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University of Michigan team wins 2016 solar car race

Green Car Reports

Other than charging a battery-electric car using electricity harvested by photovoltaic panels, solar power isn't exactly practical for current production cars. But every year, dozens of solar-powered race cars compete in events around the world held for college students. In the U.S., a team of students from the University of Michigan beat 23.

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SAE automation ratings: What does a driverless car actually mean?

Green Cars News

Forget the Focus RS or Mustang, the most important new car announced by Ford in 2016 is one that it’s yet to build. This is an autonomous vehicle that.

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TU Graz team uses monocrystalline Si as Li-ion anode; integrated micro batteries for on-board sensors

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Electrochemists at TU Graz have used single crystalline acceptor-doped Si—as ubiquitously used in the semiconductor industry—as anode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries. In an open access paper in the journal Scientific Reports , the team suggests that the use of such patterned monocrystalline Si (m-Si) anodes directly shaped out of the Si wafer is a highly attractive route to realize miniaturized, on-board fully integrated, power supplies for Si-based chips.

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