Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. hoku earthquake , tsunami and nuclear power plant accident at Fukushima.

GM 89

GM Ford Power Powered 89

Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2022

And the recent revelation of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine have renewed calls to boycott Russian gas, an action European countries are struggling to figure out how to implement. Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature.

Gas 101

Gas Europe Ukraine Gas-Electric 101

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the skyrocketing fuel prices that ensued last year got me thinking about how to cut down on my consumption of gasoline. So I decided to revisit a project I first explored in 2009 , when I installed an Arduino-based fuel-economy computer dubbed “ MPGuino ” in the car that I was driving at the time.

Fuel Economy 138

Fuel Economy Economy Fuel MPG 138