EVs surge as Nissan taps China’s market, U.S. gov. lobbied for green car subsidies
In addition to Tesla Motors‘ potential IPO, there’s two more big pieces of news coming out of the electric vehicle world. Nissan is opening talks about electric cars in China, and the Electrification Coalition has started lobbying for tax credits and loan guarantees to get battery-powered cars on the roads soon.
Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn seems to have switched course. His line used to be that he wouldn’t be selling EVs in China until the country… Continue Reading
Super-efficient lighting technologies provide energy saving ideas, outdoors and in
In Australia, the husband and wife team behind Lumiflux has found a way to make a 50 year old technology seem new and, well, shiny. Electroluminescence, or EL, has been the technology behind your digital watch night-light and a series of small lamps from Sylvania for a long time. Until quite recently, though, EL was not bright enough for more widespread area lighting applications.
Ernest and Gabriella Kabay have developed EL panels that are flexible, easily… Continue Reading