Electric VW Golf MK VII; Buses Bring Silence to the Streets; Solar Powered Racing Car; DOE offers $100 million; Recharging EVs with Wind

VW Golf MK VII could get electricified The new MK VI Golf has only just gone on sale here in North America but VW engineers are already hard at work on the next iteration. The Golf is expected to gain both a hybrid and a pure battery electric version in coming years.

New Buses Bring Silence to the Streets The newest addition to New York City’s formidable bus fleet — an experimental turbine hybrid known as the DesignLine — is notable mainly for a feature it does not have: noise.

World’s Smallest Solar Powered Racing Car The World’s Smallest Solar Powered Racing Car is basically a tiny racing car powered exclusively by solar energy. Using a tiny solar panel, the car moves along any smooth flat surface using it’s tiny electric motor. Damn, that’s tiny.

DOE offers $100 million for far-out energy tech The Department of Energy is making $100 million of government stimulus money available to researchers with ideas for radically different energy technologies.

Recharging EVs with Wind Power On the Danish island of Bornholm, a coalition of government, academia and industry are working on the Edison Project – a pilot project that uses wind power to recharge electric vehicles.