Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
A recent United Nations provision has banned the use of mercury in spacecraft propellant. Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based Mercury is a neurotoxin.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 15, 2024
The original Ford Taurus first appeared as a 1986 model , going through three generations and nearly 10 million sales (counting the Mercury Sable ) before getting the axe in October of 2006. That made 2007 the final model year for the "real" Taurus, and I've found one of these rare cars in a New Orleans self-service junkyard.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. For safe flight, future HTS aircraft will need to build in redundant systems to counter the possibility of quenching—the loss of magnetism when an HTS material’s temperature is raised.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 31, 2021
As countries invest in large-scale clean energy transition programs and begin to phase out internal combustion engines, securing the minerals required to build batteries for storing renewable energy and powering electric vehicles is increasingly critical. compared to its 2019 estimation. higher), cobalt (5.4% higher) and nickel (6.1%
EV Adoption
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
The company rebranded itself from Thor in 2019, builds electric trucks designed to replace equivalent diesel vans. 19, via Virginia Mercury. Long Road, Tough Choices Ahead for Biden Car-Charging Pledge – Biden has vowed to build 500,000 new charging stations across the nation by 2030, about 10 times what the U.S.
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