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Tech: Don’t Believe These 5 Plug-In Hybrid Myths!

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In fact, places like California, according to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), are already promoting PHEVs as part of its drive to have only zero-emission new vehicles (ZEVs) on sale by the year 2035. Road Test: BMW Middle Road PHEVs The post Tech: Don’t Believe These 5 Plug-In Hybrid Myths!

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VW Commercial Vehicles unveils e-BULLI; electric T1

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The combination of the high-end classic and high-tech electric vehicle will be available to buy for real. As the basis for the future e-BULLI the team chose a T1 Samba Bus produced in Hannover in 1966, which prior to its conversion spent half a century on the roads of California.

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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

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That SuperBike topped every internal combustion engine motorcycle en route to a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb win in 2013, on the Colorado gantlet that’s among the world’s highest-profile tech challenges for cars and motorcycles alike. If we’re doing 300 amps at 400 volts, that’s a (peak) 120-kilowatt charging rate,” Hatfield said. “If

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The New, New Transistor

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Alan Doolittle , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech. It’s the energy, in electron volts, needed for an electron in the semiconductor lattice to jump from the valence band to the conduction band, where it is free to move around in the lattice and conduct electricity. electron volts; for GaN it’s 3.40

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Tesla Cybertruck spotted near BMW’s Munich R&D center

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Now that the Cybertruck is out, sightings aren’t all that uncommon, especially in California and Texas where most of the vehicles are being delivered. But despite their lack of pickup trucks, BMW is probably still interested in seeing some of the new technologies that Tesla is working with in the Cybertruck.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Wei Gao/Caltech California Institute of Technology’s Wei Gao developed a self-powering “electronic skin.”

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J. USB ports, 12-volt and 110-volt outlets are sprinkled through the cabin and cargo bed, topped with a power tonneau cover to keep cargo safe. Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38.

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