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Tesla Model S Electric Car Reservations Numbers More Than One Thousand

Tesla Motors surpassed 1,000 reservations for the Model S, an all-electric family sedan that carries up to seven people and travels up to 300 miles per charge

12 May 2009

Maximum Efficiency Comes From Bioelectricity Not Ethanol For Powering Vehicles

How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol

10 May 2009

Turning Biomass Into Electricity More Efficient Than Using Ethanol for Vehicles

A new study suggests that biomass used to generate electricity could be more efficient than converting the biomass to ethanol for internal combustion engines

10 May 2009

Argonne National Lab Researchs Win Award for New Battery System

Three scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have won an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for a battery system expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as America's dependence of imported oil

10 May 2009

Thin Film Batteries, The Future Market

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst based here, today announced the release of "Thin-Film Batteries: Current and Future Markets 2009-2016."

7 May 2009

Ford To Spend $550 Million to Build New Global Small Cars, Electric Vehicle at Michigan Plant

Ford Motor Company said today it is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a lean, green and flexible manufacturing complex that will build Ford's next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market

6 May 2009

New Battery Technology to Revolutionise Electric Vehicles

Thousands of small electric scooters, bicycles and wheelchairs throughout Europe and Asia are powered by LifePO4 - a material used in advanced lithium-ion batteries developed by Université de Montréal researchers

5 May 2009

Energy Frontier Research Center to be Established at Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University will be home to the new Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center (NOCESC), which involves a team of experimentalists and theorists

4 May 2009

Recharging Electric Vehicles Simplified With Smart Charger Controller

PNNL's Smart Charger Controller simplifies electric vehicle recharging, protects the grid and saves consumers money; device automatically activates the vehicle's battery to recharge at times of least stress on the grid

4 May 2009

Greenhouse Gas Storage and Revolutionary Solar Cells to be Developed With New Grants

With two $15 million grants, scientists and engineers aim to revolutionize solar cells and provide the fundamental science for geological storage of greenhouse gases as part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S. Department of Energy

29 Apr 2009