When Honda starts testing cars at its new test track in Sakura, Japan, its test models will zoom by where it’s building a new 10 megawatt solar farm.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Solar powers mobile cell towers to aid firefighters
In states like Wyoming, it’s not unusual to lose cell phone coverage in the vast expanses of rural terrain.
Stanford researchers create world’s thinnest solar absorbers
Stanford scientists published work that in the journal Nano Letters that makes most thin-film PV devices look like a whale.
Volvo’s portable solar charging pavillion turns heads
Volvo has made headlines this week with the unfurling of its fancy portable solar electric vehicle charging station for the world’s first plug-in hybrid diesel car, the V60.