Category: Energy & Efficiency
How can we maintain our future energy supplies?
The authors of ‘The Future – Reinvented: Reimagining Life, Society, and Business’ outline four different scenarios to save the planet’s limited resources including producing your own energy to share with others and […]
Nissan offers low cost power for electric vehicles, introduces new home chargers
At the European launch of its new Leaf in Oslo, Norway, Nissan promised to kickstart the electric car revolution, offering virtually free power to its EV (Electric Vehicle) customers […]
Living in the smart city – solar powered pavements and roads that can charge electric cars
From big data gathering information about pollution, water use and traffic through to smart roads capable of managing autonomous vehicles and charging electric vehicles, Fast Future’s Rohit Talwar, Steve […]
Frankfurt Motor Show. Mercedes unveils first compact electric car, the EQA
Mercedes has revealed the new Concept EQA, its first all-electric EQ concept vehicle in the compact segment, at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2017. Set to rival the Tesla Model 3, the […]
Smart light bulb LightFreq updated. Available on Indiegogo June 23
LightFreq Square2’s wake up mode can wake you up to light, sound or both As long as you have your phone in your pocket, LightFreq Square2 will turn on and […]
Nissan’s PART e-VAN – complete with solar powered roof – charges into Berlin for Champions League Final
Nissan has turned its all-electric e-NV200 into the ultimate party on wheels. The vehicle – called the PART e-VAN (see what they’ve done there) and powered by the 100% electric e-NV200 […]
Government scheme puts £7.5m aside for electric motorbikes, £1500 discounts available
Pictured above:Harley-Davidson goes electric with the Livewire motorcycle Motorcyclists will be offered up to £1,500 to buy electric motorbikes, under a new government scheme, reports Business Green. Up to £7.5m will […]
Elon Musk promises to end Tesla “range anxiety” on Thursday
Hmmmmmm. No, that’s not an impression of a combustion engine, but the sound of some pretty intense scepticism towards Elon Musk’s latest Twitter pronouncement. The billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors […]
Whistl trials electric unicycle, the AirWheel Q3, for urban deliveries
It may look a bit like a poor man’s Segway, but meet the AirWheel unicycle. Billed as a futuristic transport device, it’s being deployed by whistl (formerly TNT Post) to […]
Maybe we're not all doomed: Solar energy cheaper than coal in Australia?
Some potentially good news for a Monday morning: It appears that solar energy could be about to overtake coal as Australia's most viable source of energy. Hopefully, anyway. Writing in The Guardian, Giles Parkinson explains: Last week, for the first…
