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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Cars That Think

This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Eliza Dawson In 2018, IceSat-2 launched, heralding the end of Operation IceBridge. For the drone, we started with a kit for an X-UAV Talon radio-controlled plane, which included a foam fuselage, tail assembly, and wings.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Wireless charging is nothing new— Charged has covered wireless EV charging since at least 2011—but it may be that its true value is only coming into focus now, as more and more commercial and transit fleets are electrifying. metric tons [in battery weight] from a bus, we saved a fleet operator $24 million in energy costs.