«The concept car Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. plans to show at the Expo 2010 (more images in the extended) betrays tremendous pressure to set the highest standard. Combining all of the wildest dreams of electric vehicle buffs into one concept car, SAIC claims to achieve a net vehicle emissions balance of less than zero. The world’s first negative emissions vehicle.»

Source: treehugger.com

Automobile computer systems successfully hacked
«researchers have shown that it’s possible to take away driver control of a moving vehicle by remotely hacking into relatively insecure computer systems common in modern automobiles. The team managed to break into key vehicle systems to

Un-greenwash me
«the tar sands are an immensely destructive project. To date, tar sands oil extraction has devastated an area the size of the city of Toronto. If oil extraction from the tar sands continues unchecked, it has the

the world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device
«The world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device has been officially launched in Scotland. Known as Oyster, the device was installed this year and is, at present, the world’s only hydro-electric wave energy device which is producing power. Oyster produces

Who killed the electric car?
Ca, c’est la «2e», la toute nouvelle woiture électrique de chez Aptera Motors. La «2e», c’est une auto 2 places au design futuriste, petite comme une Honda Civic, équipée avec l’air conditionné, le GPS, les airbags et une caméra pour

The Human powered snow transportation device
«Human Powered Snow Vehicle. It’s thought for competitive training but also for panoramic tourism along cross country ski tracks. It’s really lightweight because of its structure, made of bent aluminium sheets. Designed to be built without moulding

The mobile wind turbine concept
«A network of designers coming together under the banner of Pope Designs has come up with a mobile wind turbine concept that could just change all that. Able to generate and store enough power to meet its

Planes or Volcano?
«What´s emitting the most CO2 per day? Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano is emitting between 150,000 and 300,000 tonnes of CO2 per day…According to the European Environment Agency (EAA), daily emissions from the aviation sector in the 27 nations

Galactic Plunder
«This game, written in JavaScript using the HTML5 Canvas and Audio objects, was developed as a proof of concept that a shooter-style game can be coded without the use of any Flash.» Source: dougx.net Share a2a_config.linkname="World\'s First "Carbon Negative" Car

Le seigneur du Nano(c)
Tu as un iPôde Nano, un gros disque dur, un tournevis, deux élastiques et une certaine idée du concept de l’electronique transportable ? Cet excellent article de chez uncyclopedia.org fera de toi un gEEk comblé.. Share a2a_config.linkname="World\'s First "Carbon Negative" Car

Potatoes May Power The Batteries Of The Future
«A vegetable? Yes, indeed. Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has just introduced what they’re calling “solid organic electric battery based upon treated potatoes.” In short, it’s a