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Airless tires look like the future for robotaxis, EVs, and more

Baua Electric

Michelin Uptis airless tires No flats, no blowouts, no pressure checks Michelin’s prototype airless tire line, Uptis (Unique Puncture-proof Tire System), may have been conceived to have less impact on the environment, but as the name origin suggests it has other big advantages.

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Audi offers two new 3-cylinder engines in refreshed A1: 1.0 TFSI and MDB 1.4 TDI diesel for A1 ultra

Green Car Congress

Unlike the predecessor engine used through 2005 in the Audi A2, the new 1.4 TDI has a lightweight crankcase made of an aluminum-silicon alloy—an exception in its competitive environment. Brand new is the active kit, which highlights the urban character of the Audi A1 distinctively. The stroke of 95.5 millimeters (3.8

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Mercedes-Benz S-Class INTELLIGENT DRIVE drives autonomously over 100km interurban and urban route with near-production technology

Green Car Congress

The required algorithms were developed by the Mercedes-Benz research team in collaboration with the Institute for Measuring and Control Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Another camera looks towards the back through the rear window to locate the vehicle with reference to known environment features. PROMETHEUS.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times. Clones,” Tan told the Straits Times in 2005, “in a sense, are marvelous. It wasn’t odd that the company wanted to jump into the MP3-player fray.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. Electric vehicles (EV) or (BEV) are a clean, quiet alternative to conventional automobiles, which are powered by petroleum derivatives that, when burned, emit noxious gases into the environment. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?"

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EnergyCS, March 2005 Greg Hanssen, Pete Nortman and team Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 3. EnergyCS/Clean-Tech, May 2005 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 4. Amberjac Projects Ltd UK, September 2005 EnergyCS, Amberjac Lincolnshire, England simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk Contact info: John Joyce.

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