Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech. clean-tech legislation. How did REPEAT come together? What about the pitfalls with energy modeling?

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Two Approaches for the Auto Enthusiast This article may contain affiliate links. Some folks swear by the sleek lines and cutting-edge tech of modern rides, while others are all about the nostalgia and charm of classic cars. Whether you’re a vintage enthusiast or a tech junkie, there’s something for everyone in the wide world of cars.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 21, 2021

Tech 4th year / M. Tech / MS / PhD or working professionals in EE, ECE, Mech, Engineering Design, Aerospace Engineering students interested in Electric Vehicles. a Solar and Wind energy in India: Economics of centralized generation. The course can be attended by the intended audience such as B. a Storage for EVs.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 12, 2023

In my very first article for Charged over 10 years ago, I opined that the Switched Reluctance Motor , or SRM, would eventually come to dominate the EV traction market, if for no other reason than the fact that it is almost as cheap as dirt to manufacture.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

This is because the phase windings have considerable inductance, so the voltage pulses will set up a (relatively) slowly changing current in them. This article appeared in Issue 59: Jan-Mar 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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. This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Building Boom.”. Combine all these factors and a dazzling possibility emerges.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But it was the KrakenSDR’s ability to do passive radar that really caught my eye as a new capability in lowish-cost radio tech , so I plonked down the money. This was in a bid to shield the antenna from the reference signal and myself from the wind. The next step was to get suitable antennas.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

Also in the past 15 years we have established a Global Tech Center for our R&D and software activities, which is testament to the talent available in Chennai. Valeo’s Chennai Plants utilize more than 90% of energy needs from wind energy. We further plan to expand our operations and R&D in the upcoming years.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ouyang Ziyuan , a cosmochemist and early driving force for Chinese lunar exploration, notes in a July talk the potential extraction of helium-3 , delivered to the lunar surface by unfiltered solar wind, for nuclear fusion (which would require major breakthroughs on Earth and in space). Sample-return tech from Chang'e-5 will next be used to.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm , consisting of 103 wind turbines on the main island of Shetland. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. This newer HVDC technology is opening up new opportunities.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees "Remarkable" Efficiency Jump Another big development in the energy sector is the return of the hydrogen economy. Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

This article is your lighthouse: it will give you some background on what bidirectional EV charging means and how it works. For instance, solar panels clearly capture the most energy during the day, wind turbines when it is windy, and so on. As the tech gets better with time, so will its potentialities.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Beyond the School, Modestino has been establishing connections with local green-tech industries. And the Initiative has brought in local entrepreneurs to teach Tandon students about how to create and support startups in the green tech space. “We

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Online discussions convinced me, however, that this is the expected behavior when commanding a motor to maintain a fixed amperage in its windings (thus applying constant torque) while under little load. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK

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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. This article appeared in Charged Issue 54 – March/April 2021 – Subscribe now.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I Now, as the company fades away, the future of high-tech vision implants seems blurrier than ever.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

The site in the Northeast of England was selected because of the abundance of renewable energy—it has access to the North Sea Interconnector, so the company can take hydropower-created electricity from Norway and feed wind power back. This article appeared in Issue 59: Jan-Mar 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

At the end of this article, Prof. By reducing wind resistance and weight, the company’s engineers effectively are reducing the amount of work an electric engine will have to perform to get the car up to driving speeds, which in turn conserves battery power.&#. by: Michael Kanellos. Bright is based around a parallel hybrid.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Online discussions convinced me, however, that this is the expected behavior when commanding a motor to maintain a fixed amperage in its windings (thus applying constant torque) while under little load. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 7, 2022

This eliminates the reactive current that would otherwise slosh back and forth between the inductance of the motor windings and the DC link capacitance, doing no useful work in the process, but still heating up the bridge switches and anti-parallel diodes. This article appeared in Issue 60: April-June 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, torque is proportional to magnetic flux intensity, which itself is proportional to the product of current and the number of turns in each armature winding, so doubling the number of turns cuts the required current to produce the same torque in half. Resistive losses aren’t just a problem at high torque (i.e.

