Hope-Bearer for Cleaner Air? The world’s cheapest car, the Indian-built Tata Nano, will launch on Monday, but another Indian company manufactures an electric car that has proven wildly popular — in London as well as Bangalore. The capillaries of India’s cities are clogged with every imaginable form of conveyance: hulking buses, braying bullock carts and [...]

Small Car Sales boom in Germany amid automaker crisis! Even as car makers around the world suffer amid the global economic downturn, some manufacturers are seeing record sales in Germany. Berlin’s “scrapping bonus” is paying off. Bailout, of course, has already become the word of the year. And these days, with the global automobile industry [...]

The New Energy Economy: Global warming issues have been pushed to the back burner by many doubting political and corporate leaders in view of the government bailouts, unemployment surge, and rise in home foreclosures. Venture capitalists are getting cautious about investments. Amid this despair some voices are saying it is the right time to launch [...]

Engineers are constantly coming up with new ways to dispose of greenhouse gases. The latest idea is to hide carbon dioxide exhaust in cement. The method could revolutionize one of the most carbon-intensive industries in the world. Vinod Khosla has a lot of money, and he wants to put it to good use, which explains [...]

A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. The flight was a demonstration for the US military, which is looking for [...]

The German government envisions thousands of wind turbines in the waters off the country’s northern coast. Construction on the first project begins in August. And many more are in the planning stages. Has Germany’s offshore energy revolution finally arrived? The official blessing came from the very top. “Wind energy is a very important prospect for [...]