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Personal: My Ongoing EV Adventure

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The market has grown tremendously over the last decade and a half, so today there is a range of choices, and it will just get better with time. Learning to live with an EV Fidelio was super cute in his light blue paint with white trim, and he sported a bright white interior with orange and black accents and a retro styled dash and trim.

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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs

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That left Honda severely behind in the global race toward long-range electric vehicles that Tesla kicked off in 2012 with its Model S. Since then, in North America, Honda has sold two pure EVs in tiny numbers: the 2013-2014 Honda Fit EV (82 miles of EPA range) and the 2017-2019 Honda Clarity Electric midsize sedan (89 miles of range).

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: electric Microbus finally arrives

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The Buzz retails at $61,500 to $71,500, with EPA-rated combined ranges of 234 miles in base rear-wheel-drive form or 231 miles with optional 4Motion all-wheel drive. Iconic shape, two-tone telltale The ID.Buzz still gets as many glances, photos, and questions from bystanders as it did when production was announced in August 2017.

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2026 Porsche Cayenne EV previewed: Record breaking hill climb run underlines luxury SUV’s performance potential!

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For reference, that’s four seconds swifter than the 2017 record set by a Bentley Bentayga Speed, and even quicker than the Porsche Taycan Turbo Sport Turismo EV (31.43sec). Engineers weren’t overly concerned about maximising range as the record-setting Cayenne EV wore a big roof rack that probably added plenty of wind resistance.

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Superconducting Motor Could Propel Electric Aircraft

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Among that latter group of startups is Hinetics , formed in 2017 to commercialize research led by Kiruba Haran at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. One of the challenges, Haran says, was finding a cryocooler small and light enough to spin at high rates and keep functioning while doing so. Haran figures it’s not necessary.

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These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors

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Their epidermal electronics embed state-of-the-art silicon chips, sensors, light-emitting diodes, antennas, and transducers into thin epidermal patches, which are designed to monitor a variety of health factors. When Akinwande and Lu created the first GETs in 2017, I had just finished my Ph.D.

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How U.S. Airports Like Pittsburgh’s Generate Electricity On Site to Avoid Heathrow-Like Outages

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Many airports have backup generators to help them maintain critical functions like air traffic control and lighting during power outages. That level of energy independence is rare, especially among larger airports. But those standard emergency measures have limitations. Commerce Department.

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