Green license plates in Ontario come with privileges
Canada’s province of Ontario has a plan that, by 2020, 1 of every 20 cars on the road should be an electric vehicle. To encourage drives to adopt hybrids and electric vehicles, a new license plate is being offered for green vehicles.
Vehicles bearing the new plates will be eligible for a number of special perks, including use of recharging stations and special parking spaces. But
Nissan doubling battery capacity by 2015
Nissan has announced that Nissan and Renault electric cars will have double today’s battery capacity by 2015. That means that the range for cars like the Leaf should double by that time as well.
The big change that will bring about this leap in battery capacity is a transition to an NMC (lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode) battery. The company is in the late stages of
Chocolate could contain pesticides
While the topic of pesticide use in cocoa plant management may be upsetting because of the popularity of chocolate, it is definitely a worthy subject — especially if consumers are unaware they are ingesting trace amounts of chemicals while consuming chocolate.
A study that sampled various conventional chocolate products found tiny amounts of lindane. (Samantha Maddell has an in depth article about pesticide use in cocoa
