Remove For Sale Remove Personal Remove Powered Remove Store
article thumbnail

Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

Trees are natural carbon sinks; they absorb carbon dioxide by photosynthesis, some of which is stored as carbon compounds in the wood—both during growth and even after harvesting, in the form of some wood products. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

Carbon 150
article thumbnail

Tesla Cybertruck gets vandalized by climate activists

Baua Electric

These so-called environmentalists are so extreme they are against all personal vehicles, electric or otherwise. Yes, some people are going to buy the Cybertruck to just drive to and from the grocery store and that’s dumb. But they are going after the Cybertruck for even more specific reasons.

Climate 52
article thumbnail

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers. By June 2015, Byland was the only person on the planet with two bionic eyes.

article thumbnail

The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

Cars That Think

But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. Zenith introduces Power Sentry, the first consumer use of a saturable-core transformer to regulate voltage. Its tube plant in Melrose Park, Ill.,

Industry 102
article thumbnail

Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

Cars That Think

The challenge—in which 3,800 teams from 100 countries participated—was to “design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles [32 kilometers] while carrying a single person.” And physics says that you need more power per unit weight to lift an aircraft like that.”

Kansas 93
article thumbnail

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked. This process accumulates a certain amount of latent (stored) energy. Named flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs), these automobiles run on gasoline, ethanol, or any blend of the two. Pursuant to 40 CFR § 80.27(a)(2):

article thumbnail

Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine Twitter Tennessee may be getting a jump-start on preparations for the electric car, but how quickly Americans take to it and how enthusiastically power companies support it remain key questions as the government and automakers push for more alternative-fuel vehicles. The hybrid is probably the best option.