For those who may not have noticed, TAG Heuer, the Swiss creator of really expensive timepieces (is that redundant?) has branched out into other really expensive stuff, namely eyewear. Its latest effort is a new type of “Night Vision” lense that is…
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Nevada professor develops new solar hydrogen production method
As a fuel, hydrogen is wonderful thing because burning it or consuming it in a fuel cell produces only water as exhaust and it has good energy density when the gas is compressed. However, producing and storing hydrogen is problematic, to say the…
Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only £6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh!
If a report in the Times of London is accurate, it would go a long way toward explaining Nissan's claims that the Leaf electric car will be profitable at just $33,000. The report, which focuses mainly on Nissan executive Andy Palmer, states that the…
Report: Next-gen Mercedes-Benz S-class to launch with plug-in hybrid
Mercedes-Benz Vision 500 Plug-in HYBRID – Click above for high-res image gallery
Mercedes-Benz only recently launched its first production hybrid in the form of the S400 BlueHybrid, and it's already working on the next generation of its flagship…
Travelers want to be able to rent hybrids
Priceline.com, the website that helps their customers find cut-rate travel deals for air-fare, hotels, and rental cars recently surveyed their customers for Earth Day. Seventy-two percent of respondents indicated that they wanted to be able to rent…
VIDEO: Bob Lutz is “Super-Pumped” about the progress on the Volt
GM's product development chief Bob Lutz is one of only a handful of people to have driven the first Chevy Volt development mules with the full lithium ion battery pack in place. The mules have now been dubbed Mali-Volts alluding to the Malibu body…
Read the rest of John True's unhappy hybrid story after the jump
Southern California musician John True recently filed suit against American Honda Motor Company over their mileage claims for the Civic Hybrid. In an era of rising fuel costs he thought the hybrid would help save some money but his new car failed to…
Chevrolet Volt, Holden EFIJY concepts win 2007 Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards
At a ceremony last week at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, MI, General Motors won two awards for its recent concept vehicles. The Chevy Volt won in the category of best Specialty concept and also got the Most Significant Concept of the Year.…
Tesla Roadster gets Gold International Design Excellence Award
The Industrial Designer's Society of America (ISDA) and BusinessWeek have chosen the Tesla Roadster to receive a Gold IDEA award. ISDA gives the awards annually in a variety of categories and the Roadster won in the EcoDesign category. A jury made up…
First sugar beet ethanol plant opens in the UK
The first sugar beet-fueled ethanol production facility has opened in eastern England near Norfolk. The opening of the plant operated by British Sugar was attended by Britain's Minister for Sustainable Food and Farming and Animal Health Lord Rooker.…