Here’s yet another fun little car that could be on the roads within a few years. As one commenter here on CleanTechnica aptly noted recently, we could make huge strides in fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions simply by reducing the size and weight of our vehicles. Hope to see cars like this one below becoming more and more common soon.   All Hail Hiriko: MIT EV Concept Slated for Production in 2013 (via Gas 2.0) Related posts: EADS Announces VoltAir Electric Airline Concept Toray’s Green Sports Car Is Invitation For Collaboration Nanomaterial Being Produced By the Ton...

March 12, 2012
8:00 am	to	4:00 pm

PTAC Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada along with co-sponsors and collaborators invites you and representatives of your organization to participate in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) – Showcase of Technologies.

This highly informative event will present insights into new and emerging technologies. These technologies address high priority challenges, identified by producers, for innovative oil, gas and oil sands applications for exploration, production and the protection of the environment.

This forum will be of interest to producers and other oil and gas industry stakeholders who would like to learn more about emerging technologies that are helping to bridge the innovation gap and climbing towards full commercialization.

Opportunities

- Learn about innovative strategies and technological solutions to address emerging upstream oil and gas industry needs to drive results

- Hear about new technologies which have been demonstrated but are still at the early stages of …

February 1, 2012
6:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

Date: February 1, 2012

Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Location: Ambers Brewery, 9926 78 Avenue NW Edmonton

Topic: Industry Perspectives on the CleanTech Industry in Alberta

Speakers: Kyle Kasawski, Solar Productions, Landmark Group, David Neely, Canadian Smart Grid / Smart Cities – Integration Leader, GE Energy, Klaas Rodenburg, Sustainable Design, Stantec Consulting
Cost: $20 for drink & snacks and a 1 year individual membership to ACTia (limited time offer)

Register for this event

Listen to brief presentations from both SME and larger industry players about their perspectives on the CleanTech Industry in Alberta. Network with like-minded people from business, industry groups, potential investors and government.  Come network and enjoy some food and drinks!

What is ACTia?

ACTia is an association that focuses on addressing common issues facing the clean technology industry. ACTia’s mandate is to promote clean technologies to the private and public sectors. Key areas of interest to …

EV battery prices are projected to drop tremendously by 2015. More info from sister site Gas2′s Andrew Meggison:   The Dropping Price Of The EV Battery (via Gas 2.0) Related posts: Ethanol Industry & Food Prices after Coming End to Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit Gas Prices Up, Transit Use Up Gas Prices to Rise Higher in 2012 ...

Catching up on a number of clean transportation stories we haven’t been able to cover, here are quick summaries of 10 recent stories. The first 6 concern EVs and hybrid-electric vehicles. The following 4 concern trains and transit. Electric Vehicles & Hybrids 1. Tesla Model X Electric SUV to be Unveiled on February 9. Gigaom, interviewing Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, found out that Tesla would be unveiling its all-electric SUV, the Model X, in less than one month. 2. Mitsubishi Selling and Servicing Electric Cars at All of Its UK Franchises. Mitsubishi recently announced that it was creating “the UK’s largest dealer network for electric cars,” according to Business Green. “[A]ll of its franchised dealers will become fully functioning Mitsubishi Electric Vehicle Centres from this month and by the end of March each will have two trained EV sales personnel as well as aftersales technicians.” ...

Researcher Examining Li-ion Battery - Argonne National Laboratory

IBM has invented a lithium-air battery technology that makes it possible to drive electric vehicles (EVs) for 500 miles (804 km) per charge. Lithium-air battery technology is not new, but it does have the potential to achieve unusually high energy densities that rival that of all rechargeable batteries in use today. The reason why batteries with higher energy densities enable EVs to drive further is simply because they are lighter (they have a better gravimetric energy density). Lighter batteries weigh down the vehicle less, so it requires less energy to drive a given distance. This translates into more energy being available for driving. Each kWh (kilowatt-hour) of energy takes you further. A greater gravimetric energy density can also mean that fewer batteries can be used to achieve the usual < ...

  Charis touched on the unequal expectations for and criticisms of electric vehicles (EVs) compared to gasoline-powered vehicles in her post on why EVs are awesome the other day. Over on sister site Gas2, Andrew Meggison gets into that topic a lot more in this repost below. Check it out (& share with your friends… we’ve got a lot of unbalanced press to combat):   Different Standards For Gasoline-Powered Cars Vs. EV’s? (via Gas 2.0) Related posts: Electric First, Gasoline Later – Honda’s New Green Sports Car Why Electric Cars Are Awesome Solar-Powered Air Conditioning for Cars ...

  Most of you reading this are already inclined toward green-type technology, whether that’s clean power generation, electric transportation, or more efficient ways to do things. Today, I’m going to give you one more reason to stop supporting – or at least vocally dislike – big gas and big oil. Yes, We’ve All Heard About This There are a number of people who will happily speak at length about dependence on foreign oil and how it leads to American troops being sent over to oil-rich hotspots to make sure we can still get affordable gas at the pump. There was a pun a while back about how Operation: Iraqi Freedom should have been called Operation: Iraqi Liberation (or O.I.L.), for example. I’m not really one of those people, but I listen when they talk. Oil is not cheap; from the ...

By replacing their internal-combustion 'fingerprints' with electric or hybrid drivetrains built in partnership with other companies, some worry that automakers will lose their unique identity. That's hardly the case, and here's why.

 

OK, I’m doing my top 10 list now. Following up on AWEA’s top 10 wind energy stories and SEIA’s top 10 solar energy stories, I decided I may as well give my own opinion on the top 10 clean energy stories and energy efficiency stories of 2011 (plus one bonus story). There will be some overlap, of course.

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1. 40% drop in cost of solar. This tremendous drop in the cost of solar was, to say the least, massively influential. It helped tons of people and businesses to go solar for less, increased work for numerous solar installers, and helped to put some companies out of business who were working on alternatives to traditional solar PV. The full ramifications are still unclear, but recent reports have shown that ...