But How Do They All Fit In Such A Compact Car?
This is the team behind the solar car which won the Global Green challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide. Seems to me that they would have been pretty crowded in that thing… (more…)

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As the ecology-focused, multi-national COP 15 conference in Copenhagen gets under way Sanyo has unveiled its latest green energy machine. Scheduled to go on display at the Eco Products 2009 International Exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight tomorrow, the Solar Electric Vehicle is powered by Sanyo solar panels and lithium ion batteries. The amazing feature...
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When Amazon launched the global Kindle back in October last year, they said that they’d be following up with a global version of the larger DX model some time in 2010. Well, it looks like it might happen sooner rather than later… (more…)
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