Green Technology Category - Page 8

For those of you who thought that CTIA was going to be a huge romp of cell phones and precious little else, well, I’ve got just what you’ve been looking for: car news. Really! Turns out the folks at Ford are getting in league with the crew out at AT&T [...]

Does anybody still read user manuals these days? Because EA Sports thinks you’re probably just looking for walkthroughs online, they’ve ditched printed manuals. It’s great for the environment, too.

Green technology is as much about finding more efficient ways to utilize existing technologies as it is about finding alternatives (like electric, hybrid and alternative fuels). For one, Mercedez-Benz has designed lean-burning engines, but says US fuels are not clean enough.

Perhaps the most backhanded guarantee ever comes to us from the folks out at Renault, who have introduced their “Get You Home” guarantee, but when you look further at the guarantee, you’ll discover that it really doesn’t cover you as much as you might think.

Way back around the time Napoleon was conquering hefty swathes of Europe, the prevailing wisdom said that an army marches on its stomach. And indeed, that’s the case to this very day, though now it’s being amplified to included “an army marches with a whole lot of gadgets”. GPS systems, [...]

Advocates of nuclear energy have been highlighting the green benefits of nuclear power. Sure, there’s no carbon being burned, no fossil fuels being depleted, and it’s energy that lasts hundreds of years. But what if a catastrophe happens?

We haven’t had a lot of electric car news of late, so it’s good to catch word of the big event that GE’s launching on to promote its line of electric car chargers, the WattStation. They’re calling it the EV Experience Tour, and if you wanted to get a charger [...]

This solar table by Panasonic can charge your devices without the need for wires. And because it’s solar-powered, you can save on electricity bills.

Tesla is facing increased competition in the electric car space in North America this year as he Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt are slowly starting to show up here. Just on cue, Tesla has announced some preliminary pricing and availability information regarding the Model S – that’s their four-door sedan offering. The Model S [...]

If you’ve ever been through a power outage of any length before, you will likely already know what I’m about to tell you: it is no fun. Even if the weather outside is perfect and you don’t need to worry about cooking alive in your house or your water pipes [...]