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Volts should come with generators?

While perusing the interwebs for interesting stories, we stumbled upon a letter to the editors at Automotive News that suggests the Chevy Volt should come with a generator. We're pretty sure that they are not talking about the built-in generator that the car uses to recharge its batteries on-the-fly. Rather, what's being suggested is that General Motors package the Chevy Volt with a gas-powered standalone generator that could recharge its batteries if the need arises. Um, where should we start on this one. First of all, that would be ... Read more →

A kinetic energy generator ... what uses can you come up with? Jeremy Korzeniewski

The idea of capturing the energy of vibrations and storing it is not new, but here is another attempt at the idea, courtesy of Gizmag. Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University of Southampton have ...

Sometimes good ideas just deserve to get coverage... Jeremy Korzeniewski

I am not going to write too much about this invention, because any reasons that I could come up with for it having to do with automobiles are pretty weak. But, we do often mention solar power and ...

Download the new version to upgrade your vehicle's fuel efficiency Dane Muldoon

In terms of efficiency, cars driven by humans are fickle. There's only ever one optimal accelerator position for the best fuel efficiency, no matter what gear you're in. This leads to the situation ...

Volts should come with generators? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While perusing the interwebs for interesting stories, we stumbled upon a letter to the editors at Automotive News that suggests the Chevy Volt should come with a generator. We're pretty sure that they are not talking about the built-in generator that the car uses to recharge its batteries ...

A kinetic energy generator ... what uses can you come up with? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The idea of capturing the energy of vibrations and storing it is not new, but here is another attempt at the idea, courtesy of Gizmag. Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University of Southampton have created this version of the kinetic energy generator. The last time we discussed this idea, it was ...

Sometimes good ideas just deserve to get coverage... 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I am not going to write too much about this invention, because any reasons that I could come up with for it having to do with automobiles are pretty weak. But, we do often mention solar power and wind power when we are writing our posts, and I just thought that this idea is too good to pass up ...

Download the new version to upgrade your vehicle's fuel efficiency 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In terms of efficiency, cars driven by humans are fickle. There's only ever one optimal accelerator position for the best fuel efficiency, no matter what gear you're in. This leads to the situation where the imprecise driving of humans is responsible for lowered fuel efficiency and performance. But ...


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