Nissan 1947 Tama EV, the first Electric Vehicle in Post-War Japan
It has been rightly said that necessity is the mother of invention, at least it is true when we consider the first electric vehicle by Nissan. A new video posted by the automaker explains the situations that led to the manufacturing of their first electric vehicle. Nissan’s Tama EV, the first electric model, was built in 1947. During that time Japan ...
Hybrid Car Sales Up 32% in the First Two Months of 2013
Hybrid sales increased up to 32 percent in the first two months of 2013, compared with the figures during the same period of 2012, according to Autodata Corp. The market share for all hybrids has grown to four percent. According to an analyst at Gartner Inc. this could double by the end of 2020. What makes people so inclined towards hybrid ...
New Law Permits Horse Slaughtering in Oklahoma
The state of Oklahoma has lifted the 50-year-ban on horse slaughtering. Oklahoma’s governor has signed a new law that permits horse slaughtering and exporting horse meat. The supporters of the new law argue that it will be a humane alternative to abandoned and starving horses in rural parts of the state. The government also pointed out the fact that horses are ...
GM to Produce New Electric Car in Korea
GM has recently announced its plans to produce its next electric car in South Korea. At the Seoul Auto Show, Sergio Rocha, CEO of GM Korea told journalists that the company is planning on producing a new electric car and it will be larger than the existing model, Spark. According to Sergio Rocha, the new electric vehicle will have an entirely ...
Solar Impulse to Fly Across America
Solar Impulse, the solar powered plane, is getting ready to fly across America. Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and Andrè Borschberg, worked with Bayer Material Science to make the Solar Impulse project real. They are the co-founders and pilots of the plane. The Solar Impulse has completed flights from Switzerland to Spain and to Morocco. But now its creators are planning to ...
James Cameron Donates Deep Sea Sub to WHOI
A year after his record setting deep sea dive at the Western Pacific, James Cameron is now donating his single-person, deep-sea submersible, the Deepsea Challenger to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The 58-year-old filmmaker and explorer made his journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench on March 25, 2012. WHOI had spent seven years in designing and building the Deepsea Challenger. ...
Primove Wireless Charging for E-cars and Buses Arrives
Seems like the concept of wireless charging for electric vehicle is turning real. The first wireless electronic bus charging will begin in Mannheim, Germany in a few months. The upcoming trial in Mannheim will run on existing city bus routes and these vehicles will recharge via invisible inductive technology called Primove. This innovative Primove technology provides a contact-less power source for ...
Instant Re-play the Green Way
We often equate sports with fitness, but when it comes to sports we rarely equate them with the fitness of our planet. Just like children's toys, plastic water bottles, and other products, the consumer and entertainment sports (and fitness) industry impacts our landfills and our environment. From tangibles like bats, balls, clubs, and pucks to the greenhouse emissions pumped out ...
Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive Marks Debut at New York Show
Mercedes-Benz has an all-new B-Class Electric Drive making its debut at the New York International Auto Show. This is something of a surprise as the vehicle wasn’t expected to arrive in the US as early as the dawn of 2014. Daimler announced that their new wheels would be having a range around 115 miles, and that it will be wholly digitally ...
Shoot with No Batteries or Electric Cords; Sun and Cloud Let You Do it the Ecofriendly Way
Cameras have become important gadgets in everyone’s life and many have taken to photography as a serious passion. At a time where pixel count matters, the camera called Sun and Cloud with an intuitive design have come forward with the most nature friendly power source. Yes, solar charging indeed. It also equips a hand crank so that the shooting goes uninterrupted ...
