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Consolidated Edison is one of the distribution utilities that will be acutely affected if New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision, or REV, proposal becomes a reality in the coming years. The utility is not necessarily fighting the changes happening at the grid edge. It already has a “utility of the future” group, explained Andrew Reid, a senior engineer at Consolidated

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Google Glass has taken the tech sector by storm–and now it’s giving electric-car drivers a reason to pay attention as well. Charging-station operator SemaConnect has developed an app (via BWWGeeksWorld) for the wearable computer that helps drivers find places to charge. The app allows drivers to locate the nearest charging station within a 20-mile radius, find it through turn-by-turn directions,

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Should automakers be boasting of their environmental credentials? Or should they talk in a language people understand–money–and highlight the economic benefits? Maybe it’s all about silence and refinement? Rarely mentioned is just how fun electric cars can be to drive. So we’ve taken a primal, quantitative measure of driving fun–the 0-60 mph acceleration sprint–to rank each battery-electric vehicle on sale

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Elon Musk has probably been given a lot of advice during his time at Tesla–some good, and some bad. Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach is the latest to offer his own take on the business to Musk though–and it isn’t what you might be expecting. According to Bloomberg, Gundlach has suggested the Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO get out of the car-making

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It takes all sorts of people to make the world go around, and the same can be said about electric vehicles. Some customers never want to touch a drop of gasoline again, and opt for a pure battery electric vehicle. Others like the convenience that a range-extended or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle gives them. BMW offers you both with the

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon graphene foam architecture that improves the performance of supercapacitors, a development that could mean faster acceleration in electric vehicles and longer battery life in portable electronics. The researchers found that supercapacitors, an energy storage device like batteries and fuel cells, based on transition

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Interference-free charging is a major prerequisite for the economically efficient use of electric vehicles. After about 120,000 km driven electrically, the RheinMobil project has proved that a combination of quick and conventional charging is ideal for the battery performance: The controlled mix ensures a high utilization rate of the vehicles and protects the battery. RheinMobil is a joint project of

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Researchers around the world have been working to harness the unusual properties of graphene, a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms. But graphene lacks one important characteristic that would make it even more useful: a property called a bandgap, which is essential for making devices such as computer chips and solar cells. Now, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and

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Transphorm Inc. today announced that it has completed a distribution agreement with HY-LINE Power Components GmbH to stock and distribute its family of 600-Volt GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) in Central Europe. HY-Line’s technical expertise will support the growing demand for JEDEC-qualified 600 Volt GaN products that have now grown to the level requiring an expanding sales channel to

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Today, at a port near Los Angeles, Hyundai’s Tucson Fuel Cell CUVs began rolling onto U.S. soil, marking the first delivery of a mass-produced fuel cell vehicle for the U.S. market. The first retail sale of the Tucson Fuel Cell is expected within the next several weeks in Southern California. Under the Hyundai leasing program, approved lessees can drive Hyundai’s

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