What does it take to convert your car to electric? With gas prices steadily climbing, many individuals are converting their regular gasoline cars to electric cars themselves. These electric cars can go for up to 80 miles on a single charge at top speeds of 65 mph. The cost is anywhere [...]

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Source: NREL.gov
Fuel for our gas- or diesel-powered vehicles costs much more per mile than the power needed for an electric vehicle. Electric vehicles are also clean, quiet, largely independent of imported petroleum, and can be powered using wind generation or another source of renewable electricity.
A roadblock to success for electric vehicles has been their limited [...]

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Can you travel around the world without spending a dollar on gas? A school teacher from Switzerland has done just that. He has built a solar taxi that primarily uses solar energy to power the car with backup energy coming from plugging the car into a grid while at rest. Energy is [...]

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Biodiesel is a renewable fuel produced from agricultural resources such as vegetable oils. In the United States, most biodiesel is made from soybean oil; however canola oil, sunflower oil, recycled cooking oils, and animal fats are also used.
How It’s Made
To make biodiesel, the base oil is put through a process called “esterificiation.” This refining method [...]

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What looks like a car, drives like a car, but doesn’t pollute like a car? It’s Reva, the new battery-run, two-door electric passenger car, now on a street near you. Coupled with India’s accelerated economic growth over the past decade has been tremendous growth in air pollution, 70 percent of which is attributed to cars, [...]

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