Europe
Green eMotion launched to boost electromobility
Tuesday, 05 April 2011 Siim Kallas, the European Commissioner for Transport, officially kicked-off the Green eMotion Project in Brussels this month. In front of representatives of the European Commission and the consortium ...
Spain
FCC and Siemens team up on electric vehicle project
Tuesday, 05 April 2011 Siemens and FCC have reached an agreement to develop and implement electric vehicles in Spain. Both companies seek to become leaders in electric mobility, and joining forces enables them to grow in th...
United States
Researchers announce advances in rechargeable hydrogen fuel storage tanks
Monday, 21 March 2011 Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US state of New Mexico have revealed a new single-stage method for recharging the hydrogen storage compound ammonia borane that they believe ma...
It’s not just about cars in the EV market
Thursday, 10 March 2011 In this article, Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of global analysts, IDTechEx, talks about how the future of electric vehicles is not just about cars, and encourages those in the market to attend IDTechEx&r...
Mercedes F-CELL World Drive heads to Portugal
Friday, 04 March 2011 Toby Price As announced yesterday, Renewable Energy Magazine is now following three Mercedes B-Class F-Cell cars as they head around the world on a sustainability fact finding mission. Today’s episode show...
Renewable Energy Magazine presents Eco-Trek videos
Thursday, 03 March 2011 Toby Price We are pleased to announce that for the next four months our home page will be providing global broadcast coverage of the Mercedes-Benz F-CELL World Drive 2011. The weekly Eco-Trek videos produced by ...
Norwegian buses to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 Ballard Power Systems has entered into a contract for the supply of fuel cell power modules to power five zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell buses operated by the HyNor Oslo Buss group, to service the g...
Electric vehicles end epic 80-day world race
Friday, 25 February 2011 Toby Price Yesterday marked the end of the inaugural Zero Emissions Race in Geneva (Switzerland). The 80-day race between three electric vehicles ended after some 28,000 km of driving across 16 countries and sto...
Automakers work to ramp up hydrogen mobility
Thursday, 24 February 2011GM and Opel are to expand their global and European hydrogen fuel cell market testing in Hawaii and Germany in an effort to drive hydrogen technology towards commercialisation.
Year of the electric car also anniversary for out-of-this-world predecessor
Thursday, 17 February 2011 Dan McCue With high-profile announcements about mass-produced electric vehicles seeming to come from the world’s major automakers every day, and an increasing number of communities making significant inve...