How to Increase Your Hybrid Car’s Lifespan
2 December 2010 | Green Cars | 1 Comment
Maintaining your hybrid car in the best possible condition, it’s not a difficult thing to do and it leads to a longer lifespan for it. To accomplish this thing you have to be careful with some things while driving: your speed and the car load.
In other words you should treat your car as you treat a person. Anything that slows your car’s performances should be avoided. You should know that overloading your car shortens it’s lifespan and I am sure you don’t want that thing to happen.
Recharge Your EV’s Batteries Using Magnetic Fields
1 December 2010 | Green Cars | No Comments
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Lab managed to bring recharging EV’s batteries process at a whole new level by creating co called Inductive Power Transfer Stations. The new invention could help EV owners to recharge their EV at night in their own garages.
Every time you want to recharge your EV’s batteries you have to plug them into a charger. If this thing happens in the middle of a work day, you’ll probably waste your precious time. In order to avoid such situations, these Inductive Power Transfer Station could recharge your EV’s batteries at night, when it is supposed you don’t drive.
Kia Borrego FCEV – An Electric Vehicle Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells
29 December 2009 | Green Cars | 1 Comment
We have already discussed often times on MyGreenTreasure about electric vehicles or vechicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells but we’ve never written about a car that is an electric vehicle and at the same time powered by hydrogen. Presonaly i didn’t knew about such a thing, but recently I read on a specialized website about a new Kia model, which is actually a FCEV ( Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle).
France to spend $2.2 Billion In A Charging Network For EV’s
7 October 2009 | Green News | No Comments
The ever-rising demand for finding an alternative to the oil-based industry has brought the potential of the electricity into more light and many world governments seem to appeal to this solution. As one of the first reactions, the French government has recently announced the intentions to spend $2.2 billion (~€1.5 billion) on building a charging network for electric vehicles to cover the whole country, in efforts to rise the interest for more environmental and clean means of transportation.
Nissan LEAF – An Affordable New Electric Car
3 August 2009 | Green Cars | 4 Comments
We are living some incredible times. Big changes are about to take place in the way we think of electric vehicles. With worlds oil reserves much lower than evaluated, an alternative solution is needed more than ever and it’s becoming clearer that the electric car is one of the answers.