Moving the global economy towards environmentally-friendly, clean technologies will increasingly hinge on rapid improvements in the recycling rates of so called “high-tech” specialty metals like lithium, neodymium and gallium.
Such metals, needed to make key components for wind turbines and photovoltaics to the battery packs of hybrid cars, fuel cells and energy efficient lighting systems, exist [...]
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Manufacturing Industry group conducted an analysis summarizing the government economic stimulus efforts and incentives around the world for alternative vehicle development. The data and information was collected and compiled using various external media sources based on information available from around November 2008 to end of February 2010. Twenty five key [...]
BMW Forschung und Technik (Research and Technology) last week displayed a new hybrid electric vehicle that uses a UTC Power fuel cell system. The vehicle was unveiled at the 25th anniversary BMW ZT celebration in Munich, Germany.
UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company, has been working with BMW since 1999 to develop highly efficient, emission-free [...]
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announced an unprecedented collaboration by its Canadian unit Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada Inc. and Hydro-Québec that will put up to 50 zero-emission all-electric i-MiEV passenger cars on the streets of the City of Boucherville, an independent municipality and a suburb of Montreal, in the largest Canadian project ever fielded to integrate, [...]
General Motors Co. is testing a production-intent hydrogen fuel cell system that can be packaged in the space of a traditional four-cylinder engine and be ready for commercial production in 2015.
The system is half the size, 220 pounds lighter and uses about a third of the platinum of the system in the Chevrolet Equinox Fuel [...]
The CT 200h features a 1.8-liter gas engine with Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i), a high performance battery, power control unit, transmission with an electric motor generator, a power split device to re-allocate power from the engine and electric motor generator according to operational requirements.Four drive modes enhance the capabilities of the CT 200h’s [...]
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