IKEA charging stations

The electric car market soon is a notable expansion, as planned by the major manufacturers in the world of the engine by the 2012, and this leads to the establishment of charging stations, and peripheral technologies to do so (such as GPS TomTom Navigator presented above, to provide a sustainable platform for the use of these vehicles.)


On this occasion, we have the example of the firm, IKEA, known for providing electrical appliances for the home that offer a very low power consumption and high performance, which has decided to make a strong investment for the platform of car is comes next year, turning in lathe their electricity supply so that they work.

The first step to take is the installation of charging stations present in the 10 most important stores of the United States, being one of the first steps of the project called ECOtality, which seeks to integrate electric cars with the most visited shopping malls.


The operation of the engines and the autonomies, a survey of data of yields of car batteries, is will be getting in addition to the operation of these centers of cargo, to seek to contribute to the development of new technologies to obtain a better overall performance.




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Solar Energy For Cooling Stations

The city of Phoenix, Arizona has become the first of the EE.UU. take advantage of solar energy to provide fresh air to passengers while waiting the train. In one of the stations of urban line, a fresh breeze of air cooled with energy from the Sun will come out with just one click.

In the city of Phoenix daytime temperatures may reach a few ardent 47 ° C. The cold air can reduce the temperature in the interior of the roof of steel and glass from the railway station at about 4 degrees, which is not much but helps to deal with the intense heat. The refrigerator will turn off after 15 minutes of performance to save energy.

This system would work during the day in the summer months, i.e. from May to September.
This development was taken over by the Mayor of the city, phil gordon, who brought the idea after a visit to Dubai and its metro. The company nrg energy agreed to finance this project for $300,000 and will also operate and maintain the system.


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Solar Energy Stations

The charging stations Solar pump are a development of the company Sol Design Lab. One of these devices was set up in a music festival with a dual objective. On the one hand, to offer free solar power to charge gadgets of the attendants and - other - spread the benefits of renewable energy sources and the need for a more efficient energy consumption.

These stations load thrive with photovoltaic panels located on its roof. In the comfortable shadow that offer solar panels, we can sit to load our mobile phones or gadgets. His contribution to the environment is double as Solar pump consists of furniture constructed with recycled material. This type of load stations are also ideal to charge electric bicycles and provide lighting with LED lights.
In this same event there was a curious activity, the use of wheels "hamsters" size human in which participants could run and generate energy with his own movement to load their gadgets.

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