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Displaying items by tag: Hybrid car

Sunday, 31 January 2010 08:18

Hybrid cars score well in 2009

The Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius, both hybrid models, score in second and third place, respectively, in Euro NCAP's list of safest cars for 2009.

Published in Energy
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:46

CSIRO hybrid plugs into the future

The CSIRO and energy distributor, SP AustNet, have started a three-month road trial of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, after modification of the car using a US-developed conversion kit at the CSIRO’s laboratories in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton.

Published in Energy
Sunday, 16 August 2009 10:15

CSIRO powering up in US market

The Australian-invented UltraBattery is set for accelerated development in the United States with the US Government awarding a grant of $US32.5 million to manufacturer East Penn to produce the battery.

Published in Energy
Like most drivers these days, I've been exploring options for cutting costs which still enable me to run a car. It has been a surprise to discover that the Australian Government elected last year partially on its green credentials is actually more friendly to big oil than alternative energy.

Published in Beerfiles
Looks like GPS satnav systems will keep on expanding their usefulness to drivers, not only providing mapping, traffic information, red light and speed camera alerts and accident black spots – but now altering drivers to crime hotspots too... at least in Japan, thanks to Honda.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Want to buy the car that only the super-rich of the 1910 and 1920s could afford? It’s the Detroit Electric, a car that should have seen the world choose electricity over petrol decades ago, but for the fact oil and petrol became so cheap as to give electric cars a shock that they’re only recovering from now.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Friday, 15 February 2008 16:38

007's underwater car is no longer fiction!

If you’ve ever wished you could drive your car underwater like James Bond in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, Swiss company Rinspeed have launched the sQuba, letting drivers do just that – but at a cost of US $1.5 million it’ll be a while before most consumers take to the water – in their cars!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Thursday, 17 January 2008 09:01

CSIRO's UltraBattery to power hybrid cars

The CSIRO has developed a revolutionary 'UltraBattery' for use in hybrid petrol/electrical vehicles that combines supercapacitor and conventional lead acid battery technology into a single unit. It is able to deliver the benefits of both technologies and with much lower cost and longer life than a conventional battery.

Published in Energy

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