Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

First, in a highly-automated process, supplied lithium-ion cells, which are about the size of a paperback book, are checked and then combined into a larger unit, the battery module. The battery modules are then mounted together with the connections, control units and cooling units in an aluminium housing. Click to enlarge.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 11, 2021

They began a much sharper ascent in 2016; come 2020, 1.8 million EVs were registered in the United States, more than three times as many as in 2016. Well … Build it and They Will Come A survey in the U.K. President Biden’s “ Build Back Better Agenda ” aims to have electric vehicles representing 50 percent of car sales by 2030.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 24, 2023

Brunasso has said that her favorite—and what she thinks is the coolest—project was leading the team responsible for winning the contract to build the Ka-Band radar antenna used to land the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars. Her focus is on keeping passengers, flight crews, and militaries safe, connected, and informed.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And, as the economist Bharat Anand points out in his celebrated 2016 book The Content Trap , proprietary complements tend to be more profitable than non-proprietary ones. In 1969, Busicom, a Japanese company, approached Intel about building custom chips for use in its programmable computers.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. It connected to your phone.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2023

I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and today I’m talking with a former Spectrum editor, Sally Adee, about her new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome. The first time it was committed to print is a 2016 paper by this guy called Arnold De Loof , a researcher out in Europe. Sally, welcome to the show.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In 2016, a mild winter in Anchorage forced organizers of the Iditarod, the world’s most famous dog-sled race, to rely on snow brought in by train. The town of about 2,400 is home to Canada’s first gambling hall, museums and other colorful buildings — many of them tilting ominously as the permafrost thaws under their foundations.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 31, 2021

Inside the disk are wires connecting a contact on one side of the disk to a different one on the other side. The disk is connected electrically to a typewriter-like keyboard. Replacement parts don't exist, so I had to build such parts myself. For every rotor the pattern of these connections is unique. different ways.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With the e-tron services in the Audi connect portfolio, drivers can use their smartphones to control such functions as charging and heating or cooling. Audi connect, which is also standard, connects the Q7 e-tron quattro to the internet via the fast LTE standard. The driver can choose between four modes. “EV”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

We are suggesting that the variation in power and energy from renewable sources can be managed much more easily and economically with the batteries in PHEVs when they are plugged into the grid with a low power connection. We imagine you objecting: “Oh no, we’ll have to build lots more power plants!”

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The company builds its own battery packs, and has a current production capacity of 500 megawatt-hours per year. Charged : Tell us more about the components that you build in-house. We take cells, and then we do custom-developed battery modules of various shapes and sizes, and build those into various shapes and sizes of ESS.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Internet as a force multiplier of our preexisting tendency toward the fictional, and even the fanciful, is the essential thesis of Scheirer’s new book, A History of Fake Things on the Internet (Stanford Univ. I feel like there’s a human need to tell stories and we’ve been building new technologies to do that over time. Scheirer on.

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