Bicycles are indeed one of the best ways to get around town, particularly if you live in a dense urban area where the streets are usually packed with chunks of metal on wheels. In such situations, hopping on a tiny two-wheeler and zipping through traffic is fabulously practical indeed. Which is why, we simply love the Swiss company Volitude SA’s V1 fold-up pedal assisted electric bicycle.
If you haven’t heard of this yet, electricity continues to flow through cables if left plugged in, even after the device connected is switched off. Leaving devices plugged in at home could indeed increase the length of your electricity bill and burn a deeper hole in your pocket. As a solution to this problem that could otherwise be easily avoided with a little bit of effort on our parts, designers Soheyl Ghiami, Kourosh Mahdavi, Elmira Cheraghi, Saba Saboursadeghzadeh & Yasna Kalantar have come up with an efficient device called the PowerCutter.
Generating energy from gushing water isn’t new. However, the engineers from the PolyU’s Department of Building Services Engineering and the Water Supplies Department (WSD) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government have come up with a fantastic concept that uses the principal of hydroelectricity to generate energy from an untapped and promising source of clean energy, water passing through pipes!
Wireless charging is indeed one of the most promising developments in automotive technology. Systems like these could make juicing up electric cars of the future a lot easier. All drivers will be required to do further ahead is drive their car over a charging pad and fill up their electric cars with clean and renewable energy! Now, Raleigh in North Carolina has adopted the technology and is easily one of the pioneers of wireless car charging on a larger scale.
Carbon fiber, better known has one of the strongest and lightest materials used to build stuff today, is quickly finding its place in more and more applications besides the automobile industry. Currently, German automobile giant BMW, uses carbon fiber in the manufacture of the M3, M5 and M6 models. The company also plans to use full carbon fiber passenger cells for the i3 electric car and the i8 plug-in hybrid-electric sports car in the future. With all of this, the disposal or recycling of carbon components arises.
Wireless charging is the way ahead, and we’ve been proclaiming it to be so since quite a while now. Using this concept, Utah State University’s Wireless Power Transfer team came up with a feasible way to mass transportation that could soon give cities a cleaner way to move commuters around. Called the Aggie Bus, this one functions just like a regular gas-powered bus. The difference is its electricity-powered insides and the way it charges up!
If you’ve been under the impression that your SUV is a gas-guzzler and environment killer unlike any other, here’s a bit of respite. Your metal-chunk-on-wheels certainly isn’t the most polluting modes of transport today. James Corbett, professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, recently figured ships to be one of the major causes of environmental pollution, a fact we’re sure is true!
The freedom a handset like the iPhone 4S gives you is extraordinary. With GPS you can navigate your way anywhere, and with features like Face Time and social networking apps, you can stay connected and run your life on the move.
In a world with quickly depleting fossil fuels, looking for alternate ways to generate electricity is the need of the hour! Recently, researchers from the Stony Brook University have come up with a device that generates electricity from vibrations. When extensively used on railways tracks, these simple devices are help generate clean and green renewable electricity!
Nissan has given its lovable green car, the Leaf, an overhaul. The new 2013 version of the car sports a whopping 142 mile range on a single charge as per the JC08 test mode, increasing nearly by 20 miles from the previous Leaf. The 2013 model comes with regenerative brakes and lower weight high-voltage unit that help increase the car’s efficiency. That apart, the car’s motor now uses a combined powertrain unit with integrated functions, streamlined battery module and case structure.
