The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices, but those devices are still powered by being tethered to a wall or a reserve power pack. What...
Flexible nanogenerator harvests muscle movement to power mobile devices
What is the real range of an electric car? Tesla helps us find the answer.
The last few years have been very kind to electric cars, mostly thanks to the ice-breaking carried out by the Toyota Prius hybrid, and then the runaway...
Solar and wind power are now fully cost competitive with fossil fuels – is it time to switch over?
Renewable energy production has boomed across the globe in recent years, driven by improvements to solar and wind turbines, increased economies of scale, and in some cases,...
Tesla starts offering Model S battery swaps, for fast ‘refueling’ at Supercharger stations
Way back in the summer of 2013, Elon Musk showed off a new piece of tech that could swap the battery of a Tesla Model S in...
The Netherlands has laid the world’s first solar road – we go eyes-on to investigate
Earlier this week, the first solar roadway opened in Amsterdam — a 70-meter stretch of cycle path between two suburbs of the city that generates solar power from...
Mercedes hydrogen-electric hybrid harvests solar and wind energy with its paint job
Concept cars are often amazing, as gifted engineers are given free reign to create a car that could never realistically succeed on the open market. Concept cars tend...