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Charged EVs

MAY 2, 2024

solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines); 3) an appropriate DC-input charger for said source; and 4) a DC-to-AC inverter to power the house, EV charger, well pump, etc. This article first appeared in Issue 67: January-March 2024 – Subscribe now. from the battery.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2023

So when he called me on a Friday afternoon in the summer of 2021 to propose an article delving into the complexities of the global transition to electric vehicles, I knew that he’d do the research at a deeper level than any tech journalist, and that he’d explore angles that wouldn’t even occur to them. Take power-grid transformers.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This now leaves us with a mere 0.081° C / W of thermal resistance budget left over for the heatsink itself, and a quick perusal of the typical finned aluminum jobs available off the shelf—even when cooled by a gale-force wind—aren’t going to come within an order of magnitude of achieving that thermal resistance rating!

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

we have is the XZ+ Tech Lux variant. I'm not listening to any wind noise, there is a little bit of road noise but then it's so quiet inside. So don't don't listen to western articles and western videos talking about western electric cars where most of them use NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) batteries. all the way to Pune.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. Reflective wall art, mosaic ornaments, or a wind chime, perhaps? This is what a team of engineers and researchers are doing at Eden Tech, a company based in Paris, France, that specializes in the development of microfluidics technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The use of REEs in sustainable energy technologies such as wind turbines and electric vehicles has given rise to newspaper articles with titles like “Clean Energy’s Dirty Little Secret.” These articles describe appalling conditions under which rare earths are produced. A total of 93% of HF is emitted during acid roasting.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The island has 40,000 inhabitants and an energy infrastructure characterised by a large proportion of wind energy. Within the project, researchers from IBM Denmark and from IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory will develop smart technologies that synchronise the charging of the electric vehicles with the availability of wind in the grid.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In their Gigafactories, they use renewable energy sources like solar and wind to power their manufacturing facilities which in turn reduces the carbon footprint associated with production. Some notable examples of sustainability initiatives are Tesla’s Gigafactories.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In a conventional liquid-cooled traction motor, two approaches are typically utilized—a water jacket integrated into the motor housing, which cools the iron stator and fluid across the copper winding end-turns. Charged : One of the failure points of a standard motor is that the insulation and the windings will break down.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Whether this is just another case of specmanship or something more noteworthy is the subject of this article, but regardless, it also suggests that silicon carbide (SiC) technology is rapidly being adopted by the EV OEMs. the windings) and iron (i.e. This article appeared in Charged Issue 53 – January/February 2021 – Subscribe now.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

The increase in funding for tough tech startups, which enabled Mattershift to spend 5 years of intense R&D developing its technology. Using our tech, I think we’ll be able to produce carbon-zero gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that are cheaper than fossil fuels. —Mattershift Founder and CEO, Dr. Rob McGinnis. Source: Mattershift.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the previous article , we looked at the various losses incurred on the AC side of the circuit while charging an EV’s battery (from the breaker in the load center to the EVSE inlet on the EV), as well as things that could be done to minimize them, either by the OEM, the electrical contractor or the EV owner.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 12, 2023

Neither will this review, which will be in two parts - today’s article will be a review of the Model 3 itself, and a subsequent article will detail my “EV experience” that came with this vehicle. *Ed. But Tesla’s self-driving tech is a work in progress, at best, and the worst-case scenarios range from hilarious to tragic.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

One of the most insidious is that leakage inductance—which arises from the less-than-perfect coupling between windings in a transformer—opposes each change in voltage by creating a small spike and by looking like a high impedance. This article appeared in Charged Issue 52 – November/December 2020 – Subscribe now.

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Plug In India

APRIL 14, 2021

When you start an electric scooter, you can listen to the wind and birds! So battery tech is evolving and your electric scooter will continue to keep evolving and getting better. You can save huge money as shown in our money saver comparison article and video You can charge your EV's battery at home or work. It is terrible.

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Plug In India

JANUARY 15, 2022

Madan is very tech savvy - and actually founded a telemedicine company about a decade ago. For me it turned out to be a good tech demonstrator for what makes BYD the king of Chinese roads. Wind Sailing at Mysuru! Vikram mentioned that the speed of the boat is a max of 70% of the wind speed.

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