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Greenheart is a growing social enterprise with big ideas. Design is nearly complete on Greenheart’s first innovation: a new class of sustainable, low-cost, zero-emission sail/solar-powered ship designed to fill current weaknesses and gaps in the global shipping industry. The first new ship of its kind, the S/V Greenheart (“S/V” meaning “Sailing Vessel”), is being developed specifically for those communities marginalized

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General Motors is set to officially unveil the all-new 2016 Chevy Volt at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show in January, but GM has decided to give the world a few teasers now. In addition to a few photos of the exterior, GM has also revealed that the Volt will be powered by a new, larger four-cylinder engine and an all-new

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I have to admit a growing frustration: I’m tired of hearing about range anxiety with electric vehicles (EVs). I’m increasingly convinced that we’re verging on an unhealthy fixation. Read too much about it and soon you’ll start to think it’s the latest national epidemic (maybe the APA will even add it to the DSM VI). Article after article covers the

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When it comes to electric vehicles and overall happiness, Norway seems to have things figured out. With 15% of the new car market share, electric cars have become the best-selling vehicles in the small Scandinavian country, and this video from Nissan explains how that’s possible. Through smart and effective use of its natural resources, tax incentives, and government policy, Norway

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Last week Brazil entered the solar sector with a bang, after releasing contracts totalling 1048 MW spread over 31 solar parks. This would call for an investment of over $1.66 billion. Most importantly, the average price of these solar projects was very low. In this piece, we take a look at the growth of solar power in Brazil and what

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Light-emitting diode bulbs have long been far more efficient than incandescent or even compact florescent bulbs, but that gap has widened even more this year. The average efficiency of LEDs stood at around 80 lumens per watt in mid-2013, but is now closer to 100 lumens per watt, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is far higher than

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Energy storage is expensive but offers a host of opportunities, both in revenue generation and cost reduction. Paired with solar, energy storage is even more attractive, offering savings on the energy portion of the bill and access to ITC benefits when eligible — through 2016, anyway. The chart below, presented by GTM Research senior grid analyst Ravi Manghani at Solar

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GKN Land Systems is ramping up production of a new hybrid technology for buses that will enable operators to save fuel, reduce fares and make some routes more viable. Demand for the company’s Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid is growing following successful trials in London and the start of UK production. GKN Land Systems CEO Phil Swash said: “Gyrodrive is the

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The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that it will shortly embark on the trial run of electric buses (powered by batteries) where the battery can be recharged up to 80 per cent in less than 30 minutes. The bus can cover up to 200km with a full battery at a speed of 100km per hour. The RTA will

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It looks like graphene from above, but flip it on its side and this interesting material reveals a nanoscale sandwich of atoms in three distinct layers. That material would be molybdenum disulfide, and a research team from Rice University has just announced a new energy storage breakthrough based around the sponge-like characteristics of the three-layered edge. We’re going to drop

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