Volkswagen has been having a rough go of it lately. Last month, it came to light that the car company had installed software in some 11 million of its diesel vehicles in order to cheat diesel emissions figures. And yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Toyota had knocked Volkswagen out of the top spot for global auto sales. Banking on 60's nostalgia, […]
So, right off the bat, if you don’t know what a bike-share is, it’s a program in which many bicycle stations are set up and people can rent a bike to use for a certain time frame and return it at a different station. It’s seen in many cities where cycling infrastructure is growing and […]
Australian home improvement company, Halfprice.com.au, has put together a list of the top 10 most energy efficient cities in the world. At EcoWatch, we have featured several greenest cities and countries rankings in the past—from the 10 greenest cities in North America to the top 10 greenest countries in the world and even the more exhaustive top 25 greenest […]
In the frenzy of coverage of the outrageous Volkswagen use of sophisticated computer techniques to shut down the pollution controls on 11 million of VW’s TDI diesel automobiles once they were no longer sitting in a test facility, only a few have noted that this is not the first such episode—although the last one involved mostly […]
Again and again we hear about corporations doing bad things so they can make more money: polluting, selling contaminated food or otherwise harming people’s health, selling products that injure people or just don’t do what they advertise, tricking and scamming people out of their money, selling banned goods or providing financial services for terrorists or […]
Tesla has become incredibly popular in recent years. The electric car company’s revolutionary powerwall battery allows you to charge your car with energy generated from residential solar panels. It has already sold out through 2016. And Elon Musk is hoping his Model S will be the first mass-produced all-electric car. He’s building a Tesla Gigafactory outside of Reno, Nevada that […]
It’s only the second night of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and Colbert is already making headlines. He had Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and chairman of SolarCity, on the show last night. Tesla’s Powerwall battery, which allows homes and small businesses to use and store energy generated from residential solar panels, is so […]
Airbnb and Tesla Motors are “giving travelers a new way to get away.” Last week, the companies announced a partnership that will bring charging stations to select homes across the globe, starting with the California coast. “Together, we’re building a world with no limits to how far you can travel and how you get there,” says […]
Folding bikes are already incredibly convenient, but throw in a battery and an electric motor, and now it’s a bike commuter’s dream. At 26 pounds, the A-Bike Electric claims to be the lightest and most compact e-bike in world. Small but strong. This tiny e-bike has a 15-mile range with a top speed of 12 […]
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