The MINI people have announced their 100% electric, zero-emissions car, and a New York field trial program to go along with it. They’re looking for 500 people in the area who want to be “motoring pioneers” — sounds pretty exciting, right? Wrong. While the prospect of electric cars hitting the streets is exciting, one look at the laborious application and FAQ section and you’ll quickly …
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the i MiEV , the word from the street (or, in this case, Wired ) is that four of the cartoonish vehicles are on their way to SoCal Edison, where their Electric Vehicle Technical Center will put ‘em through their paces, testing not only the vehicles themselves but how they interact with the grid. Not that the car will be selling Stateside any time soon — …
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) — Batteries with limited storage capacity are the main hurdle to Germany’s goal of putting 5 million electric cars on its roads by 2030, the transportation and environment ministers said.
Despite the historic victory of Barack Obama in the Presidential elections and ‘the change’ he has promised, Unites State’s foreign policy would continue to be guided by its national interest as it has been since World War II, feels former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra.Chairing a discussion on ‘Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Impact on Asian Security Framework’ at Observer Research Foundation, …
Despite the historic victory of Barack Obama in the Presidential elections and ‘the change’ he has promised, Unites State’s foreign policy would continue to be guided by its national interest as it has been since World War II, feels former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra.Chairing a discussion on ‘Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Impact on Asian Security Framework’ at Observer Research Foundation, …
As efforts to bridge the demand-supply gap currently dogging Botswana continue, the Department of Energy Affairs (DEA) is spearheading plans for a possible 200-megawatt (MW) solar power station.
People are getting increasingly creative in their legitimization of massive amounts of government money propping up the U.S. auto industry. One anonymous individual wrote in with a detailed plan of how to save G.M. (and the U.S. economy, and the American auto worker) on GM-Volt.com, parts of which seem workable and prudent. ..
TORONTO, Nov. 25 (UPI) — A public hearing on building a 60-turbine wind farm offshore of Toronto in Lake Ontario drew an overflow and divided crowd of 1,000 people.
FAIRFAX, Va.—-ExxonMobil is pleased to announce today that its employees and companies in the Metropolitan D.C. area have set a campaign record by raising over $2.49 million for non-profits during its recently concluded “Employees’ Favorite Charities Campaign.”
Judging from the dialogue, it’s tempting to reduce the acrimony over Toronto Hydro’s wind turbine proposal to myopic, not-in-my-backyard isolationism.
