Green Technology Category - Page 10

The Prius is undoubdtedly one of Toyota’s more popular eco-friendly cars, but it’s not Toyota’s only fuel-saver. It’s also planning to upgrade its other smaller models, like the Yaris, with a hybrid system.

Honda has just announced the upcoming 2012 update to its compact Civic. While at first glance, the car might look like the current generation Civic from some angles, it’s actually a complete refresh. And the new Civic Hybrid gets better mileage, too.

Electric vehicles and plugin hybrids offer one inherent advantage: you can drive your car without consuming a drop of gasoline, as long as the battery has charge. But you still spend on electricity costs, right? AeroVironment wants to minimize that, too.

The electric vehicle field is one that is growing all the time thanks to people realizing that gas mileage, as well as electric vehicles really are the wave of the future. Where once only hybrids like the Prius existed in smaller quantities, there has been a concerted effort by many [...]

Having a flashy sports car doesn’t necessarily mean forgetting about saving the Earth. Porsche’s latest Boxster E will get you from naught to 60 in 5.3 seconds without the guilt.

How would you feel about travelling roads across the land down under all for $16? This is just what the Wind Explorer team did with its pod-like wind-powered car.

The great thing about the Mobile World Congress is that it gives rise to a host of new cell phones, and while you’ve seen some of these out at CES just a few weeks back, there are plenty more where they came from. Phones like the Umeox Apollo, an Android [...]

Plenty more news emerges out of the Mobile World Congress, and a tip of the hat is going out to Ericsson for their Community Power Solution, an interesting combination of green technologies that brings a whole lot of juice out to places that wouldn’t ordinarily have it.

Just three months after Nissan finally rolled out the much anticipated Leaf elective vehicle the car company is going to double down on its green efforts by finally unveiling what it is calling the ESFLOW. This particular model will overshadow the Leaf thanks in large part to the fact that [...]

One of the biggest trends that we might see in 2011 and beyond is ever more sports cars that are also fully electric. Automakers across the globe are beginning to realize the green car movement is only going to pick up steam if the drivers don’t constantly have to tool [...]