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Tesla Taiwan owners seek investigation over alleged battery issues

Teslarati

Tesla owners in Taiwan turned to the country’s Consumer Foundation for alleged issues with their electric vehicles’ batteries. As per the Foundation’s investigation, most owners reporting battery issues own Model X or Model S vehicles manufactured from late 2018 to 2019. .

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Electron sandwich doubles thermoelectric performance

Green Car Congress

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have more than doubled the ability of a material to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly narrowing the space through which spread electrons move, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Sure, China’s Hypersonic Weapons May Have Incited a “Sputnik Moment”

Cars That Think

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech in 2018 that was accompanied by an animated impression of how a hypersonic missile would look like on its way to North America. has armed itself according to an outspend-our-rivals mindset at least since Grant prevailed over Lee in 1865. Expect yet more funding for U.S.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

Cars That Think

In 2018, NASA launched a satellite with laser imaging technology to monitor changes in Earth’s surface—notably changes in the patterns on the ocean’s surface; the satellite cost more than $1 billion. Lidar has better range and. Lidar is also prohibitively expensive , especially when operated in space. Pacific submarines.