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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

When regenerative braking is selected, when I take my foot off the accelerator, the motor acts as a brake to slow the vehicle down, converting kinetic energy into electrons which flow back into the battery. I love that my EV is so efficient: EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

Cars That Think

But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5 The deuterated erbium (chemical symbol ErD 3 ) is placed into thumb-size vials, as shown in this set of samples from a 20 June 2018 experiment. percent efficiency. And modern spacecraft need more power than an RTG of reasonable size can provide.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. This ain’t no milk truck In 1984, when John had become an automotive journalist, he had the opportunity to drive a VW Golf in the UK that had been converted to an electric powertrain. Even at that young age, John was impressed.

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