Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jiangnan Shipyard, owned by China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), has ordered an LPG (liquefied propane gas)-burning MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP engine in connection with the building of an 86,000-m 3 VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier) for Tianjin Southwest Maritime (TSM), the Chinese shipping company. HFO-burning engines to 6G60ME-C9.5-LGIP

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

How President Obama Can Announce Drive Star to Cut Oil Use in Half by 2020. And oil only seems cheap. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. We just had to do it.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? In 2020 the world’s hydro stations produced 75 percent more electricity than wind and solar combined and accounted for 16 percent of all global generation. Construction of large dams began before World War II.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The method’s byproducts include the building blocks for synthesizing methane, ethanol and other carbon-based compounds used in industrial processing. In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. —Renu Sharma. Canhui Wang, Wei-Chang D.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Founded in late 2020, Varda Space says its mission “is to build the first space factory” – or, to be more precise, the first all-in-one space factory. ‘zero-G’). What Varda Space wants to do, then, is repeat – and, nominally, expand that ISS-proven model.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2022

UC Berkeley ] After analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists have learned something astonishing: The spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away immediately after it grabbed dust and rock from the asteroid’s surface.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2023

SpaceX has begun building a backup launch pad for its Cargo and Crew Dragon spacecraft and says the facility could be ready for use as early as fall 2023. Richard Angle) SpaceX’s answer to the problem was about as simple, elegant, and cheap as possible. Reuters first revealed those plans in June 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Thanks to this home energy storage partnership with Powervault, Renault is adding a new element into its global strategy for second life batteries, which already covers a large number of usages from industrial to residential building and districts. —Nicolas Schottey, Program Director, EV batteries and infrastructures at Renault.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

The existing standard solution is to build EV charging stations to solve the range problem of electric vehicles. Building charging stations is a massive investment project, and the long waiting time for EV charging and the slow return on revenue is equally complex problems for operators. APP + EV + Mobile EV charging station.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New-build solar project costs are expected to fall by another 20% by 2030 due to lower module prices and an oversupply from China. In contrast with falling renewables costs, coal and gas generation expenses have increased by 12% since 2020 and are projected to rise through 2050, primarily due to carbon pricing mechanisms.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

Aside from a flashy, December 2020 re-christening ceremony in which Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos named the vessel Jacklyn after his late mother, the private aerospace company left the ship largely untouched in a Florida port. Further, SpaceX has only lost one booster to waves, and it solved that problem by developing a relatively cheap robot.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

a provider of energy intelligence software (EIS), will collaborate with Tesla on the deployment and management of energy storage systems in commercial and industrial buildings. Cheap cells made in the Gigafactory are only part of the puzzle. billion in revenues in 2020. EnerNOC, Inc., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. Each EyeQ chip features heterogeneous, fully programmable accelerators, with each accelerator type optimized for its own family of algorithms.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. And we can expect large Na-Ion gigafactories only in the mid 2020’s.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is. It won’t work.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. OpenAI certainly needed [cloud computing time] to build these models because they’re enormously expensive in terms of the computing needed.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

Dan O’Dowd: In late 2020, they [Tesla Motors] created a beta site, took 100 Tesla fans and said, try it out. People build a safety-critical system, then they put a cheap commercial software product in the middle of it. We caught up with O’Dowd in mid-June, when he was preparing for the live stream. What’s next?

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Since 2020 Toyota and mining giant BHP have been testing a LandCruiser 70-Series converted to electricity by Tembo e-LV locally. The so-called H2X Warrego clearly won’t be cheap – about $190,000 – when a limited run of 250 vehicles is due in mid-2023. We’re watching on with interest.

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Qnovo

JULY 2, 2020

The battery has grown from nearly 1,500 mAh in early smartphone models (the original iPhone’s battery capacity was 1,400 mAh) to a whopping 5,000 mAh in 2020 models to accommodate 5G networks. These used cheap plastic lenses but corrected for their optical deficiencies using software.

