Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In Tokyo, the fires merged into a firestorm so intense that it created its own wind system and set alight the city’s many wooden buildings. Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock.

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Japan Mercury Syria Gas-Electric 124

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

renewable isobutanol-blended gasoline for engine testing. The US Coast Guard R&D Center is using the Gevo-blended fuel as part of a 12-month, long-term operational study on marine engines that began during June. Engines were run at full throttle for an 8-hour day for several months and then broken down and inspected.

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Mariner Gasoline Supplies Mercury 236

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 1931, Buick introduced the world to its first big sedan with an eight-cylinder engine (which wasn't a V8 but did have overhead valves ) driving the rear wheels. Twenty-nine years later, Buick ceased building new eight-cylinder/rear-wheel-drive sedans ( the 1987 Regal could be had with an optional Olds 307).

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Buick Mercury Chevrolet Colorado 98

Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. White served in the U.S. He joined the U.S.

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Power Powered Virginia Los Angeles 94

Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2022

Over the years, memory has been made up of vacuum tubes, glass tubes filled with mercury and, most recently, semiconductors. How Baby Came to Remember After World War II, research groups around the world began investigating ways to build computers that could perform multiple tasks from memory. And the Manchester Baby was born.

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Store Universal Mercury IDEA 103

The Truth About Cars

JULY 28, 2023

Arguably more bulbous, less cohesive, and with a trim design that highlighted the many instances where there was less than perfect build quality, the Mark VIII entered its final two years with a new look. This revised version was used on all 1998 cars and was shared by the likes of the Town Car, F-150, and Mercury Cougar.

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Parts Cars F-150 Mercury 97

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

million received a year ago from groups such as Google.org and DJF Mercury. is commercializing lithium-ion battery technology developed in Professor Arumugam Manthiram’s Material Science and Engineering lab at The University of Texas at Austin. This investment is combined with Series A funding of $5.8 Earlier post.) ActaCell, Inc.

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Li-ion Texas Austin EV1 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Brandt, in Energy Resources Engineering, led a national study last year on methane leaks in the US natural gas system. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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Gas Asia Mercury Chevron 150

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. Here are five emerging uses for HTS that could transform everyday life—if engineers can work out the kinks. The wire had become a “superconductor.”

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IDEA Wind Energy Storage Fusion 122

Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln.

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Commercial Vehicles GMC GM 137

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2010

It builds on the fuel efficiency “coaching” concept in the SmartGauge with EcoGuide cluster for the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and Mercury Milan Hybrid as well as the all-new 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. When Ford of Europe engineers tested the feature, they achieved up to a 15% improvement in fuel economy using the Eco-Route.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

As with any recommendation engine, Hohm will provide increasingly more accurate and relevant suggestions for energy conservation as its users contribute home energy input and feedback. Hohm is also intended to help utility companies manage the added demands of electric vehicles on the electric grid.

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EV Smart Ford Charging North America 210

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. That cold isn’t in the air around the building—the night is warm. It’s a summer night. Admittedly, this technology isn’t fully available just yet.

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Power Powered Solar Energy 136

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2009

. $800 million will be used to expand DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, which provides government co-financing for new coal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power plants. Geologic Sequestration Training and Research. $20

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Carbon Coal Mercury Arizona 150

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Flexiv ] A team of engineers has devised a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots. Riding on the success of MOLA, the Goddard team develops new lidar instruments for Earth, the Moon and Mercury. Flexiv’s Grav Enhanced gripper uses a gecko adhesive, which has historically been difficult to do in a commercial context.

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San Francisco Mercury Phoenix 2001 89

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. One of Porter’s jobs was to hand start the engine on cold winter mornings. Snow argued that the British educational system favored the humanities over science and engineering. The figurative lightbulb turned on.

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BBC London Light Mercury 97

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. The more solar plants these robots built, the more energy they would have to mine Mercury and produce machines.

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Mercury Solar Light Building 131

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., By using in-house integrated-circuit-fabrication facilities for prototyping, the engineers had cut the design time for each chip to less than nine months, and they had designed and built five prototype computers for the show in less than five weeks.

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Engine Design Personal Production 119

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2021

As countries invest in large-scale clean energy transition programs and begin to phase out internal combustion engines, securing the minerals required to build batteries for storing renewable energy and powering electric vehicles is increasingly critical.

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Nauru Waste Mercury Batteries 355

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

billion and has around 4,600 total staff, of which 3,000 are scientists and engineers. research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury.

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Transportation Clean Cleaning Li-ion 316

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride 41

Cars That Think

JULY 6, 2022

“Build something that will absolutely, positively work.” This was the mandate from NASA for designing and building the James Webb Space Telescope—at 6.5 Kahan—chief electro-optical systems engineer at Mountain View, Calif.–based I have spent my whole career building instruments for wavelengths of 5 ?

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Universal Light Building All-Electric 103

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

That figure does not include damages from climate change, harm to ecosystems, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security, which the report examines but does not monetize. The production of heat for buildings or industrial processes accounts for about 30% of American energy demand.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Daimler, parent of Mercedes-Benz, is apparently considering an early end to the combustion engine. The company rebranded itself from Thor in 2019, builds electric trucks designed to replace equivalent diesel vans. 19, via Virginia Mercury. 22, via GreenCarReports. Karma GS | Source: Karma. 19 via Electrive. But the U.S.

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Virginia Europe Karma Ford 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Environmental Effects and Benefits to top Wont all these cars require us to build even more power plants? A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant.

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