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  • Electric Harley-Davidson: All the power with none of the roar?

    Harley-Davidson debuted an electric bike called the LiveWire. Will its innovation drown out the gas-guzzling gusto of other motorcycles?

  • Boeing 787 probe centers on lithium-ion battery maker

    Boeing 787's lithium-ion battery maker is the focus of an investigation launched Monday by Japanese and US officials. Boeing 787 Dreamliners were grounded after an overheated battery forced the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways 787 flight last week.

  • Who's killing the electric car? Consumers.

    Sales of Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf are far short of expectations. Fisker and other electric-car makers are in trouble. Will the lack of consumer sales kill the electric car, just as it did in the '90s?

  • Tesla Model S electric zaps the competition

    Praise pours in for the Tesla Model S, a costly car that uses no gas.

  • Why your phone's battery life is (still) underwhelming

    Smart phone processors and download speeds are many times faster than just a few years ago. So why hasn't battery life made similar leaps?

  • How Detroit made gas-fueled cars smarter

    Automakers have found new ways to save energy, such as the Ford F-150's new aluminum body and Chrysler's nine-speed cars.

  • Solar garden: Model T of renewable energy?

    Renewable energy law in Minnesota requires utilities to get 1.5 percent of their power from solar. By Monday, Xcel Energy has to show how it would manage rollout of neighborhood solar gardens. Rather than an expensive home retrofit for renewable energy, solar gardens allow residents to buy shares of solar power.

  • Five gifts to 'green' your dad on Father's Day

    Here are five energy-saving Father's Day gift ideas to help 'green' your dad:

  • Green flights? NASA explores biofuel use in planes.

    Commercial jets could fly safely with a blend of jet fuel that includes a plant oil, NASA researchers said Thursday. NASA is one of several government agencies examining the use of renewable biofuels to reduce dependency on foreign oil while reducing carbon emissions.

  • Obama's $2 billion plan to wean US off foreign oil (+video)

    During a visit to Argonne National Lab, President Obama proposes using royalties from offshore drilling in federal waters to create an 'Energy Security Trust Fund' to pay for research into battery and clean-fuel technologies.  

  • Do Obama cabinet picks match his greener second-term talk?

    President Obama nominated new leaders for the Department of Energy and the EPA Monday. Environmentalists like one of them, energy-industry advocates like the other.

  • Energy Voices Airbus to ditch lithium-ion batteries – for now

    Airbus is telling airlines that its new A350 will use nickel-cadmium instead of lithium-ion batteries until questions about lithium-ion batteries have been resolved. The Airbus A350 should debut late next year.

September 28, 2014

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Models present creations by Japanese designer Junya Watanabe for Comme des Garcons as part of his Spring/Summer 2015 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week, Saturday.

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    Owners complain that some hybrid-car batteries conk out early. What is the lifespan of a hybrid battery?

  • Electric cars 101: What does MPGe mean, exactly?

  • Tidal turbines: New sparks of hope for green energy from beneath the waves

  • The great electric car race of 2010

  • No more power lines?

  • Wind energy industry looks to Copenhagen for a mandate

  • The hidden costs of fossil fuels - and biofuels, too

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  • Solar-hydrogen house in Florida combines new, old

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