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Airless tires look like the future for robotaxis, EVs, and more

Baua Electric

Although the tires weigh slightly more than standard air-filled tires, vehicles don’t need to be equipped with spares, jacks, repair kits, or tire-pressure sensors. It’s also hoping to revive the popularity of retreads with a reboot of the tech for trucks, allowing up to five retreads while reusing the tires’ carbon-intensive structure.

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This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans

Cars That Think

The following year, the company moved to the Vancouver Island Technology Park research and tech center. Her water expeditions throughout the world include five months during 2005 and 2006, when she and her husband rowed from Portugal to Costa Rica. The company began in the Anguses’ garage on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, in 2018.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

Cars That Think

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island. Clones,” Tan told the Straits Times in 2005, “in a sense, are marvelous.

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United Airlines pledges to reduce own emissions by 50% by 2050; Trans-Atlantic biofuel flight

Green Car Congress

United Airlines has become the first US airline to publicly commit to reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050, relative to 2005. The biojet fuel was made from Carinata seeds from Canadian agri-tech company Agrisoma and refined by World Energy’s Paramount facility. The pledge represents the equivalent of removing 4.5

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EnergyCS, March 2005 Greg Hanssen, Pete Nortman and team Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 3. EnergyCS/Clean-Tech, May 2005 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 4. Amberjac Projects Ltd UK, September 2005 EnergyCS, Amberjac Lincolnshire, England simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk Jim Tech Ltd.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This time it’s Obama’s brainless comments in which, within the very same paragraph, he both proclaimed that GM was behind in high tech green technologies which he foolishly proclaims the road to commercial salvation, and then blasts the Volt as a project incapable of saving GM.

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