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Konarka Technologies & Webasto collaborate

Konarka Technologies & Webasto collaborate for Organic Solar Application in automotive industry

Sun-believable solar paint

Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light—electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside.

Waste heat research

The University of Wollongong team along with researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have created large marble-size pellets of thermoelectric nanomaterials.

First solar cells with quantum efficiency over 100 percent

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.

Future Australian trucking: silent and green

RMIT University researchers have developed Australia's first hydrogen fuel cell truck, demonstrating how vehicle design and new sustainable technologies can make freight transport clean, green and silent.

Industrial e-concept vehicles from Nissan

From July 2011, Nissan began efforts to widen the EV range into the LCV sector, with the launch of global proving tests for the NV200 based EV.

Better batteries

Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research.

Tiny solar cell could make a big difference

How small can a solar cell be and still be a powerhouse?

Organic semiconductors - from molecules to the revolution of light

Passion, excellent know-how and close networking win the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011.

Electric car unplugged - Daimler to test inductive charging

Charging electric cars without an electric cable - how does that work? Daimler AG is about to test inductive charging for the first time on a vehicle in everyday use in the form of a technically modified Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-CELL.

Holistic approach to energy harvesting

The Holistic project joins up three different research fields, including energy harvesting and MEMS processing methods, low-power embedded computing systems, and electronic design automation.

Imec, Polyera & Solvay have achieved a new world-record efficiency

Imec, Polyera and Solvay set 8.3% efficiency record for organic solar cell with inverted device architecture

DOE awards over $7 million to advance hydrogen storage technologies

Energy department awards more than $7 mllion for inovative hydrogen storage technologies in fuel cell electric vehicles.

Wind and solar powered UAV wins award

The engineering student received the accolade for his work on the design of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that would be powered by the sun and wind.

Graphene innovator Vorbeck Materials receives additional financing

Vorbeck Materials Corp. announced that it has completed a fully subscribed series 3 financing.

Valeo acquires electric supercharger technology

As part of its strategy of developing solutions to reduce CO2 emissions, Valeo has acquired the Variable Torque Enhancement System (VTES) business of British automotive technology development company Controlled Power Technologies (CPT).

Footfalls and Heartbeats

Entrepreneur Karen Bender could have "hatched" her latest venture anywhere in the world but she chose Wellington's business incubator Creative HQ over them all.

Scientists report solar breakthrough

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.

Imec, Polyera and Solvay set 8.3% efficiency record for organic solar

Imec, Polyera and international chemical group Solvay have achieved a new world-record efficiency of 8.3% for polymer-based single junction organic solar cells in an inverted device stack.

Charging infrastructure for EVs - Bosch and Mennekes sign agreement

Bosch Software Innovations GmbH and Mennekes Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co KG have signed an agreement sealing their cooperation on charging infrastructure systems for electric and hybrid vehicles.