For all their differences under the hood, the electric cars coming to market do a pretty good job of disguising their electric identities. That will make these vehicles more attractive to potential buyers, but don’t expect auto sales to flip electric like a light switch. A few weeks ago, I had the chance to drive [...]
The Chevy Volt is as much a software engineering accomplishment as it was a mechanical engineering challenge, according to General Motors. General Motors today plans to bring the Chevy Volt to IBM’s Raleigh, N.C., offices to show off the electric car and celebrate its partnership with IBM’s software business in making the Volt. With the [...]
An electric car created by ex-McLaren Formula One designer Gordon Murray has been unveiled. Three prototypes of the T.27 model will be developed over the next 16 months. The manufacturing process, called iStream, has received £9m of investment, half of which came from the government’s Technology Strategy Board. iStream plants can be just one fifth [...]
Handset maker SonyEricsson has unveiled its first phone built around Google’s Android operating system. The Xperia X10 has an eight megapixel camera, touch screen, GPS and can use apps from the Android Market or SonyEricsson’s Play Now Arena. The X10, known as Rachel while under development, will go on sale early in the first quarter [...]
Solar energy happens to be designed to be used as a comfortable way of getting the right temperatures and light levels through an active solar design. You will find that the passive solar design is where the sunlight is entered into cold conditions and it then is maximized and enters hot weather to be reduced. [...]
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