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Graphene Supercapacitor Breakthrough Offers Energy Density Comparable to NiMH Battery!

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Graphene Supercapacitor Breakthrough Offers Energy Density Comparable to NiMH Battery!

Photo: Wikipedia , CC But With all the Advantages of Supercapacitors As you can see above, graphene is a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms, very similar to carbon nanotubes , except for the “tube” part. This wonder-material has very interesting electrical properties that have allowed researchers to create a graphene-based supercapacitor that exhibits a “specific energy density of 85.6 Wh/kg at room temperature and 136 Wh/kg at 80 … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Daimler May License Toyota’s Hybrid Technology

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Daimler May License Toyota’s Hybrid Technology

Photo: Daimler One Size Fits All? So far, Daimler has developed its own hybrid drivetrain technology. See, for example, the Mercedes S400 hybrid , which has the distinction of being the first mass-produced hybrid with a lithium-ion battery pack. But that might be about to change, according to the Nikkan Jidosha newspaper in Japan. It is claimed that Daimler and Toyota are currently negotiating a deal to license Toyota’s hybrid tech…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Battery-Testing Technique Could Mean Faster Electric Car R&D

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Flickr, CC Not Sexy But Useful Some of the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs are the invention of tools that allow you to make better tools, or to do research faster. The general public never sees these things, but it still reaps the benefits. A new technique to test electric car and hybrid car batteries more quickly might just be such a breakthrough, because it could allow engineers to know within weeks how a new battery chemistry performs instead of having to wait months or even years. A faster EV development cycle should drive down costs and increase the pace of innovatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chevy Volt Battery to Have 8 Years/100,000 Miles Warranty

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: General Motors Other Automakers Will Have to At Least Match It GM seems pretty confident that the Chevy Volt’s battery pack, which is based on LG Chem cells but is packaged by GM, will last a long time without too many problems. It has just announced that it will be offering a standard warranty of 8 years or 100,000 miles (whichever comes first) covering the all of the 161 battery components. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In California, the Prius Loses its Privilege

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Marcin Wichary /Flickr For years, owners of hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius enjoyed a special privilege: The free use of HOV-reserved lanes anytime of the day, regardless of the number of passengers. Thanks to new legislation signed by the Governor, however, this will change on December 31, 2010…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nissan Claims In-House Hybrid Tech 2-3x Better Than Toyota’s

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Wikipedia , Public domain. Nissan LEAF R&D Side Benefits? So far, Nissan has been licensing Toyota technology for its Altima hybrid. But that’s about to change for the next generation of Nissan and Infiniti hybrids, and it’s no big surprise considering how much R&D money Nissan has been spending on the LEAF electric car (a lot of what it learned can be used in hybrids). The first car to benefit from Nissan’s new hybrid drivetrain will be the Infiniti M sedan (coming late 2010), and the co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Debunking the GOP Claim that Cap and Trade is an "Energy Tax"

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Yesterday, I noted that a debate on cap and trade hosted by Salon produced the same predictable arguments from the “right” perspective — that cap and trade is “a job-killing energy tax” and so forth. I had a little fun with the regurgitated, keyword-laden arguments laid out by Steve Everley of American Solutions , and called them misleading. This evidently drew his ire (or it could have been because I misspelled his name — sorry about that). Either way, he responded to my post with a lengthy rebuttal in th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fisker to Make Electric Cars in Old GM Plant (Now That’s Recycling!)

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Michael Graham Richard Project NINA Moving Forward Just like Tesla ‘s future depends on its second car, the Model S electric sedan , the future of Fisker probably rests more on its second model (codename: NINA) than its first. Why is that? Because both companies are starting way up-market and, because of their hefty price-tags, those cars are … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Zero-Emissions Fuel Cell Hybrid Taxi Comes to London

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images by B. Alter Get ready London: the first zero-emissions fuel cell hybrid taxi has been unveiled. It’s more than a concept: there should be 150 on the road by 2012, just in time for the Olympics . These traditional looking black cabs have no carbon emissions which is a huge plus in a big city like London. Black cabs are going green. They will run on a hydrogen fuel cell system, which converts hydrogen into electricity and the only emission is water vapour. Breathe deep. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Toyota announces massive recall

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“Toyota’s president today announced plans for a global recall of more than 430,000 of its flagship Prius hybrid cars and a production suspension of a high-end Lexus model in a move that plunges the Japanese automaker into a new quality-control debacle.” added by: Philip_Robibero

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