Maxwell & SK to Develop Integrated Lithium Ion Battery-Ultracapacitor

Maxwell Technologies announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SK Innovation, a subsidiary of SK Holdings and Ko...

BMW, Boeing team up on carbon fiber research

Germany's BMW AG and Boeing Co. have agreed to work together to tackle the challenges of carbon fiber manufacturing and recycling. Both ...

GM Powertrain Innovation: Driven by Modeling and Simulation [VIDEO]

Gary Smyth, executive director of GM's Science Labs, discusses the successes GM has made and continues to make in developing advanced po...

Teijin Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Plant Begins Operations

Teijin Limited announced today that it has begun operating a pilot plant for the fully integrated production of carbon fiber reinforced ther...

Close-Up look at the 4WD DUT12 Formula Student racer [VIDEO]

The DUT12 is the second electric car of the DUT Racing team. The DUT 12 has four-wheel-drive system introduced this year. This makes it pos...

MIT researchers find a way to boost lithium-air battery performance [VIDEO]

Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery wei...

Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicles

Automakers are always searching for ways to improve the efficiency, and therefore the range, of electric vehicles. One way to do this is to ...

Volvo Developing Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles

The Swedish car manufacturer has announced the development of an energy transfer technology that uses electromagnetic fields. Long term, Vol...

WiTricity Secures Additional $25 Million in Funding

WiTricity announced today it has secured $25 million in Series E financing from new and existing investors, including Intel Capital and Hon ...

World’s First All-Electric Propulsion Satellite Begins Operations

The world’s first all-electric propulsion satellite, built by Boeing for Bermuda-based ABS, is now operational after an on-orbit handover on...

Bosch buys solid state battery start-up Seeo

German industrial conglomerate Bosch is acquiring Silicon Valley battery firm Seeo, including all of its intellectual property and research ...

UK To Test Dynamic Wireless Charging For Electric Cars

Electric cars promise a greener future. But current battery technology limits how far you can go on a single charge. One possible workaround...

Buckeye Bullet 3 to Attempt 400 MPH Electric Vehicle Speed Record

Last year Ohio State’s streamlined Buckeye Bullet supercar made headlines as it shattered the world speed record for an electric vehicle by ...

UQM Receive $3M DOE Grant to Develop Non-rare-earth EV motors

UQM will develop a unique motor design to use non-rare-earth magnets --Non-rare-earth magnets may lower overall motor cost while providing b...

Nanosys Receives $11 Million Funding From U.S. Department of Energy

Nanostart-holding Nanosys, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded it funds to refine and bring to scale i...

GE gets $5.9M research grant to develop non-rare earth EV motors

The General Electric Global Research Center has been awarded a $5.9 million grant for advanced vehicle technology by the U.S. Department of ...

DOE Awards $175 Million in Vehicle Efficiency Development Grants

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the DOE is providing more than $175 million to 40 projects across 15 states over the next th...

World's Fastest Charging Electric Bus Takes 10 seconds to Charge

The world's fastest charging electric buses, that takes just 10 seconds to be fully charged, were put into operation for the first time ...

TRANSLOGIC get to sample the EPIC 232se Electric Sport Boat [video]

Aol's Translogic web TV series get the chance to put the EPIC 232se electric sport boat to the test with World Champion wakeboarder Jeff...

Fisker promises Bugatti Veyron levels of performance

The Fisker Karma is still MIA, but that hasn't stopped the company from having grand ambitions. According to CEO Henrik Fisker, engineer...