The number of people able to get their hands on Chevrolet's electric Volt car has increased, with the company announcing that it would be adding Texas, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to the original line-up of test markets (California, Michigan and Washington D.C.). Austin and NYC will start getting Volt cars - which can drive for up to 40 miles solely on electric power, then flip to an engine-generator that promises a further 300 miles - near the end of 2010, with a broader roll-out at the start of next year.
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Chevrolet boost Volt launch markets: Texas, New York, New Jersey & Connecticut added
Belkin Conserve range gets new intelligent plugs, energy meter & charging station
Belkin has outed a new range of earth-friendly power products that it reckons will help people not only reduce their carbon emissions but - since a little self-interest is always good - cut their electricity bills too. Slotting into Belkin's Conserve range, the four new products include the Conserve Insight, a plug-in energy meter that shows how much juice your appliance is guzzling, and the Conserve Valet, a home charging station for USB-powered devices like cellphones and PMPs, which automatically shuts down the supply when each is fully charged.
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Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit promises eco-power later in 2010
It's not just four new affordable phones that Nokia have for developing countries today; the company have also been thinking about how you might want to charge them if your power supply isn't exactly reliable. Enter the Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit, which straps to your push-bike and uses a dynamo to recharge your phone via the standard 2mm Nokia power connector.
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Lenovo ThinkPad L412 and L512 now shipping
Lenovo's reassuringly green ThinkPad L412 and L512 notebooks have gone on sale, and they bring with them a pleasant boost in basic specs. Rather than the $649 Celeron base model we initially heard about, both the 14-inch L412 and 15.6-inch L512 kick off at $599 with an Intel Core i3 CPU. An upgrade to a Core i5 processor is just $150.
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Casio G-Shock GW-3000B & GA-100 Review
Casio’s G-Shock watch line has a strong pedigree and an equally strong following, ranging from affordable models for those who simply want to pay a little and get a sturdy, shockproof timepiece all the way to more expensive, feature-packed models. We’ve two such extremes on the SlashGear testbench today: the gravity-shunning Casio G-Shock GW-3000 and the sub-$100 G-Shock GA-100. Check out the full review after the cut.
MIT’s Printed paper solar cells could be installed with “a staple gun”
Today, solar panels can be fragile, unwieldy to install and expensive; in a decade's time we could be wallpapering the outside of our houses with them. Researchers at MIT have created an inkjet-style printing technology that can lay carbon-based organic semiconductor solar cells down onto a paper substrate, one of the headline breakthroughs that coincides with the opening of their new multi-million dollar Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center. According to center director Vladimir Bulovic, it paves the way for a time where people "could use a staple gun to install a solar panel."
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Solar City Tower promises huge waterfall for Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympics
If there's one thing that Rio de Janeiro has been short of these past years, it's a huge solar powered waterfall standing 105m above sea level. In fact, you could argue that most places lack one, but architects RAFAA reckon Rio de Janeiro deserve the Solar City Tower for the 2016 Olympic Games. The waterfall is actually the showier side of a solar power plant which, RAFAA reckon, would supply enough energy to help make the Games carbon-neutral.
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Nissan Leaf EV pre-sales kick off today
Nissan's Leaf may not be the most aesthetically pleasing all-electric car, but it's looking set to be the first one in a long time to go on sale in the US. The company is contacting those would-be buyers in the US who signed up for more information, telling them that - as of later on today - they'll be able to put down a $99 refundable deposit to buy or lease a Leaf of their own.
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Lenovo ThinkPad L Series is greenest to date
Lenovo has announced the newest entrants to its ThinkPad range, the L Series, and according to the company they're the greenest notebooks on the market. Packing Intel Celeron, Core i3 and Core i5 processors together with either a 14-inch 16:9 display on the L412 or a 15-inch 16:9 display on the L512, the range kicks off at $649 but offers up to 8hrs of runtime.
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ASUS add IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet to M4 Series motherboards
ASUS have already thrown AMD Phenom II X6 support into their M4-series of motherboards, and now the company have thrown another tidbit into the mixture: IEEE 802.3az. In case you're not familiar with the latest acronym, that's Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) and it promises to cut power consumption by up to 81.3-percent during periods of low network activity.
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Ford use Microsoft Hohm intelligent electric car charging; WP7 app in the pipeline
It's been a while since we last heard about Ford's plans for intelligent hybrid and electric-vehicle charging, but now the motoring giant has picked up Microsoft to help out. Microsoft Hohm sounds like it should be a Buddhist-themed April Fools prank, but it's apparently a new energy monitoring system that will help balance load across the power grid and make for more efficient, cheaper recharges. There's also talk of a Windows Phone 7 app - complete with a homescreen widget - though currently only at the concept stage, which could remotely inform you when your car is charging, what its battery status is and how long there is left until it's completely topped up.
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Energy Star approve gas-powered alarm clock in covert government inquiry
Energy Star - just one more army in the fight to green our gadgets, right? Turns out, according to the US Government Accountability Office, Energy Star is "for the most part a self-certification program vulnerable to fraud and abuse"; they set up twenty fake products - including websites to go along with them - and sent them in to Energy Star to be certified. Fifteen were accepted, including "a gas-powered alarm clock".
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