Most modern cars now have onboard black box recorders, but the standard units typically only store the most recent few seconds of driving data.  They are used in accident investigations.  And consumers have already been able to purchase recorders that track your vehicle’s braking, acceleration, mileage, and spit out a report, extracting the data via OBD II [...]

We have never simply posted a press release, but they remain essential to keeping track of what’s going on out there. Today we received two press releases, almost back to back, that have a lot to do with each other.
The first one announced a major new partnership between Caterpillar, “the world’s leading manufacturer of construction [...]

It’s always nice to know along with extremely high worker productivity and a very hard working people, America’s heavy industry is still able to deliver manufactured goods that compete and are sold on the global market.  What better combination of brawn and brains than a modern green locomotive, and in Erie, Pennsylvania, that is exactly [...]

There is an inevitable conflict between economic growth and environmental protection, and balancing these necessities is never easy.  But as environmental regulations continue to increase in scope and degree, there are also new and improved tools for companies to use to monitor and report their performance.
For over 25 years, ESS (Environmental Support Solutions), based in [...]

In 2004, in mid-career, already having grown and sold two companies, and after an extensive investigation into the energy-related applications of nanotechnology, Matt Trevithick joined the Venrock team.  Venrock was started in the 1930’s by Laurance Rockefeller, with their first big hit being an investment in McDonnell Aircraft Company.  Since then, Venrock has scored again and again, making [...]

Is an affordable EV mini-roadster almost here?  PML Flightlink’s EW Series of roadworthy in-wheel motors includes the EW 30/60.  Each of these motors weighs just under 40 pounds, or 18 kilograms, and each motor runs up to 14.4 kilowatts, or 19.3 horsepower.

PML Flightlink’s EW Series 30/60,
14.4 kW in-wheel motor.
(Photo: PML Flightlink)

With “internal tapered heavy duty roller bearings [...]

Everyone tends to agree that 100% battery powered cars need batteries with energy densities only achieved with lithium ion technology, but virtually all hybrid cars still get by with nickel metal hydride batteries.  No more.
Today in Geneva, Switzerland, at the 78th International Motor Show, General Motors announced that by 2010 they will be using lithium ion batteries for their entire [...]