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Sumitomo Rubber and Sumitomo Electric to join Sumitomo Riko, LanzaTech project

Green Car Congress

Sumitomo Rubber along with Sumitomo Electric will be taking part in this joint development. This will be achieved by gasifying the waste materials and purifying the resulting gas, and then putting them through a fermentation process that transforms the gas into new raw materials. Earlier post.)

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Are Installing EV Charging Stations at Hotels a Good Idea?

Charged Future

If you are a hotel owner, you may be wondering if EV charging stations at hotels are a good idea. Read More »

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Don’t Buy Another Gas Car! No Hybrids Either. It’s Got To Be Electric!

CleanTechnica EVs

Don’t buy another gas car! Some of you won’t let “them” pry a gas car from your cold dead fingers. However, many of the rest of us are open to the idea of […] Your current car is getting a bit long in tooth and it’s time when you would normally be looking to replace it.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

Cars That Think

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. HTS induction heaters promise to halve energy use, along with greenhouse gas emissions. The wire had become a “superconductor.”

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Mazda MX-30 electric car: Gas version shown before EV reaches target market

Green Car Reports

Electric vehicle enthusiasts prefer EVs that weren't designed to have full-sized gasoline powertrains.

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Two Oddball Ideas for a Megaqubit Quantum Computer

Cars That Think

HEMTs have a layered semiconductor structure that creates a super-narrow region of free electrons, called a two-dimensional electron gas. The KAIST and Swiss teams, reasoned that at cryogenic temperatures the 2D electron gas might carry signals with less resistance than metal. They settled on near terahertz radiation—specifically 0.26

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Polaris all-electric RANGER to have ‘dramatically higher’ power-to-weight ratio than gas UTVs

Electrek

The hype around the new electric Polaris RANGER is growing with each fresh look at the upcoming UTV. Now a new video is giving us a better idea of how well the vehicle works off-road, which is of course key to the utility of a UTV.