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January 18, 2006
Techno-Fix On The March
If you're looking for a few hopeful signs in this sadly diminished world, you could do worse than to visit Green Car Congress. Interestingly, their name doesn't say it all. They don't limit themselves to cars. Far from it. It was at Green Car Congress that I first heard of the Green Goat hybrid switching locomotive. Hybrids. They're not just for itty-bitty cars anymore. Along with vehicles, they devote considerable time to motive power, be it batteries, fuel cells, synthetic hydrocarbons, or solar panels. It's what you might call a potpourri. Allow me to demonstrate their diversity with a few intro graphs from the last couple of days... Firefly Energy (earlier post) has received a US patent for a new carbon-foam lead-acid battery technology that it believes has the potential to revolutionize the existing global lead-acid battery market as well as serve applications such as hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. I don't know how they do it. Diving a little further back, last November they mentioned the Eliica, the eight wheeled electric car from Japan, that does zero to sixty in four seconds. That's very pleasant to think about. posted by Justin on 01.18.06 at 10:20 AM |
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