Photo: Ford A Brand New Model With an Electric Version from the Start The 2012 Ford Focus electric , which we now know will use LG Chem batteries , won’t be launched everywhere at once when it comes out in late 2011. Ford has studied various regions of the US to find those that best meet certain criteria (like existing hybrid purchase trends, utility compa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ford Announces Markets Where Focus Electric Will be Available in Late 2011
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Image: GM I Have a Special Request for GM To promote the launch of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, 6 Volts are about to embark on a cross-country tour. Over 3,400 miles and stops in 12 major cities are planned (see the schedule below), with special events where people will be able to do test-drives and talk to GM engineers. It all sounds good, but there’s something I’d like to request from GM and that I think would make this whole thing a lot more interested: Once all this is all over, I’d like GM to release details on how many gallons of gasoline and how many kWh of electricity were used during this ro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Chevy Volt Goes on a Tour of the USA
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“Imagine a car whose body also serves as a rechargeable battery.” One of the main challenges with electric cars is that batteries are bulky and heavy. Volvo is trying to solve that problem by turning a car’s body panels into an energy storage device, an idea that, if feasible, would kill two birds with one stone by freeing up space inside the car and making it relatively lighter…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Volvo Working on Storing Energy in a Car’s Body Panels
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Photo: Flickr , CC You Just Have to Listen Closely Scientists from Exeter University and Bristol University might have just found a new way to evaluate the condition of coral reefs. It’s pretty simple when you think about it: You just listen. Indeed, each reef has its own noise signature, and reefs with more corals and fish generate predictably greater levels of noise. By analyzing the sound, you can find out lots of things about both the fish and the corals. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Noisy Coral Reefs = Healthy Coral Reefs?
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Yes, But Look at the Bigger Picture According to a study by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, if the U.S. wants to significantly reduce its oil consumption, it should prioritize the fast adoption of electric cars over ” the proposed national renewable portfolio standard”. This makes a lot of sense, as a renewable portfolio standard would mostly have an impact on electricity production and not liquid fuels, but what the st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Electric Cars Best Way to Reduce Oil Consumption, Study Says
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Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky, as part of the Cape Farewell project . “Whosoever will be an enquirer into Nature let him resort to a conservatory of Snow or Ice.” – Francis Bacon OK—so here I am in the High Arctic with Cape Farewell , creating a series of drafts for several compositions that I’ll eventually turn into several string quartet pieces, a gallery show, and a symphony out of the experience. I’m looking at how to collect… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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DJ Spooky Makes Music From Melting Glacial Ice
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Photo via Todd Huffman What happens when data is available for anyone to access and use? What happens when projects are open source so people can contribute their skills to improve it? We’re now more than ever connected to a wealth of information stored literally at our fingertips — if we can access it. So the concept of sharing is useful beyond creating tool libraries or Zipcar services. Sharing, when extended to information, can do amazing things, from creating fascinating mash-ups of data to expl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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11 Open Source Projects that Make Free Information Rock
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Photo via Flickr For most of history, life on New Zealand was pretty easy for the island’s native bird species — until the arrival of humans and the invasive species they brought with them, that is. These birds had no natural predators on land to worry about, which may have caused some of them, like the
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Deodorant May Help Save Stinky Endangered Birds
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Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Joy Guillemot, an ecological anthropologist and environmental health scientist currently completing a PhD at Johns Hopkins, as part of the Cape Farewell project . “Bring only your passport and dress extremely warmly. The helicopter will arrive in 40 minutes.” Before it was announced, I had already prepared my things to abandon ship. Danger was not retreating against the running clock, and the highly skilled crew was anxious. I felt a bit silly being hyper-prepared, but flashbacks of working i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Cape Farewell Expedition’s Brush with Disaster
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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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