?
A lot of people wonder what the next generation of cars will be powered by. Some think that hybrids are the way forward, while
ChargeCar: ‘Crowdsourcing’ tomorrow’s electric car
US researchers are hoping to develop a cheaper and more practical electric car by studying how people commute and then developing a “commute ecology”
Without green energy & efficiency, electric cars aren’t the answer
While a shift to electric cars is widely touted as a brilliant way to reduce carbon emissions and dependence on oil, less attention goes
Magnetic fields could propel people movers, assembly lines
A Spain-based technology company says it’s on its way to developing a straight-line, clean-energy transport system that uses magnetic energy to propel vehicles. Novateq
Cutting transport’s carbon footprint will take tech revolution
Keeping transport-related energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from ballooning out of control between now and 2050 will require a mix of improved fuel
Zero-emission fuel-cell scooter to make debut in Tokyo
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