From April, households and communities that install generating technologies such as small wind turbines and solar panels will be entitled to claim payments for the electricity they produce.

The Yuneec e430 electric plane is the world’s first electric airplane to be commercially produced. Electric cars are becoming quite popular so it was only a matter of time before electric planes started being manufactured. Electric planes can no longer be considered futuristic.

Bulky mobile phone chargers could soon be a thing of the past with handsets running on soft drinks instead.

Future hybrid cars may no longer need large batteries to store the kinetic energy created by braking with several new alternative technologies being developed in Britain.

The Zigo Leader combines the functionality of a carrier bicycle, bicycle trailer, jogging stroller, conventional stroller, and bicycle in one brilliant system.