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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

Cars That Think

Several recently published deep-dive analyses commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency have thrown cold water on the hope that space solar power could affordably generate many gigawatts of clean energy in the near future. And yet the dream lives on. The dream achieved a kind of lift-off in January 2023. But yours is at 10 GHz?

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Mazda Says Turbocharged Miata Best Left for Tuners

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The 26 horsepower [after 2019] was just what happens when you extend the power band up to that redline; it was never even mentioned in any of the planning or documents internally. There are cases to be made both for and against the concept that ought to be considered.& At the end, we all just said, 'Oh look.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Here’s our rough draft, which we’re releasing as we refine the concept—we moved up our plans when we learned about the Tuesday address. And oil only seems cheap. Before we go all in, we’ll start with a $100 million program that entrepreneurs call “proof of concept.” But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap.

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New EV electric car calendar

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ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Audi A6 e-Tron – concept car points to sleek large luxury sedan powered only by electricity. Chevrolet Equinox – affordable mid-sized SUV set to go EV in 2023. Soon, apparently.

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

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The EV newcomer is largely unheard of but arrived with an affordable bang in the form of the Atto 3. It’s the first ‘affordable’ EV that’s not felt heavily compromised or compromising. It’s not due to reach Australia until late 2023, but I drove it at its international media launch in Spain in early 2022.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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At the end of Tesla’s 2021 AI Day last August, Elon Musk introduced a concept for “Tesla Bot,” an electromechanically-actuated, autonomous bipedal “general purpose” humanoid robot. I think that it won’t look all that much like the concept images in this presentation. I think that it’ll be able to stand up, and perhaps walk.

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