Your electric vehicle could become a mini power plant
June 21, 2021
And that could make the electrical grid work better for everyone.
June 21, 2021
And that could make the electrical grid work better for everyone.
June 2, 2021
The mass adoption of electric vehicles — and, well, electric everything — will rely heavily on cheap, dependable batteries. While the cost of lithium-ion batteries has dropped dramatically, the technology still leaves something to be desired. Creating new types of batteries that are lighter, lower-cost and more durable will allow big jumps in the performance of electric vehicles and
...May 26, 2021
A poo-powered SUV has been launched by Urban Utilities, in an expansion of its fleet of cars fuelled by electricity generated by human waste. Aptly named ‘Number 2’, the new SUV — a Hyundai Kona Electric — is the second vehicle to join the line-up of Urban Utilities’ poo-powered cars. Urban Utilities spokesperson Anna Hartley said the car was the new ‘skid’ on
...May 17, 2021
How a fix for air pollution leads to tons of contaminated water.
May 5, 2021
Last year, I published a feature about why it was time for Silicon Valley to embrace the electric commuter bus. At the beginning of 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area uniquely had over 1,000 private buses — the vast majority using diesel fuel — moving employees to the corporate campuses of companies including Google and Facebook. (In comparison, the Bay Area has about 3,000 public transit
...May 1, 2021
Cascadia needs cleaner fuels to start decarbonizing heavy vehicles and industry. That means pushing biofuels to the max, and more.
April 28, 2021
Free passes, adaptive bikes, and community outreach are expanding bike-share's reach.
April 22, 2021
The study found that if large-scale rooftop solar systems were installed at Australia’s government-owned airports, they could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes. Previous studies have deemed airports as great solar generators, but the RMIT research goes further by precisely modelling the use of large-scale systems. The researchers compared electricity generated by
...April 16, 2021
New research suggests we might be ignoring the easiest way to problem-solve.
March 15, 2021
This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. San Francisco Bay Area biotech giant Genentech is a world leader in making medicines for diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis; it’s even trialing one of its medicines for helping treat COVID-19. It’s safe to say that the company, a division of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche,
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