Other possibilities include smartphone integration, a heads-up display, inductive charging and an anti-theft system. While electric scooters are considerably cheaper and easier to park than... Read more
Imaging reveals what happens during charging; could lead to improved batteries for electric cars One of the most promising new kinds of battery to power electric cars is called a lithium-air... Read more
A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The new plastic has other... Read more
It gets charged while running, idling, and parking, enabling a reduction in size of the reserve battery down to one-fifth of the battery on board a regular electric car. The Korea Advanced I... Read more
When Patrick Langevoort’s company issued him an electric vehicle two years ago, the first months were filled with misadventure: he found himself far from Amsterdam, with only a 25 percent ch... Read more
A new “smart highway” being developed in the Netherlands has lane lines made by lights that can be altered and even lights up a warning when it gets icy. Innovation in transporta... Read more
The greenest cars on the market —electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids — have attracted very few buyers so far. But instead of scaling back, major automakers are eager to bring more battery-... Read more
Since America’s love affair with cars really got rolling after World War II, nothing but a gasoline-burning internal combustion engine would do. Until now. The gearheads at Motor Trend have... Read more
UBC researchers came up with so-called “remote magnetic gears,” Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they’ve found a way around the nuisance and potential... Read more
A liquid-nitrogen car is likely to be considerably cheaper to build than an electric vehicle A COUPLE of dozen electric cars with fuel cells under the bonnet (in place of the more usual flat... Read more
Until there’s some huge revolution in battery technology, electric vehicles are destined to remain as urban runabouts, never going out on long highway trips … right? Well, not if Germa... Read more
“We believe this discovery is ripe for commercialization” Engineering Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Use Intentionally Blemished Graphene Paper To Create Easy-To-Make,... Read more
“I think we’ve got better than a 50-50 chance,” Akerson said, “to develop a car that will go to 200 miles on a charge” A small battery company backed by General... Read more
Its makers claim it is the first drive-from-wheelchair electric car. Though its undoubtedly true to say that mobility vehicles designed for wheelchair access exist, like AM General’s M... Read more
Air-breathing lithium batteries that go far beyond the capacity of current power packs may be in the offing A rechargeable, air-breathing battery that can store up to 10 times the energy of... Read more
