Posts Tagged ‘solar’
2009 Hybridfest Green Drive Expo: Green Plan-It
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under education, event
During Hybridfest Green Drive Expo in Madison, Wisc., I had the opportunity to speak with Jeff Peters of Green Plan-It.
Helping guide their neighbors to a greener future, Green Plan-It’s mission is to provide green retail and renewable energy efficiency products.
Their full line up of products include:
Eco Make-up
Pro Labs Test Kits
Organic Gardening Supplies
Indoor Growing Systems
Rain Barrels
Four [...]
Tags: batteries, eco, Green, Hybridfest, photovoltaic, solar, thermal
2,757 miles per gallon?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Sound impossible? Not if you’re an Eco Marathoner.
Congratulations go out to the student-led Alerion Supermileage team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada for achieving the fuel milestone and winning the Grand Prize during the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition pitting student-built, fuel-efficient prototype vehicle achieves against each other to travel the farthest distance using [...]
Tags: Alerion, biomass, car, concept, cool, diesel, eco, fuel, fuel_cell, hydrogen, Laval, LPG, marathon, Matt_Kelly, mpg, prototype, Purdue, Shell, solar, UCLA
Nation’s first solar-powered electric vehicle charging station unveiled in….Chicago?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Coulomb Technologies, the Silicon Valley-based developer of the Smartlet, an individually controlled charging station located in public and private parking areas, just announced the unveiling of the nation’s first solar-powered electric vehicle charging station in the city of Chicago.
The announcement is a joint statement with Carbon Day Automotive, the US midwest distributor of the Coulomb [...]
Tags: 511 Contra Costa, CarronDay, ChargePoint, Clean Cities, Clean Fuel Connection, Coulomb, EV, SCE, smartgrid, Smartlet, solar
Andy Frank at Challenge X
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Dr. Andy Frank is faculty advisor to the Challenge X team, from UC Davis. While at the GM Proving Grounds for some of the event, I had the opportunity to speak with him about the event and the vehicle his students built for the competition. A solar-powered charged, battery-powered, plug-in electric vehicle, it didn’t do [...]
Tags: Andy Frank, battery power, Challenge X, EV, GM, plug-in, solar, UC Davis
AeroVironment: Charging Ahead!
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
AeroVironment is a Monrovia, Calif.-based pioneer in the conception and development of alternative energy vehicles, having helped to develop the solar-powered GM Sunraycer and the all-electric GM Impact, a prototype for General Motors’ EV-1 electric automobile, and others. If you watched the movie, Who Killed the Electric Car?, their at-home electric vehicle battery charging appliance [...]
Tags: AeroVironment, Altair Nanotechnologies, alternative energy, Charlie Botsford, EV-1, GM Impact, Phoenix, solar, sport utility truck, Sunraycer
UMSolar: Powered by the Sun
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
The University of Michigan’s Solar Car Team had one of the more inspiring booths at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last month. The entirely student-run organization is dedicated to designing, financing, building and racing solar powered cars. And they have a pretty impressive track record to show for their efforts! These young [...]
Tags: alternative fuel, Continuum, M-Pulse, Momentum, solar, Tom Carroll