UK stores set up electric car recharge
Friday, November 6th, 2009A major UK supermarket chain has installed a network of electric car recharging points at its London stores.
Archive for November 6th, 2009
What about solar power -Coalition
Friday, November 6th, 2009$235m boost for renewable energy highlights the federal govt’s lack of action on solar power -Coalition.
Developer: Proposed wind farm site is too windy
Friday, November 6th, 2009A wind-power company says a western Maine site it’s been looking at is too windy for turbines. First Wind’s Matthew Kearns told a public meeting in Rumford on Thursday that its proposed Longfellow wind farm on Black Mountain and North and South Twin mountains may not be viable.
Renault to make electric car in Spain
Friday, November 6th, 2009French auto maker Renault said on Friday it would build its new electric car based on the Twizy Z.E. Concept at its Valladolid plant in northern Spain.
T. Boone Pickens: U.S. natural gas supply may dry up within 30 years
Friday, November 6th, 2009DALLAS - T. Boone Pickens, who has spent more than a year telling Americans the answer to their energy woes is natural gas, says the U.S. natural gas supply will probably…
Our DIY EV Conversion Gets a Curvaceous Bod
Friday, November 6th, 2009Wired.com’s EV conversion project is in full swing with the purchase of a beautiful body: a $500, sky-blue, 1967 Volkswagen Beetle.
CERC’s green power rate norms hurt Gujarat’s solar power plans
Friday, November 6th, 2009The new rate charge norms for ‘green’ energy, announced by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) in September, are likely to delay the Gujarat government’s plans for solar power capacity addition.
Obama evoked the ghost of Reagan but only gets his unemployment nightmare
Friday, November 6th, 2009Top of the News: During last year’s campaign, Barack Obama angered Democrats by implying he wanted to be a transformative president like Ronald Reagan. Now he has one thing in common with Dutch: An unemployment rate of 10.2 percent. The last time we saw that was during the first Reagan term, when he urged the nation to “stay the course.”
Local Motors Rally Fighter: The First-Ever Creative Commons Car [New Cars]
Friday, November 6th, 2009This is Local Motors’ Rally Fighter, the first car openly developed and built using crowd-sourcing. It will change the auto industry forever. More importantly for me, with its P-51 fighter…
Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive Announce Plans for Electric City Car Program
Friday, November 6th, 2009LONDON, Nov. 5 — Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive today announced an all-electric 3-seater city car, made possible through a 4.5m pounds Sterling (US $7.48M) investment from the UK-backed Technology Strategy Board.
