EV World Webcasts Latest Advances in `Green' Transportation Technology
27 May 1998
EV World Webcasts Latest Advances in `Green' Transportation TechnologyOMAHA, Neb., May 27 -- Using the very latest in audio streaming technology, EV World (http://evworld.com) "webcasts" to its on-line readership the latest news and information on the newly emerging international market for "green" electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. "The Worldwide Web allows us to effectively merge three key information media: the printed word, audio and video, into a single, converged medium with global reach and an unprecedented immediacy that, until now, was reserved only for the giant news organizations," said J. William Moore, EV World's publisher and editor in chief. EV World uses Progressive Network's RealAudio streaming software to distribute, via the Web, interviews with key figures in the electric vehicle industry and related fields of environmentalism and renewable energy. Recent interviewees have included Stanford Ovshinsky, inventor of the nickel metal hydride battery, amorphous solar cells and optical memory; and James J. Mackenzie of the World Resources Institute. Interview topics run the gamut from the National Park Service's plans to introduce alternative fueled buses at the Grand Canyon to the recent breakthrough in the production of clean- burning hydrogen gas from water using a one-step solar cell process. "Unlike radio, our listeners aren't dependent on being at the right place on the dial at the right time. Using their personal computers and the free RealPlayer browser plugin, they can listen to 30 minute and longer interviews at their convenience, any time of the day or night," Moore observed. "The selected program begins to play immediately and the audio quality is remarkably good, even over a 28.8 modem connection." In addition to audio interviews, EV World utilizes streaming video. "The quality of streamed video isn't quite as good as audio, but information still can be conveyed effectively and as bandwidth improves, so will the quality of video." EV World also boasts the Internet's only web-based electric vehicle owner's database. In May, Popular Science magazine selected EV World as one of its "Web Watch" sites of the month. The web magazine is published weekly by Digital Revolution, an Omaha, Nebraska-based Internet content developer.