A Nissan Leaf electric vehicle. EcoFriend recently posted an article called “7 Good reasons to drive an electric car.”
Electric car manufacturers like Nissan with their Leaf, General Motors with their Chevy Volt (recycled parts and all), Mercedes with their F Cell hydrogen car has finally delivered their respective EVs to dealership centers across the [...]

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Computer energy efficiency has improved significantly since the very first general purpose computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) built in 1946.
In 1965, Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel described a long-term trend in the history of computing observing that computer processing power doubles every two years. This observation became what is known as [...]

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Here’s a piece of good news for drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids in Boston and some parts of Massachusetts. BMW has recently announced their partnership with Coulomb Technologies to install 150 ChargePoint stations in the city and across the state.

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Here’s something that might prove useful to people who have lost power during a natural disaster like an earthquake or a hurricane. In Japan, a few weeks ago, Nissan unveiled a system to power an entire house during a power interruption or outage, using the LEAF electric vehicle.

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In a move that’s widely seen as a further proof of the armed services’ commitment to develop renewable sources, the United States Army has recently announced the creation of Energy Initiatives Office Task Force. The new command will be responsible for the building of renewable energy power plants in U.S. military bases across the world, [...]

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Electric vehicles are coming of age, so to speak. Not only are more people these days increasingly and keenly aware of the environmental price of continuing our use of fossil fuels indefinitely into the future, they’re also adapting new technologies to mitigate the nearsightedness of previous years. Hybrids and electric vehicles are becoming commonplace but [...]

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As people become more conscious of the need to efficiently manage and save on their energy consumption and as traditional energy sources become more limited, the use of energy saving devices will become more commonplace in households and businesses across America.

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President Obama checking out a Chevrolet Volt last summer.
The US government is the world’s single largest buyer of vehicles, purchasing 60,000 new units every year. It is also the biggest consumer of oil in the world.

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We’ve been focusing on alternatives and solutions to fossil fuel-based economy rather than on the acrimonious discussion about the science of global warming and climate change. Personally, I think clean renewable energy is the wave of the future, whether or not you believe in the science, and nations who recognize that today and prepare for [...]

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Texans are world famous for their fondness to do things BIG. In 2009, the largest wind farm in the world (627 wind turbine) at the time opened in Roscoe, Texas. This year, the Lone Star State will be adding another behemoth to its list of oversized trophies.

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