Green Technology Category - Page 6

No matter how fuel-efficient your internal combustion engine is, it will inevitably waste some energy in the form of heat. To make engines more eco-friendly, auto manufacturers are experimenting with harnessing energy from a car’s exhaust gas.

For those of you who’ve been wanting to get behind the wheel of something electric but just couldn’t manage to actually, you know, find one, we’ve got some good news for you. The folks out at GM have just released some new numbers, and if you’ve been meaning to lay [...]

We earlier wrote about the maiden flight of Solar Impulse, a manned four-engine, 3,500 lbs plane that runs on solar power. Just recently, the Solar Impulse completed its first international flight.

Power is often a problem experienced by notebook and netbook users. While new laptops boast of day-long battery life, what happens when electricity is a concern in the first place?

It’s not every day that a concept car goes into wide release. In fact, that really almost never happens. But sometimes it does, and when that concept happens to be the Jaguar C-X75, then that’s two reasons to pay attention.

For those of you who think that all electric cars are still just basically glorified golf carts that handle and drive accordingly, you’ll likely be pretty surprised to hear that one of them just broke a record today. The Peugeot EX1 electric vehicle just managed to clear 85.9 miles an [...]

Hard drives can be sensitive to bumps and drops. This is especially true for external hard drives, as they’re often transported in bags. Buffalo’s latest shock-resistant hard drives will help keep your data safe.

Eventually, in the grand future world Toyota and WiTricity are envisioning, we’ll all just be able to set stuff down in a room and let the mysterious forces of wireless chargers pump juice back into them while we sleep. And this will even apply to our electric vehicles, or so [...]

If you live in Los Angeles and you’ve been meaning to get in on the electric vehicle craze, then we’ve got some good news for you today. But you’re going to have to move quickly to take advantage of said good news, because it’s a bit on the transient side.

Spark plugs have part of petrol-fed internal combustion engines for the longest time. But as automotive engineers look into greneener vehicles, will lasers help solve the puzzle of inefficient fuel burn?