Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books.

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Design Engine Standards San Francisco 109

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

We have made this technology smaller, faster, and more robust for real-world use at a relatively low cost. Ranger images the unique “fingerprint” of road surfaces by matching thousands of distinguishing ground features, such as aggregate, cracks and road markings, to corresponding features collected and stored in a map.

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2016 Low Cost Store Kits 150

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. The initial production cost of the Commodore 64 was targeted at $130; it turned out to be $135. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! How did the Commodore engineers botch up the disk drive? The disk drive?

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Engine Design Personal Production 123

Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2022

If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

Engine 141

Engine Design Production Parts 141

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. The largest category: 39% want PHEVs.

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45