Zap is a California based company that is riding the current trend to produce more and more alternative fuel-based vehicles. Zap which stands for Zero Air Pollution® has recently announced the ZAP Alias and the Zap-X Crossover SUV. They have joined up with Lotus Design in order to create some interesting new designs. The ZAP-X [...]

In the continuing search for more energy sources the Australian company CSIRO has managed to make bio-fuel out of various types of trash. Using forest thinnings, waste paper, crop residue and garden waste they have worked out a technique to convert this into fuel. Granted this is still in the test mode and will be [...]

General Motors is banking on rising gas prices and Americas love of trucks in order to sell their new hybrids. GM is stating that they have increased gas mileage by 25% without losing performance in the 2009 GMC Sierra. They are using the touted two-mode system that they developed for the 2008 Chevy Tahoe, GMC [...]

Some intelligent people at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre have come up with an interesting way to monitor people that have had head trauma. It is a portable EEG (Electroencephalography) system that looks somewhat like a stereo headset with miniature solar cells on it. They have managed to make a hybrid power supply by using the [...]

I know I have been talking quite a bit about nanotubes in the last couple months. The truth of the matter is that we seem to be on the verge of a technological battery revolution. There are many companies researching carbon nanotubes in conjunction with batteries as these wonders have an amazing potential for what [...]

Since Sony has been declared the winner in the High Definition format war, there are many companies scrambling to add this awesome new toy to our computers and laptops. Anyone that had the first generation of Blu-ray drives on their laptops knows that if you were going to play a Blu-ray disc you had better [...]

The brains over at MIT have been trying to come up with a replacement technology to the good old battery. For the most part batteries really haven’t changed much since Alessandro Volta came up with the basic battery back in 1800. Granted there are many new chemistries, new materials, shapes and sizes. Now what MIT [...]

Granted this news has been out amongst the web since the end of February, I just now read it. Now I know the title of this sounds like a new joke from Larry the Cable Guy. However it is actually a fairly apt description of a new device that was showed at the Cleantech Forum [...]

Anyone that’s been to the gas pump recently knows the cost of gas is just insane. Seeing as the national price per gallon of regular gas is over $3.08 and $3.37 for premium, it is hitting us all in the pocketbook. There are several companies working on better batteries for the gas-electric hybrids that are [...]

As I continue to look around for new battery technologies, and improvements to old technologies I’ve read about improved Lithium-Ion batteries that are being developed by Argonne National Laboratory.
As I understand it they are using different chemicals to achieve a stronger, longer lasting battery. Using a new composite and a manganese electrode they are able [...]