Although prevention has been the mantra in occupational hearing conservation programs over the years, the hoped-for results have not been realized. Despite years of regulation, hours of training, and ...

ONE of the biggest barriers to effective use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) as the last line of defense against noise in the workplace is that there has never been a good way to test performance ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a plug-in hybrid vehicle for public road tests in Japan and plans tests for the U.S. and Europe. Plug-in hybrids, whose batteries can be recharged ...

January 29, 2008 Plug-in electric hybrid cars represent a simple and effective bridge between today's primarily petrol-driven hybrids and tomorrow's fully electric vehicles. Over short distances, they ...

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With cars like the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf already on sale, plus a handful of startups either selling or building battery-powered cars on U.S. soil, it’s safe to say that the electric car ...

BMW engineers are testing the final prototypes of the X1 plug-in hybrid. As the photos shot by our friends at CarPix reveal, the PHEV version of the second-generation BMW X1 seems to be fitted with ...

TO many people, the notion of living without oil — at least the various forms of oil sloshing around in their cars and S.U.V.’s — is a scratchy-shirt, nuts-and-twigs kind of idea. But with electric ...