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Altairnano to get tested in Designline hybrid buses

The lithium titanate batteries by Altairnano has been tried in powerstations, trucks and even a dragster and will soon have the opportunity to prove their metal in a hybrid bus application. The company has announced that they have received an order for four demo battery packs by the innovative bus maker Designline International, who will shell out a hefty $540,000 for this initial order. While one of the 44 KWh packs will be used for modular testing, the other three will be installed in Ecosaver IV buses (pictured above) where they will be ... Read more →

New Zealand Prime Minister goes for a ride in an i MiEV, falls in love Domenick Yoney

There's nothing like a real-life introduction to get the love sparks flying. Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand happened to be in Japan the other day when she was invited to take a ride in ...

A raft of microturbine hybrid buses to be built in North Carolina Domenick Yoney

There seems to be tons of innovative technologies being proposed, tried and tested these days. Some of the wilder ideas disappear quickly while others, which were thought to have gone extinct, make a ...

Micro-turbine hybrid bus meets Mickey Mouse Domenick Yoney

While spending the wee hours trying to dig up more information on a deal reported in The Earth News between micro-turbine maker Capstone and Italian bus builder Eco Power Technology, I came across an ...

Tindo solar-powered bus makes its debut in Adelaide Sebastian Blanco

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Solar_powered_bus_makes_its_debut'; Where might you go if you were the world's first solar-powered electric bus? Somehow, the Adelaide City Council has convinced ...


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