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Volvo shows its V60 diesel plug-in hybrid car

Volvo shows its V60 diesel plug-in hybrid car

Volvo shows this summer its new diesel plug-in hybrid car V60 at Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester. The Swedish automaker decided to go on sale in the UK at the end of the year at a price of £48,700 and possible with an expected discount of £5,000 from the government’s plug-in hybrid car grant [...]

Hybrid future aircraft designed by Shabtai Hirshberg

Shabtai Hirshberg has graduated the Transportation Design MFA program at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, with a thesis called “Redesigning Commercial Aircraft” and based on extensive research on the commercial aviation market. Its project is an aircraft able to fly due a hybrid engine and to land on water. The industrial designer [...]

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Sharing power between electric-powered vehicles and homes

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a vehicle to home1(V2H) system for the mutual sharing of power between electric-powered vehicles, such as plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs), and homes.

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eHighway concept of Siemens toward future zero emission

Significant contributors to road pollution are also freight vehicles and an active development of electric vehicles towards a zero emission is the future. Siemens is currently testing a solution to adapt trucks at a railway or tram technology. Heavy goods vehicles will be fitted with a newly developed pantograph that can transfer electric power to [...]

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Fuel-cell buses with hybrid technology go into regular service in Switzerland

PostAuto Schweiz AG has become the first company in Switzerland to deploy fuel-cell technology for public road transport.

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Emissions-free fuel-cell car from Mercedes-Benz conquers Hollywood

An increasing number of Hollywood stars are opting for eco-friendly mobility from Mercedes-Benz.

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GT4 a hybrid aircraft to be improved as electric one

Volta Volare, an aeronautics company in Portland, Oregon has announced a development of an electric or at least hybrid aircraft for passengers.

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BMW i8 Concept – highest performance sports car also fuel efficient

BMW has tested a series of concept vehicles and took the decision to produce the i8 Concept series.

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SCIhyMod hybrid cars and new concept of easy removable gasoline engines

Electric cars with range extending gasoline engines have one major flaw in their design,

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Team EcoCar first hydrogen powered car built at the University of Alberta

A team of students from University of Alberta built a hydrogen powered car called Team EcoCar.

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