We've gotten excited about Fisker's Karma electric car before--it's dashingly attractive for an eco-friendly vehicle. But Fisker will only make a big dent in carbon emissions if it makes a family car. Which it will now do in ...READ»
The Obama administration has been good to the renewable energy industry, with the Department of Energy announcing in July that it will give up to $30 billion in loan guarantees to renewable energy projects. Now the DOE is going out ...READ»
On the heels of crippling gasoline shortages, saber rattling from OPEC, and the abolishment of the Atomic Energy Commission, the modern DOE was established to oversee and regulate the emerging nuclear power industry and to manage ...READ»
Finally, some good news for beleaguered electric vehicle startup Tesla Motors. Only a day after CEO Elon Musk wrote a long blog post defending himself and his company against rumors and accusations, Tesla has been awarded approval ...READ»
Does clean coal exist? We might soon have the chance to find out now that the U.S. Department of Energy's FutureGen clean coal plant project has been revived. FutureGen's future appeared grim last year when the Bush ...READ»
Companies working on alternative fuel charging stations should take notice of the U.S. Department of Energy's new TransAtlas tool, an interactive Google Map mashup map of alt-fuel hotspots.
TransAtlas shows existing and ...READ»
Bucher CityCat H2, the world's first municipal utility vehicle powered by fuel cells, made its debut last week in Basel, Switzerland. The street-cleaning CityCat will undergo an 18-month trial to see how well it can reduce air ...READ»
Electric vehicles are about to explode in popularity, with car companies as diverse as Ford, Tesla, Fisker, and Toyota working on bringing new models to market in the next few years. But with the growth of these vehicles comes a ...READ»
Last year, the US Department of Energy landed in the news when it set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of all light that hits it into solar energy using concentrated ...READ»
