From Slashdot we see news about attempting the feat Jayco SunSwift III, a solar-powered vehicle. The record is trying to beat the 4,000 miles across the Australian Outback desert less than 8.5 days.

The route will begin in Sydney and finish in Perth. The team’s new car is very optimistic and expects to complete the trip in about 6 days. This optimism stems from the innovation of the machine, with an incredible optimized aerodynamic design in 80 computer labs for 3 months. The structure of the car is made of carbon fiber, and the suspension, brakes and other components using a series of batteries and power systems monitored by telemetry systems.

This is the result of years of work of several students at the University of South Wales in Sydney. Good luck!

From Blog of Cars and the International Auto Show in Detroit, we learned that General Motors will launch between 2010 and 2012 the first electric car to be completely independent of gas. The Chevrolet Volt will have a range of 64 miles a day with their batteries. Manufacturers claim 50% of Americans does not travel over the route a day, which would be independent of gas. A very good news for the environment.

We have talked a lot about solar cars. Although many advantages of autonomy, one of the problems they have is the design that does not follow any rules of interior roominess and occupation. An alternative to this could be rechargeable electric vehicles with solar panels that did not need much area. This will be more respectful of the vehicle design and to be marketable.

We offer stunning designs for solar panels on sports cars like the Audi TT.

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Perhaps it is a curious story, and that is if it has already become a habit to note the battery level of mobile now add another, the car battery. Indeed Volvo initiative is causing surprise and joy of all who have always longed for driving with peace of mind not be polluting the environment, then reconciling the terrible need to drive a car to move and not to give particles pollutants to the piece.

This is a model that implements Volvo considerably, and it has been somewhat famous by Chevy, Ford and Toyota, but never anything as serious as Volvo, which has even implemented a manufacturing plant called “CO2 “Free”. Determining Volvo manufacturers to create a special model that protects the environment not only reflects a “concern” but also a maximization of a strain which has not all been exploited as a commercial way, hybrids.

The Volvo Recharge has become a visually attractive car but it also promises nothing but decrease by 66% the emission of particulate pollutant type on a conventional hybrid car, which it will be too. As many readers already have to be wondering what will be the cost of such cleanup? No doubt that there is a cost, but more than acceptable, since the vehicle could be used at 100 miles per hour, with acceleration from 0-60 mph in 9 seconds or so, so that the completion cost / benefit is positive, also its consumption would be 124 miles per gallon to 150 kilometers (93 miles), “Surprised? Continue Reading

Here at Google we saw Irremovable turns to renewable energies, but now not only take for themselves, but they plan to invest $ 10 million in green initiatives, as announced in a press release.

Specifically they are looking to invest 500 thousand to 2 million in many initiatives that focus on electric hybrid vehicles.

The matter is in a hurry, as the dates you have set as a ceiling for stakeholders to submit their reports is 22 October this year. Sounds perfect to bet on the alternative renewable fuel, and better yet do so quickly. Do not wait to send them within two to five years output. Today, right now we need to abandon fossil fuels.

And indeed, that an economic giant like Google cares about these issues is an inducement. That is not the only, of course, another major Internet company, Yahoo, have shown interest in renewable energy.

It is always difficult to get along with everybody, and is usually not easy to make a good production that let users happy because they have lower costs, or environmental contaminant at a car terribly badly designed, though the less contributions from the two by pollutant particles that make the car a more or less polluting vehicle, however the C-Cactus has done the impossible and so, like a true gift from Olympus, achieving a remarkable low-cost design production with impressive fuel economy and also a very low environmental pollution, certainly something that should be reviewed.

Frankfurt, Germany, where there will be among those who began to follow a concept that definitely draws attention to the users for their extraordinary contours and is very pleasing to the retina of the curious slipping per line which makes it an exponent innovation only because it must be remembered that this is not an Audi or Mercedes, but a modest Citroen screaming coming from the great ecological perfect solution for users.

Technically, the model emits 78 grams of CO2 per kilometer, thanks to the technology involved, which is a hybrid HDi diesel type, all of which would disintegrate noting that a heat engine type Diesel HDi 70 hp an electric power and delivers 30 more horsepower, so the car can eventually develops a more than suitable for those who enjoy a benefit “necessary” to move quietly and to demand a little from time to time. Continue Reading