Archives for July 2010
2000 Mercedes Vito E-Cell Vans Scheduled for Production by the end of 2011
31 July 2010 | Green Cars | No Comments
Mercedes-Benz Vito E-Cell was finally launched on the European market. Mercedes-Benz started series production of its new electric Vito, announcing that 2,000 E-Cell vans will be produced by the end of 2011. The new E-Cell Vito is an urban delivery vehicle powered by 70KW AC motor and as producers claim, this engine can propel the vehicle with 50 miles per hour.
See-Through Glass SolarWindow Capable Of Generating Electricity
30 July 2010 | Solar Power | 1 Comment
Most of the solar cells we know, are opaque cells, and in most cases they are installed on building’s rooftops. We talked about solar blinds or other similar systems covering our windows to generate electricity but we never talked about a see-thru glass window capable of generating electricity. New Energy Technologies have announced that they will unveil in the upcoming weeks, the world’s first-ever window capable of generating electricity.
GM Announced its Chevy Volt Electric Car Will Cost $41.000
28 July 2010 | Green Cars | No Comments
In a tight race to become the most important electric vehicle manufacturer, none of the competitors will not drop the price of their cars because this would mean a sign of weakness in front of opponents. Although their biggest desire is to have high sales, GM announced that when it goes on sale, the new Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost $41,000. This price is actually $8,000 higher than Nissan Leaf’s price, its closest rival.
Alta Wind Energy Center will Power 600,000 Homes in Southern California
27 July 2010 | Wind Power | 2 Comments
After temperature, one of the most significant weather phenomenon in the Mojave dessert, is wind. Windy days are common across this region so, considering this advantage Terra-Gen Power has planned to build there, the largest wind power project in the country(Alta Wind Energy Center). A huge area of thousands of acres will be mobilized to generate energy for 600,000 homes in Southern California. At a distance of about 75 miles north of Los Angeles, in the Tehachapi Pass, they will install hundreds of towering turbines which will generate, as they say, three times as much energy as the country’s largest existing wind farms.
Tight Competition for Building the World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Turbines
26 July 2010 | Wind Power | No Comments
Is human nature to want more than you have at a given time. We will never have enough money, reputation or success! We always want more! Same thing happened with British, American and Norwegian engineers. They are striving to build a giant wind turbine (Some people could call it “the holy grail of wind turbines”), twice the power and size of anything seen before. The engineers are in a race to design the world’s biggest offshore wind turbines which will generate over 10MW green power.