The Truth About Cars
MAY 30, 2023
When the first Hyundai Excels appeared on American streets as 1986 models, bearing shockingly cheap price tags, did anyone imagine that someday there would be a big, ostentatious Hyundai luxury sedan with serious V8 power available here? Starting in the 2017 model year, the successor to the Equus became the Genesis G90.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
The new family of anode materials, which the researchers dubbed the Interdigitated Eutectic Alloy (IdEA) anode, also saves time and materials by producing an anode using only two simple steps instead of the multiple steps traditionally required to mass-produce lithium-ion battery anodes. —Karl Kreder. Kreder, III, Brian T. 7b00844.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap. And it’s pretty damn good.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 13, 2021
This marketing choice by Ford is either a very bad idea (brand dilution) or a genius plan to move the pony car into the modern era. GM’s signature EV now is the Chevrolet Bolt EV , another new name, which arrived as a 2017 model and promptly won Motor Trend ’s Car of the Year award. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
And if these robots aren’t enough for you, many of our picks from years past are still available: check out our guides from 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , and 2012. For a fully featured dynamic legged robot, it’s staggeringly cheap, just keep in mind that shipping is $1,000. Lego Robotics Kits. Amazon Astro.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2019
In the mid-1970s, scientists came up with the idea of freezing samples to preserve the natural structure of biological specimens and reduce damage from the electron beam, and cryo-EM was born. In 2017 three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their roles in developing cryo-EM. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8.
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