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0Pedal Power: How bikes saved American roads 1278079380
2010 Mercedes-Benz Bicycles – Click above for high-res image galleryDespite what you may believe after driving through Detroit on I-75, we enjoy an excellent road system here in the United States. Few of us take the time to think about exactly where those roads came from or how the federal ... -
MIT researchers engineer viruses to split water in search of hydrogen 1271200800
The jury is still out on whether hydrogen-fueled cars will be a competitive alternative in the future. BMW still seems to think it will be. Honda hasn't given up on its FCX Clarity hydrogen car either. Cities like London are laying the preliminary groundwork for a network of hydrogen filling ...
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Gold, platinum and oxygen lead to lighter, more powerful lithium-air batteries 1270555020
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been focusing their efforts on advanced technology batteries for electric vehicles. Their work on lithium-air batteries has led to several recent discoveries, and gives "riding on air" a whole new meaning. Lithium-air ...
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Shocks that can save fuel, charge batteries and propel vehicles down the road? 1269706620
What if something as simple as a shock absorber could do much more than just absorb the impacts coming from the road? What if the shock could save fuel, charge batteries and even move vehicles down the road? Wouldn't you be interested? We certainly are. The idea of transferring road impact into ... -
MIT: Carbon nanotubes could make lighter, more powerful batteries 1269298560
One of the biggest weaknesses of today's battery technologies are their power-to-weight ratio. If you want to go fast or far, you need to carry a lot of heavy batteries with you. But a team of scientists from MIT have made a discovery that could signal the beginning of an entirely new age of ...
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DC 2010: EVA/DC displays tasty home-brewed electric car collection *UPDATE 1264721520
EVA/DC booth at EDTA 2010 – Click above for a high-res image galleryWhat you're looking at in the picture above is not an early Aptera prototype. Nope. What this is, is the Solar Aztec, an old solar race car built by MIT that the members of the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater ... -
Digital quantum batteries hold a lot of promise, theoretically 1261524180
Want a battery that recharges insanely fast and can hold more than ten times the energy of a lithium-ion battery? Then get in line for one of the digital quantum batteries that are being developed discussed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And don't forget to pack a lunch, ...
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One Gallon Challenge: alt-fuel "race" cars get up to 164 MPGe 1251154440
Dirigo - click for more images of the One Gallon ChallengeThis weekend's One Gallon Challenge in Massachusetts resulted in some pretty amazing fuel economy results. The five vehicles that took part in the race challenge (any line of of cars that starts "in stately, fuel-conserving style" can't ... -
In the future, we'll all be driving electric ... shopping carts? 1246377300
LOLrioKart - Click above to watch the video after the breakWhy waste a perfectly good used shopping cart when it can be recycled into something fun? Seeking to definitively answer that question is a twenty-year-old MIT student named Charles Guan who normally spends his free time building ... -
MIT working to eliminate phantom traffic jams [w/VIDEO] 1245369540
Phantom traffic jam - Click above to watch the video after the breakSeriously, how irritating is it when traffic inexplicably comes to a grinding halt for no apparent reason before starting right back up with no trace of a cause? Not only are these so-called phantom traffic jams the bane of many ...
