Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Paradox 1 - Soot: There's an apparent emissions paradox with plug-in hybrids (PHEV): Driving longer distances on battery power means more cold starts as the internal combustion engine (ICE) stops and starts up again after the batteries deplete. Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

One of the first people I met at the club was Bob Allen, an electronics engineer who had a machine shop in his garage and could make amazing mechanical things. Back then, my mechanical engineering skills were severely lacking. Back then, my mechanical engineering skills were severely lacking.

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Rhode Island Google 2002 San Jose 99

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. A normally functioning pancreas recognizes the incoming sugar rush and secretes insulin to allow the body's cells to absorb it so that it can be used as energy or stored for such use later on.

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Personal 2008 Commercial Virginia 144