Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2022

Unlike Sox, our robot dogs are real and for sale! Georgia Tech ] NASA’s VIPER team practiced driving the rover down Griffin’s sizeable ramps to mimic safely egressing onto the lunar surface. The programmable robot dogs run on Arduino with the open source quadruped framework OpenCat. Petoi ] Thanks, Rongzhong! GRASP Lab ].

Georgia 136

Georgia Los Angeles DIY New Zealand 136

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Breaking News Feed Chryslers first EV will be the Dodge Circuit Vectrix in trouble, may be for sale REPORT: Toyota claims 40,000 pre-orders for new Prius Cadillac Converj reportedly approved for production *UPDATED New York 2009: Mitsubishi confirms i-MiEV will come to U.S. Follow us on Twitter!

Hybrid 30

Hybrid i-MiEV 2009 New York 30

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

I wish the thing was for sale as-is. Nokia cellphone batteries for example have been halved in size, which shows just how much better the tech is getting, without even getting into supercapacitors and alternate chemistry. But yes, there was no slalom to see how it handles the twisties.

Power 49

Power Powered Dodge Circuit Tesla 49

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The trouble is you then have to stop right away, which brings about some pretty strong regenerative braking action, something that Chrysler needs to work on before making the Circuit available for sale. Well need to spend some more time with the car to find out how it holds up over longer drives, but the powertrain tech obviously works.

Dodge Circuit 45

Dodge Circuit Dodge Electric Cars Chrysler 45