As if living in the Bahamas weren’t good enough, 19-year-old James Tuchel, Masters student in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, spent his summer converting a car to run on water. Yep, H2O. The car is technically a gasoline-hydrogen hybrid in which tap water is split using electrolysis, freeing the [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Diesel Electric Hybrid Yacht Enters Production in Europe
August 18th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen Of course, alternative vehicles and even this website, About Alternative Cars, doesn’t necessarily have to just be limited to land-based transportation. A company called Seaway in Europe has begun producing a hybrid diesel electric boat called the Greenline 33 Hybrid. It’s the world’s first production hybrid and solar powered boat. The Greenline can run on [...]
Posted in Alternative Vehicles 
Tags: diesel electric hybrid, Diesel engine, Electric vehicle, Hybrid vehicle, Volkswagen 
Comments OffBattery Swap Trials in Tokyo Successful, New EV Technology
August 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Better Place, a company based in Israel, has been working for years on charging stations that operate in a similar way to today’s gas stations. They’ve also been pioneering an idea that could mean the future of electric vehicles and an end to some of the problems inherent in battery technology: battery swapping. Better Place [...]
Posted in All Electric Car, Alternative Cars, Electric Car, EV Cars Tags: A123Systems, Battery, BetterPlace, Electric vehicle battery, Israel, Japan, Nissan Motors, Tokyo Comments OffFirst Biobutanol Car Wins American Le Mans Race
August 11th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Dyson Racing, whose Mazda-Lola race car participates in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), took the checkered flag on Tuesday, marking the first time in the venerable racing series that a participant has won using biobutanol as a fuel source. The fuel is made specifically for the race team by BP as biologically-derived isobutanol. Isobutanol, [...]
Posted in Fuel Alternatives Tags: Advanced Engine Research, American Le Man Series, Auto racing, Lola Cars, Motorsports Comments OffWhy Plug-in Hybrids Get Better Fuel Economy Than Hybrids
August 9th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia Something confusing to many people is the idea that a gasoline hybrid like the Toyota Prius and a gasoline hybrid like the plug-in Chevrolet Volt have such different fuel mileage (efficiency) numbers. Why do plug-ins get better mileage (by the EPA) than do regular hybrids that don’t charge from the grid? The [...]
Posted in All Electric Car, Alternative Cars, Alternative Vehicles Tags: Chevrolet Volt, Electric vehicle, Fuel economy in automobiles, Gasoline, Plug-in hybrid, Prius, Toyota, Toyota Prius Comments Off
