By Jason Deign The world’s oldest battery company isn’t clinging to the past. Leclanché, of Switzerland, is betting on its two newest lines of business for future growth, said Jacques Boppe, the company’s vice president…
Duke Energy, America’s biggest utility, is working on a way to use vehicle batteries for grid energy storage that could sidestep the concept’s biggest drawback. Electric vehicle batteries have long been mooted as a potential…
In a week that sees Chinese authorities making noises on tackling the country’s dire air pollution problem comes the news that Hong Kong is taking a tentative step in the right direction. And it comes…
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has created an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station.
The aptly-named Starbus went through its paces at the Liquid Propulsion System Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bangalore earlier this week, reports The Times Of India.
BYD’s iron-phosphate battery-powered vehicles are making more inroads into the European market with the announcement that the China-based megacorp will be supplying 35 electric buses to Schiphol airport in The Netherlands. These airside transfer vehicles will together…
Encouraging news for low-carbon public transportation comes from Sweden, where Volvo has announced plans for a new line of electric buses. The company is not just playing up their virtue for emission-less transport, but noiseless driving as…
The UK government will be funding low-carbon buses as part of its Green Bus Fund, reports Green Car Congress. In total, the four rounds of the GBP£87 million fund should provide more than 1,200 new low-carbon buses…