Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This month we’re celebrating the launch of our second PDF collection of Hands On articles, which IEEE members can download from IEEE Spectrum ’s website and share with friends. Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018).

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 28, 2023

For a few years after the end of World War II, Detroit's automakers sold mildly facelifted prewar designs while they made the switch back to peacetime production. The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2016

Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption. —Jim Krane.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2023

His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. Intel helped cement the region as a global center for technological innovation, the article says. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 12, 2023

Actually, it’s a decent idea to kick this article off with a note about car washing techniques. The product is designed as a concentrate, which doesn’t mean it pays attention in math class. What this company saves in marketing and attractive bottle design they more than make up for in creating a good soap. But back to the soap.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The app leverages a feature of wireless networks called timing advance , which is designed to minimize uplink collisions between cellphones in motion and the base stations to which they are connecting. An advantage of using wireless networks to provide that warning is that cellphones are very cheap and now almost ubiquitous.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But the identical mounting components meant that rectangular designs were pretty much all that could be produced. Imagine using cheap wind- and solar-generated electricity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and turn it into feedstock for large-scale 3D printing of building components.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MARCH 23, 2007

The analog engineers at work are still designing the current/voltage limited step-down buck converter so that will be coming when I get their feedback. I'm going to try to replace the sychro rings myself based on the Pelican Parts article and, if I screw up, I'll take the whole thing back to A & P to put it back together.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

In Issue 49, we reviewed some of the more promising advancements in materials and construction techniques for EV traction motors , one of which—the axial flux design—will be the focus of this article. Magnax’s axial flux inrunner motor design.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 9, 2021

In this article, we are going to discuss another impressive aspect of electric vehicles that is ‘ The flexibility an electric vehicle offers in design ’ and one of its weird manifestation The ‘One wheeled electric bike’ by Chinese E-commerce giant Alibaba. The flexibility an EV offers while designing. The Design.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The biggest leap forward happened in 2012 when it was discovered that USB stick TV tuners using the RTL2832U demodulator chip could be tapped to make very cheap but effective SDR receivers. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 1, 2021

To pretend to have done a repair that never happened and accept a lower battery capacity caused by a cheap Porsche onboard charger without informing the customer would be misleading, to say the least. Not all customers with “Red” designations are informed that the cell module had been replaced on their Taycan, the whistleblower said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2009

Nature uses cheap and plentiful building blocks—iron, nickel and sulfur—to achieve the catalytic performance seen in rare and expensive metals. We cracked that design by generating mock-ups of the catalytic site to include the substrate hydrogen atom. Soc. , , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja902570u. Matthew Whaley, Thomas B.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. In 1910 GE changed its basic design to a round bulb, although still with the exhaust tip. In 1910, an article in.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We There is nothing special here!”

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2022

This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." The motor control module contained a linear control IC, an NPN motor drive transistor, and a discrete PNP dynamic braking transistor, and gave the designers little trouble. At the final count, some 400 transistors were used. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." Those lessons learned, his group turned to expanding Gaffney’s little interpreter into a full programming system for computer-aided design (CAD). but also C.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The design takes some cues from a battery previously developed by Wu and doctoral student Xiaodi Ren. The design won the $100,000 clean energy prize from the US Department of Energy in 2014, and the researchers formed a technology spinoff called KAir (potassium air) Energy Systems, LLC to develop it. Click to enlarge. —YiYing Wu.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors A Critical Component for Engine Efficiency This article may contain affiliate links. Replacements are easy and cheap to find, costing roughly the same or less than a related MAF sensor. MAP sensors are an older design, and are found mainly in aspirated engines.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their favor, however, is that these waveforms were derived empirically over time so they bear more than just a passing resemblance to real surges and transients encountered in the wild—a charger designed to comply with IEC 61000-4-5 will actually have a better chance of surviving long-term, theoretically. (So

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 14, 2023

A faulty thermal design battery will experience a temperature spike of 30°C above ambient. Short circuits occur for three reasons: Low cell quality Inadequate battery design (the way cells are connected & packaged) Poor BMS (Battery Management System) Now let us dive a bit deep into the above three.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

A number of articles about "green cars" worth perusing in Saturday's New York Times Automotive section. Usually devoted to crass boosterism of America's largest manufacturing industry, these articles still contain a lot of that. The meme of the ugly green car gets its own article ( Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash ).

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s even designed to accept aftermarket 37-inch tires without modification. The electric Hummer won’t come cheap; the starting price for the lowest-spec version announced so far—with fewer features and performance options, and only two motors—is about $80,000, and that one won’t be delivered until 2024.

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Noodoe

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The EV definitely serves best-in-design for Mattel! Cheap New Method Reuses EV Batteries. This is not the first and won’t be the last article we see on battery recycling. Mattel promoted a new toy Barbie car by stealing the runaway spotlight with a Fiat 500e mockup at the 2021 LA Auto Show. EV Investments and Innovation.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their favor, however, is that these waveforms were derived empirically over time so they bear more than just a passing resemblance to real surges and transients encountered in the wild—a charger designed to comply with IEC 61000-4-5 will actually have a better chance of surviving long-term, theoretically. (So

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EV Match

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this follow-up to our article covering commercial incentives from last month, we’ll explore some of the rebates that can help you bring EV charging home on the cheap. The unique rate schedule is designed for overnight charging, which can save homeowners money compared to a regular rate schedule.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

From a materials design point of view, the shell must be thin enough to be a good electron and Li + conductor, but also must be mechanically robust. The shell must also be fully closed, and there must be sufficient void spacing between the yolk and shell to support the volume expansion (again, around 96% for aluminum.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Volvo’s marketing stresses “designed for the city” and “engineered for urban driving,” and it would likely be a good choice for urban dwellers with easy overnight access to Level 2 charging. Volvo’s first EV.

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Cars That Think

JULY 27, 2023

The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Verge Motorcycles gained notoriety this year for the TRON-esque design of their motorcycle. The eye-catching “in-wheel-motor” that lacks a center axle or spokes even earned the bike several design awards. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 The article was countered the next day by an AOSIS statement that its proposed mitigation path would be expected to temporarily result in average temperatures of slightly more than 1.5

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. Until then, we'd been basing our designs on our existing capabilities—the tools in our workshop and the people on the project. to reach the designated patch of ocean in time for a 9 a.m. Spica rocket.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 30, 2024

As described in the accompanying Hands On article , this project is a digital clock that uses a high stability 10 Megahertz oscillator as its timing reference. The Nano offers far more processing power than is necessary for performing a simple hours-minutes-seconds type clock but is cheap and simple to use.

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