Research

Toyota announced that it has developed a plug-in hybrid vehicle and become the first manufacturer to have such a vehicle certified for use on public roads in Japan. Toyota will also provide plug-in (PHEV) hybrid prototypes to the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Institute [...]

Minister Cramer of the Ministry for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment is taking part in a user trial of the world’s first exclusively photovoltaic-powered (PV) computer mouse. The trial should demonstrate whether the mouse, named ‘Sole Mio’, can be fully charged during busy daily activities. The computer mouse was developed within the Syn-Energy programme [...]