Toyota will add solar roof to the next generation Prius

Posted on July 6, 2008. Filed under: car, energy, environment, photovoltaics, solar, transportation | Tags: , , , , , , |

Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars, becoming the first major automaker to use solar power for a vehicle, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
The paper said Toyota would equip solar panels on the roof of the high-end version of the Prius when it redesigns the gasoline-electric [...]

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Plugged-In Automotive Economy to intensify the water demand?

Posted on May 5, 2008. Filed under: Prius, alternative energy, environment, expantion, photovoltaics, toyota, transportation, wind energy | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Those are the arguments from Carey W. King and Michael E. Webber, from a published research work of February 20, 2008 at the American Chemical Society Publications. These two geologists working at Texas, are saying that converting light-duty vehicles from full gasoline power to electric power, either by converting hybrid electric vehicles to plug-in versions [...]

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Hope for Electrical Power Cars in your near future

Posted on May 3, 2008. Filed under: alternative energy, batteries, transportation | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today I will expose again the novel rechargeable batteries developed by A123 Systems. With their new technology they claim to have created a battery breakthrough with a technology that increases performance, packages with larger storage capacity and reducing the recharge times. These advances would hopefully open the door for some real progress in the adoption [...]

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Where the highest oil profits really coming from?

Posted on May 1, 2008. Filed under: alternative energy, energy, expantion, transportation | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Alternative energy resources have become a large capital generator and every year are gaining more market share in many countries and profits for the many investors involved in renewable markets are increasing rapidly even thought the cost of producing renewable still been many times higher than the current most of the widely used methods for [...]

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