During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., Dr. Chris Damm gave a talk on “Well-to-Wheel Emissions from Motor Vehicles.” Photo Credit: Michael Pereckas, via Flickr/Creative Commons

At Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I finally got the chance to ride in the Kurrent, the LSV from American Electric. A NEV with top speeds of 25 mph, the Kurrent costs .02 cents per mile to operate and is being [See the full post…]

At Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., the University of Wisconsin had their Challenge X team present. The team placed 2nd in the competition for the last 2 years with its diesel electric propulsion system.

During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., Jonathan Foley, from the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), gave a presentation titled, “News From A Warming Planet.”

During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I met Jamie Derr, a farmer and advocate for biodiesel and biofuels. He’s also COO of Great Lakes BioFuels, a privately-held biodiesel distribution and services company that’s also involved in biofuel raw materials (feedstock) research [See the full post…]

During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I met Dr. Rich McKone of Peoria, Ill. A proud owner of a 1967 Aston Martin, Rich competed in the Great Race in his british race car with some impressive results. He will be converting [See the full post…]

During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I had the opportunity to tour the Continental Mobile Safety Exhibit. An interactive media display, the exhibit tours the country highlighting all the technologies Continental is working on bringing to vehicles, including vehicle to vehicle [See the full post…]

The concept of car sharing is growing. Not a rental car company, the model is to pay for only the time you use a vehicle. In Madison, Wisc., Community Car has been around for four years and continues to expand. [See the full post…]

While at Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I took a ride on the GM Hybrid Bus with driver Dave Carey, who was a wealth of information about the vehicle. With it’s Allison transmission system, the bus delivers better fuel economy and [See the full post…]

Jeffrey Radtke is owner/president of Neodymics, of Madison, Wisc. During Hybridfest, Jeffrey demonstrated his Cyclemotor, a bicycle-to-moped upgrade that replaces the front wheel on any standard bicycle with a power on demand control mechanism complete with batteries, motor, transmission, and [See the full post…]

During Hybridfest 2007 in Madison, Wisc., I met Theodore (Ted) Bohn of Argonne National Laboratory. As a power electronics engineer, Bohn is at the forefront of assessing advanced and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technologies for the FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies [See the full post…]

During Hybridfest, in Madison, Wisc., I met Bill Kinney, a hypermiler from the Seattle area, who traveled to the event in his Honda Insight, averaging about 108 miles per gallon and spending only $56 on gas for the 2000+ mile [See the full post…]

Ron DeLong is a manager at LinearLOGIC and the brains behind ScanGauge, a 3-in-1 computer that reads and displays information about your car such as fuel economy, engine load, average speed and more. The device was quite popular at this [See the full post…]

Have you ever been speeding along on a highway only to come upon someone going the speed limit or under? It may be a hypermiler. Hypermiling is a term coined by Wayne Gerdes of CleanMPG.com, a Website dedicated to the [See the full post…]

Intel unveiled the next stages for its new 45 nanometer process technology. The new microarchitecture is code-named Nehalem and represents a major shift in design. The technology is aimed partly at the requirements of next-generation media services over the Internet. [See the full post…]

Last September at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge, a design competition aimed at pushing desktop design far beyond its traditional “beige box.” To compete for a $1 million bounty, more than two dozen designers [See the full post…]

In San Francisco, Intel, with Motion Computing and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, announced the launch of the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a lightweight tablet computer specifically designed for use in hospitals, for nurse patient [See the full post…]

In his keynote, Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel’s digital health group, delivered an impassioned appeal for health care solutions to developers at IDF Fall 2006 in San Francisco. More information from IDF Intel Digital Health Group’s [See the full post…]

Remedy Entertainment’s action-thriller video game Alan Wake was shown running on Intel’s quad-core CPU’s at the Intel Developer Forum. Remedy Development Director Marcus Maki spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about playing the game on quad-core processors in part one of [See the full post…]

Ultra Mobile PCs were on display today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA. Intel’s Pankaj Sinha and Rochelle Whelan met with PodTech’s Rio Pesino to discuss how the technology compares to PCs and laptops, as well as [See the full post…]

Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge to award up to $1 million in prizes to the PC or CE manufacturers that designs the smallest, most stylish, multimedia optimized PCs based on Intel Viiv technology with Intel Core 2 Duo [See the full post…]

IDF – Ken Kawada Product Marketing Manager for Hitachi on new Blade servers March 8, 2006, San Francisco Ken Kawada Product Marketing Manager with Hitachi talks with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about their new blade servers and virtualization integration. For more [See the full post…]

PodTech News’ Jason Lopez and John Furrier were on hand for Intel’s private briefing to jounalists and analysts regarding their technical research roadmap. Intel is creating an open and transparent environment in disclosing their research plans around the future of [See the full post…]