PNNL aims to make EV cabin heating more energy efficient

Engineers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known as the PNNL, in Richland, Wash., are conducting research that could make EV ca...

Sevcon and Flextronics Automotive Join Forces on EV Powertrains

Sevcon, and Flextronics Automotive today announced that they have entered into a cooperation agreement to provide hybrid and electric vehicl...

£22m venture to help small firms commercialise low carbon automotive technologies

A new £21.8m initiative aimed at boosting component manufacturing in the automotive sector has been launched. 'The Proving Factory' ...

IBM to unveil 'moonshot' Lithium Air Battery

IBM plans to build a prototype next year of an alternative it calls “ lithium air ” that would mark a big step forward by packing in more s...

The Super Supercapacitor [VIDEO]

THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to mak...

Electric Bus Conversion - Jay Leno's Garage [VIDEO]

Macy Neshati takes Jay through Complete Coach Works' all-electric, zero-emission city bus conversion. It's homegrown ingenuity desig...

Batteries of the Future - Lithium-Air [VIDEO]

The mechanics of lithium air battery technology illustrated by Don Siegel, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University o...

Batteries of the Future - FULL [VIDEO]

Professor Don Siegel, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, discusses what adv...

Bosch and partners launch project to develop 250 Wh/kg EV batteries

Robert Bosch GmbH and other partners BASF, Wacker Chemie AG, SGL Group, Daimler AG and BMW AG have launched a joint project named Alpha Laio...

First car ferry powered by battery electric drive system

Together with the Norwegian shipyard Fjellstrand, Siemens has developed the world's first electrically powered car ferry. The 80-meter v...