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Lotus is betting its future on the electric sports car, can it deliver?

Baua Electric

The brand plans to be fully electric by the end of 2027, meaning the current Emira will be Lotus’ last gas engine product, full stop. The Evija is a handmade EV hypercar that makes nearly 2000 horsepower. For example, a new Porsche 911 S comes in slightly over that 1500 kg mark. And it’s still declaring ICE dead.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

“Palmer worked at General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division back then, while Stan Skokan, our treasurer, was the engineer at Hewlett-Packard (HP) who measured BIll Hewlett’s shirt pocket to make sure their calculator would fit.” “So So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued.

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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N: road and track review of a Kia EV6 GT and Tesla Model 3 Performance killer

EV Central

Much has been achieved through fakery – ‘petrol’ engine note and gear shifts included – but there’s been no reason to hide this. It’s a huge challenge to create a performance EV to tug at the heart strings of enthusiast drivers, but through incredible tech and engineering Hyundai’s cracked it.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

then based in Mountain View, he realized that silicon technology had advanced to the point that, with careful engineering, a complete central processor could fit on a chip. Early Neural Networks Hoff liked the engineering courses at Rensselaer, but not the narrow focus of the college itself. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Switching power supplies are the type used to power virtually all personal computers, mobile devices, and appliances that run on DC. This similarity means that there’s little learning curve for engineers making the switch to SiC. Compared to GaN, SiC has other advantages. But GaN Is Gaining GaN brings its own unique advantages.

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