Cars That Think
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They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. Flexo, built in 2003. Then, I found some gyros at a surplus electronics warehouse—single axis piezoelectric devices originally made for camcorders and computer mice. It gives you the rate of rotational acceleration as the robot starts to fall.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.
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