Juiced: Google&39's technical program manager for electric transportation, Rolf Schreiber, gets ready to charge a Nissan Leaf. (Credit: Screen cap... read more »
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SunRun said that it has secured $200 million from a bank to finance the installation of residential solar panels, a sign of confidence in a business... read more »
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A commercial pilot project for carbon sequestration and large-scale algae biofuel manufacturing in Australia has been successfully completed, OriginO... read more »
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A landmark along the Tokyo-Osaka railway, Sanyo&39's Solar Ark is 344 yards wide with an annual output of 530,000 kWh. (Credit: Sanyo) Struggli... read more »
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Amid a full-blown humanitarian crisis from a massive earthquake and tsunami, Japan is racing against time to avert a nuclear catastrophe. Plant wor... read more »
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Converting traditional school buses to hydraulic hybrids, capable of running on recycled biofuel, could add up to a considerable savings for the na... read more »
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China cut its first batch of rare earth export quotas for next year by more than one-tenth, in the face of a threat by the United States to complai... read more »
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The Sylvania LED designed for general lighting, which gives off as much light as a 60-watt incandescent and uses 12 watts. (Credit: Osram Sylvani... read more »
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A Solar Junction wafer of high-efficiency solar cells. Each individual chip can produce about 20 watts. (Credit: Solar Junction) Solar Junction's... read more »
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Home Depot, which is making an aggressive push into LED lighting, has started selling a Philips LED bulb designed as a replacement for the 60-watt i... read more »
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Think plans to target urbanites and open retail stores in cities as part of its U.S. market strategy for the Think City EV. (Credit: Think) Automa... read more »
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Lighting controls company Redwood Systems has done a number of installations in data centers. (Credit: Redwood Systems) To improve the efficiency... read more »
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J.D. Power and Associates today forecast that 7 percent of new auto sales in 2020 will be hybrids or battery electric vehicles but a "mass migration... read more »
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The U.S. government yesterday gave four biofuel companies loan guarantees of nearly $650 million to help build plants that will make motor fuels fr... read more »
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Solar panel maker SoloPower has secured financing to build a manufacturing plant in Oregon, a step toward ramping up production of its thin-film sola... read more »
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First came VentureBeat&'s scoop on the Model S prototype&'s completion. Then came Tesla&'s trifecta of professionally-edited videos showing off the en... read more »
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First Solar has signed a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, to supply its thin-film solar panels to China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Developmen... read more »
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Rovigo, Italy, is a CLEAR (City and Local Environmental Accounting Reporting) town whose motto is &34'the city of change.&34' As of November, the ... read more »
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This year has seen the launch of a number of cool green gadgets and gizmos &8212' it&'s also been a big year for electric car launches. If you want to... read more »
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A rendering of the 30-car solar charging station being built at Nissan&39's Smyrna plants. (Credit: Nissan) Nissan began construction on a 30-car... read more »
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