Mahindra Reva E2O Electric Car Launch this Month
Mahindra Reva has announced the launch of its new generation electric vehicle, E2o in India and the vehicle is expected to launch by the middle of this month. The company hopes to sell 30,000 units of the E20 by the end of 2016. The E20 micro car is said to have a top speed of 60 miles per hour. Moreover, ...
Quetsol Solar Kit to Light Up Guatemala Hinterland
Guatemala has a considerable size of population below the poverty line. Twenty percent of this Latin American country citizens still have no access to electricity. These families go completely dark in their homes at night; their children are unable to study. Most of them use kerosene lights and candles to light their homes. But buying these products eats into their ...
Next Gen Mitsubishi Pajero May be a Hybrid
The new Mitsubishi Pajero could use hybrid technology, says new report published by Australia's Go Auto. The company officials have also admitted a new plug-in hybrid vehicle in the future. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation head of product and strategy development Ryugo Nakao confirmed their plans to bring a successor to its current model at the Geneva Motor Show. The new model ...
Kenyan Teen Invents LED System to Protect Livestock
Thirteen-year-old Richard Turere and his family live near the Nairobi National Park, Kenya and raise livestock. The boy has been helping his family protect their cattle herd from lion attacks since age nine. But he had always been frustrated because lions managed to steal their livestock. But last year after participating in a global talent search last year he found ...
AgustaWestland Rolls Out World’s First Electric-Tilt Rotor Aircraft
AgustaWestland’s electric-tilt rotor aircraft, the world’s first, can take off and land like a helicopter, but fly like an airplane – much like the more famous Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey. It’s called Project Zero, and it follows AgustaWestland’s belief that tilt rotor technology is the best layout for the future of fast vertical-lift aircraft. AgustaWestland has had experience with the tilt ...
Alligator blood Can Fight Infectious Diseases
Alligators’s blood can be used to treat several infectious diseases, researchers at McNeese State University in Louisiana have discovered. They explored the antibiotic properties of the American alligator’s blood and found the potential use of the antibiotic proteins in the reptile’s blood includes the treatment of a range of infectious diseases like HIV. The alligator’s immune system differs from humans and ...
Tiny Colibri One-Seater EV for Under 10,000 Euros
The Thuringian company Innovative Mobility Automobile GmbH (IMA) unveiled its efficient electric single-seater ‘Colibri’ vehicle, which is intended for congested urban areas, at the Geneva Motor Show this week. In spite of its small dimensions - 2.75m length, 18m width and 1.30m height, this vehicle provides generous interior space. The company claims a battery that should last for 2,000 charges which is ...
Automated Trucks May Hit the Road by 2020
When will we be seeing flying cars like the ones depicted in sci-fi movies? The way technology is advancing it may not be far off. After some years our roads will see self-driving vehicles or at least that’s what the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a semi-governmental organization in Japan, thinks. NEDO has been carrying out tests ...
Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron Hybrid Arrives
Audi launched its A3 Sportback E-Tron at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The German automaker has come up with several stunning features in this plug-in hybrid. Not fully electric in nature, the plug–in hybrid offers a speed of 0 to 100 km/h in 7.6 seconds, with a top speed of 222 km/h. It is a five-door model with highly efficient ...
Japan Suspends Whaling in Southern Ocean
The Japanese Fisheries Agency has announced the suspension of their whaling activities in Southern ocean as the US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd claimed two of its boats, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, were attacked by a Japanese ship in Australian Antarctic waters. Reports say that the attacks occurred after the Sea Shepherds ordered the Japanese fleets to leave ...
