Electric & Hybrid Car Technologies

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW ELECTRIC & HYBRID CAR TECHNOLOGIES The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), recently awarded 2.4 billion dollars in stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to, “accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of the next generation of U.S. batteries and electric vehicles”. The goal of the stimulus money was

SOLAR POWERED ENERGY: EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY IN PHOTOVOLTAICS First Generation, or Crystalline Silicon- Crystalline silicon has historically been the favorite material for solar cells, even though it’s not a great light absorber, and it needs to be several hundred microns thick to work properly (which creates high materials costs). Crystalline silicon is not only expensive but also