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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
Electric cars are the gold standard for green automakers, but a car is only as eco-friendly as its source of fuel. That's why the World Solar Challenge -- an annual competition to design the most practical solar-powered car -- is such a big deal. This year's winner was the Stella, a four-seat family vehicle created by the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven, which produces so much energy it can actually feed power back into the grid. Ever wish you could cruise around town in a Batman-style motorcycle? If you happen to have an extra $27,500 kicking around, this awesome all-electric Batpod motorcycle could be yours. The Silicon Valley town of Palo Alto set a new high bar for building codes this fall, requiring all new-construction homes to come wired for electric car chargers. The code is relatively inexpensive, costing builders just $200 extra. And electric car chargers don't have to look ugly and take up lots of space: The company HEVO Power has designed a new type of induction charging unit that blends into its surroundings by disguising itself as a manhole cover. And Inhabitat had the pleasure of test driving BMW's new 328d clean diesel, which can go 675 miles on a single tank of gas.
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