solar
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Hyundai Home is a coordinated home-energy ecosystem bundling EV charging, solar power, and battery energy storage.
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Racer and hot rodder creates charging solution for electric cars
Change Wind Corporations Wind & Solar Array can reduce electrical grid demand and charge up to six electric cars at once.
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Why don't solar-powered cars exist?
The sun can power many things, but it takes a lot of math to realize it's not ideal for powering cars.
Stephen Edelstein -
Aptera claims its solar-powered electric three-wheeler needs no charging
Aptera says its three-wheeled electric car can be charged by solar energy alone.
Stephen Edelstein -
Science Turns Solar Cells Into So Much Krylon
Solar panels are popular for everything from heating water to charging electric cars like the Tesla [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S, but they can be expensive to manufacture and hard to install. Soon, though, you may be able to spray solar cells onto a surface to collect energy from the sun. Researchers at the...
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A New Use For (Parts From) Old Cars: Build Yourself A House
A Berkeley, California architecture firm has incorporated sheet metal and side windows from scrapped cars into an architecturally unique and energy-efficient home.
Kurt Ernst -
Solar panel technology has, thus far, not been of much use for automobiles. You may be able to specify a small solar panel on the 2011 Nissan Leaf or 2012 Toyota Prius, but it's mainly used to top up the energy needed to power accessories such as your air conditioning or in-car entertainment. As a system for charging electric vehicles from your home however, solar is much more effective, particularly for those in sunny climates. Houses have much larger areas to which solar panels can be mounted. As it turns out though, they aren't as efficient as they could be, thanks to a discovery made by a...
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What's That Ecco? High Tech, Green, Electric Camper Van
Going straight onto All Car Tech's list of things we want is a new electric camper van by design collective NAU, known as Ecco. Describing it as a camper van almost doesn't do it justice, though. The teardropped vehicle is more like a Transformer, changing from efficient and spacious vehicle into a...
Antony Ingram -
NASCAR Weekend At Infineon A Little Greener With Solar Power
It might seem ironic that on the weekend the NASCAR Cup series visited Infineon Raceway in Northern California, the circuit chose to announce the completion of its large solar arrays. As over forty NASCAR racers tore around the circuit for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on Saturday and Sunday, spectators...
Antony Ingram -
Solar Windows For Buildings: Will Cars Get The Tech Next?
A Californian start-up has just received an award of $100,000 as part of the "GE ecomagination Challenge" for an energy-saving idea that could change the way that buildings are constructed. Pythagoras Solar from San Mateo has created windows laced with solar cells and the potential benefits for...
Antony Ingram -
Audi Demonstrates Solar Powered Charging Stations For EVs
Electric vehicle backers love to tout the fact that the so-called green vehicles don’t produce any emissions and don’t rely on dirty fossil fuels dug up out of the ground, but at the end of the day their electrical energy has to come from somewhere--and more often than not it comes from...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran