Electrical Machines Fundamentals
Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others. The argument goes like this: Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all.…
This is about trying to take control of how our lives are wired. In these backlands of northern Guatemala, you can actually see where the energy grid stops. The power line runs by the road until, suddenly, it just doesn’t. And, out past this point, people’s homes work without the modern conveniences that most urbanites…
It’s a really exciting time to be alive. We have a front row seat to the only known transformation of a world powered by dirty fossil fuels, to a planet that gets its energy from renewable, clean sources. It’s going to happen just once, right now. These are the top 10 potential energy sources of…
GENeco is undertaking a trial with some electric and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles to see if they’ll be suitable to replace the diesel vehicles that exist in our fleet at the moment the reason we’re doing this trial is that our existing diesel vehicles are bad for the environment in two ways the first one…
– Meet the Electric Vehicle Association of Alberta. Well, like, two of them. There’s a lot more. Electric vehicle ownership isn’t mainstream, yet. Not anywhere, really, and not here in Edmonton, Alberta. But the Electric Vehicle Association of Alberta, they have done the road trips, they have faced the Alberta weather, they are convinced that…
We’ve gotta get rid of these gas guzzlers and switch to electric cars that plug into the land of rainbows and unicorns. Hi guys, Lissette here for DNews. Often called “zero emissions” vehicles, electric cars are surely better for the environment, right? Ehhh not so fast…Their entire life-cycle, from manufacture to use to disposal, needs…