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Cars That Think

MAY 22, 2024

Today, Erickson is the CEO of Houston-based Hylio , a company that builds crop-spraying drones for farmers. One lesson was the need to build in redundant pieces of key hardware, particularly the GPS unit. In 2020, Hylio opened a factory in Houston and started selling drones to American farmers. Don’t overengineer it.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. By 2020, when Frontex had gained a more independent legal status as an agency of the European Union, its budget had more than tripled to €450 million and was scheduled to climb another 20.6

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. 2020) [11]. Electrek [link] accessed 19/5/2020. CNET Roadshow [link] accessed 19/5/2020. link] accessed 14/6/2020. Hydrogen tank explosion kills 2 in Gangrening The Korean Times [link] accessed 14/6/2020. John Murray.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy reported that BYD received €220 million in 2020 to €2.1 Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports – made by cheap labor – entering the European Union.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Costanzo’s quest became abruptly more relevant in early 2020, when many patients with a new illness called COVID-19 realized they had lost their senses of smell and taste. Patients typically do best if they seek out medication and rehab within a few weeks of experiencing symptoms, before scar tissue builds up.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Under the central New Policies Scenario, automotive sales in non-OECD markets exceed those in the OECD by 2020, with the center of gravity of car manufacturing shifting to non-OECD countries before 2015. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

With the first deep learning we brought a system into the market in 2020 on the multipurpose camera three. You have said that it’s not very cheap to implement ADAS, especially in countries like India or developing countries like Brazil or South Africa. When did deep learning start? In 2014 or 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Their cathode design and electrolyte system allowed for continued movement of sodium ions, preventing inactive surface crystal build-up and allowing for unimpeded electricity generation. A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters. Junhua Song, Kuan Wang, Jianming Zheng, Mark H. 0c00700.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Nissan is bullish on plug-ins, which Ghosn predicts will account for 10% of cars sold by 2020. Despite a high upfront cost, operating an electric vehicle is cheap, costing 2.5 However, “we’re talking about heavy investment&# in cars, batteries and supporting technology, said Nissan Motor Co. starting next year.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., Nearly every one of these apartment buildings are without any on-site EV charging. One was affordability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Neil Adger and Jon Barnett lay out four “reasons for concern about adaptation” to climate change, to counter “what we perceive to be a widespread belief that adaptation will be smooth, cheap, and easy to implement.”. achieve a maximal average 2 ºC rise in worldwide temperatures, assuming peak years of 2011, 2015, and 2020.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

.​ ​ Bajaj Chetak Bajaj is the 2 wheeler giant of India and in 2020 they started selling electric scooters with the launch of the Chetak. The Chetak scooter has a huge emphasis on build quality. Many scooter companies provide a cheap GPS tracker and call themselves a connected scooter. One of the best in this list.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The upside is that a lot of work is being put into making these new satellite constellations more secure , even though it will likely take a lot of rethinking about how to design and build the thousands upon thousands of satellites that make up these growing networks. 5G Networks are Performing Worse. What’s Going On?

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Organizations around the world are already taking the first steps toward building a DNA drive that can both write and read DNA data.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Auerbach adds that due to economies of scale and over capacity in the industry “ wind energy should have a 20% reduction in equipment costs within the next year ” and he has seen realistic projections of “ solar, with a 10% tax credit, being competitive with baseline generation in 2020 ”. Cap and Trade Disappointment.

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Plug In India

AUGUST 21, 2022

Why scale up like OLA electric and let customers face issues with software, build quality, etc.? Back in 2020 when we visited the Chetak experience center at FC road in Pune , we were told that the swing arm motor and the battery pack were imported from Bosch. Or I can be cynical of this move. What do you guys think?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The First High-Yield, Sub-Penny Plastic Processors I’ve been listening to promises of cheap, flexible electronics my whole career. These 5 Charts Help Demystify the Global Chip Shortage The chip shortage that squeezed automakers and many others so hard in 2020 and 2021 was very much still with us in one form or another in 2022.

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