Science news articles about 'volkswagen'

  • Volkswagen, Sanyo to develop lithium-ion battery: report

    Volkswagen AG will join forces with Japan's Sanyo Electric to develop a lithium-ion battery, a key component of hybrid and electric cars, the Nikkei newspaper reported Sunday.
  • Volkswagen plans electric car in 2013: head

    German auto maker Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013, VW head Martin Winterkorn said Friday.
  • Germany launches programme to develop hybrid vehicles

    The German goverment and industrial partners including auto giant Volkswagen launched Thursday a programme to encourage the development of more environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles.
  • Energy storage for hybrid vehicles

    ... modules in a project called "Electromobility Fleet Test". The pilot project was launched by Volkswagen and Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment BMU together with seven other partners. The ...
  • Superglue from the sea

    ... colony. "One grain of sand at a time it builds big, reef-like colonies the size of Volkswagens," Stewart says. "A colony looks like a mound." In the lab, Stewart previously showed the worms will use ...
  • Fossil of 43-foot super-snake Titanoboa found in Colombia

    ... was the mother of all snakes, a nightmarish behemoth as long as a school bus and as heavy as a Volkswagen Beetle that ruled the ancient Amazonian rain forest for 2 million years before slithering into ...
  • VW, Toshiba to develop electric car drive systems

    Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car maker, and the Japanese electronics group Toshiba on Thursday unveiled an accord to jointly develop electric drive units and other elements that VW said will allow it ...
  • Forgotten and lost -- when proteins 'shut down' our brain

    ... by the DFG Research Center "Molecular Physiology of the Brain" (CMPB) in Göttingen, the Volkswagen foundation and an institute overlapping Max Planck Society project, 'Toxic protein conformation' ", ...
  • UBC engineering students escape charges in botched bridge prank

    Five UBC engineering students have escaped charges for a botched attempt to suspend a Volkswagen Beetle from a Vancouver bridge last month - as long as they complete an alternate measures program.
  • GARP makes the difference

    ... "GARP". Michael Probst-Kepper is a researcher in a junior research group that is financed by the German Volkswagen foundation, he works at both HZI and MHH. He has now deciphered the special role of ...
  • Researchers study 'personality traits' of cars

    ... decals on the front bumper, flowers in the dashboard vase and lime-green paint job only confirmed Dennis Slice's perception of a Volkswagen Beetle parked in a lot at Florida State University.
  • Rolling and roaming in New Zealand by camper van

    ... My husband, Nolan, and I had pulled in next to a train station to make coffee in our rented Volkswagen Vanagon camper when a wiry, red-haired man ambled over and knocked on our sliding door. It was ...
  • Delaware State U. scientists refine hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle power plants

    ... of a conventional auto and double that of a gasoline-powered hybrid, the car maker says. Volkswagen also is committed to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, ...
  • High-tech vehicle design boosts emergency rescue capacity

    ... a range of aluminium-sandwich box-body adaptations based on standard on- and off-road vehicles such as Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz and Fiat vans and Unimog multi-purpose four-wheel-drive lorries. ...
  • Self-healing surfaces

    ... a process for producing electroplated layers with nano-capsules, in a project being financed by the Volkswagen Foundation. At only a few hundred nanometers in diameter, the capsules are measured on ...

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