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Eco Factor: Replacing chemicals inside a lithium-ion battery with oxygen enhances storage capacity 10 times. Increasing lithium-ion batteries storage capacity without adding much weight or increasing the size of the pack is the puzzle car and...

Eco Factor: Energy-saving battery technology will enable lithium batteries to recharge in mere seconds. Portable batteries are the backbone of the technology-dependent world of today. Be it cars or portable gadgets that we rely on, so much is all..

Eco Factor: Battery-powered boat uses solar panels for a recharge. Alan Belle, an engineering lecturer at the Australian Maritime College, and his team have developed a battery-powered, solar-assisted boat dubbed the Greenliner. The designers of...

Eco Factor: Car powered by a hybrid propulsion system. Big cities today are far from being pleasant. Traffic jams, pollution and noise seem to be the requirement for any city to be called a metropolis. Recently we saw several car concepts that...

I recently came across this modern-day gadget, which is a Solar Powered Air Purifier-cum-Disinfector. Well, can you think of any such useful and environmentally safe gadget? I can’t. So, I feel this product is indeed contemporary and distinctive....

Public transport systems are the main means of transport in many countries including many developed countries. Though owning a car is pretty common, with increase in oil prices, one is forced to switch to alternate means either in terms of fuel or...

“The first vehicles to use lithium-ion batteries will come in 2009,” contemplated Ric Fullop, a thirty plus entrepreneur and an electrical engineer. But here it is already. This is the first of its kind (electric car) to use lithium...