Coulomb Technologies, one of the most successful companies rolling out rapid roadside charging stations for the new generation of plug-in vehicles debuting this year, announced today that it has adapted its technology for use in the home.
Interestingly, residential chargers are where many of Coulomb’s competitors have started out — just look at General Electric’s recent [...]

The images of oil spoiling America’s shores has folks thinking more seriously about alternative energy sources. One man has made it his life’s mission to wean America off big oil. As part of “The Next Big Thing” series meet Lonnie Johnson – a former NASA engineer with two potentially world-changing inventions.
Check out the video interview [...]

Naveen Munjal, President of the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) and Managing Director of Hero Electric, is a forward thinking and dynamic entrepreneur, and one of the best known spokespersons in India and abroad in the area of electric vehicles.
1. There is a lot of talk going on about EVs. Do you think [...]

Bill Russo, founder and President of International business development advisory firm Synergistics and Senior Advisor with Booz & Company, has extensive experience in the automotive and electronics industries, with more than 25 years of experience at driving strategy and performance improvement in Fortune 500 environments.
1. There is a lot of talk going on about EVs [...]

Maybe we have been looking at this all wrong. Yes, electric cars are expensive. Yes, without range-extenders, they have a limited range. Yes, they take a long time to recharge. This doesn’t make the case for electric cars look very convincing. But look at it this way, will we really have a choice in the [...]

There’s one story in cleantech today: Tesla Motors‘ public sale.
The electric car maker just raised the bar on its IPO, slated for tomorrow, increasing the number of shares for sale from 11.1 million to 13.3 million. Shares are expected to price between $14 and $16, with the company’s valuation hovering around $1.5 billion.
The word on [...]

Setting aside the question which many have raised about the existence of a pie in the first place, it is an undeniable fact that there is a lack of any mining infrastructure in Afghanistan. What the political motives and implications behind the discovery of lithium and other important minerals in Afghanistan are may never be [...]

Since reports emerged this weekend that Afghanistan is home to a massive deposit of useful minerals, namely lithium, the green news complex has been buzzing about which superpowers will try to dominate it and how it might be used. After all, lithium has been approaching a potentially costly shortage just as a bevy of electric cars [...]

The ability for America to better meet its growing demand for lithium batteries in everything from automobiles to wireless devices, while carving out a technology niche in the internationally-dominated battery separator market, was disclosed today at the 2010 Power Sources Conference.Advanced Membranes Systems (AMS) has announced plans to open a battery separator manufacturing plant that will [...]

For Hybrid Electric Vehicles (vehicles that combine electrical power with a standard internal combustion engine) lithium-ion rechargeable batteries are often touted as the up and coming power source, mainly due to their ability to provide high power and energy from a relatively small battery. But there are some problems to be overcome before these batteries [...]