Technologies that combine electricity with traditional engines are becoming commonplace. Within a few years, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an engine that doesn’t shut off when you’re idling at a stop light, recapture energy from braking and get an battery-assisted boost for passing.
Toyota threw in its lot with the alternative vehicle crowd when it predicted that gasoline and diesel engines will be virtually extinct by 2050. Kiyotaka Ise, senior managing officer of the world’s best-selling automaker, said that gas-electric hybrids, plug-in hybrids, fuel-cell vehicles and electric cars will account for most of its auto sales by mid-century.
Rising global temperatures could soon push the sun-baked cities of the Persian Gulf across a threshold unknown since the start of civilization: the first to experience temperatures that are literally too hot for human survival.
U.S. imports of foreign oil are rising again after a long decline, as the oil bust forces domestic producers to scale back.
How did Patricia get to be so strong? The answer, quite simply, involves human-caused climate change.
Collaborating with the Bush-Cheney White House, Exxon turned ordinary scientific uncertainties into weapons of mass confusion.
Output from the Marcellus basin in Pennsylvania and West Virginia is faltering as pipeline capacity fails to keep up with the surge in production. While space on Appalachian pipelines has more than doubled this year, it hasn’t been enough to keep the flow moving freely.
A team of MIT scientists has completed a study of using methanol as a gasoline substitute, and they’ve concluded that “methanol is a viable transportation fuel.”
Out of the five BEVs included in the report, only the Nissan Leaf was said to have average reliability.
Traffic pollution near the home – and specifically, benzene in the air – increases the risk of one type of childhood leukemia, according to a nationwide study in France.
