Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Their journey began with a question posed by its founders, Tommi Eronen and Markku Ylönen, when they were university classmates: “Is it possible to build an energy-self-sufficient and cost-effective hippie commune for engineers using only solar power?” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We Eronen says, laughing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new noble metal-free catalyst—Ni 5 P 4 (nickel-5 phosphide-4)—performing on par with platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both strong acid and base. —Professor Martha Greenblatt, co-corresponding author.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Apptronik , a Texas-based robotics company with its roots in the Human Centered Robotics Lab at University of Texas at Austin, has spent the last few years working towards a practical, general purpose humanoid robot. With your focus on making a system that’s affordable, how much are you relying on software to help you minimize hardware costs?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

Researchers at SLAC and their colleagues at Northwestern University and NIST have combined machine learning (ML) and high-throughput (HiTp) experiments to find a new system of metallic glasses in the Co-V-Zr ternary. In the metallic glass study, the research team investigated thousands of alloys that each contain three cheap, nontoxic metals.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2013

Researchers from South Korea, Case Western Reserve University and University of North Texas have synthesized new inexpensive and easily produced metal-free catalysts—edge-selectively halogenated graphene nanoplatelets (XGnPs)—that can perform better than platinum in oxygen-reduction reactions. —Jeon et al.

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2021

But the rationale is clear, says Kilian Weinberger, an associate professor at Cornell University who works on computer vision for autonomous vehicles. Cameras are dirt cheap compared to lidar,” he says. “By That’s controversial due to the lack of redundancy that comes with relying on a single sensor.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

One was affordability. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters. households.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured. We’ve also seen roadway fatalities climbing as they’ve gotten heavier as predicted by the University of Michigan College of Engineering study. Let’s take a trip back in time to see how this all started.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Or is it alive but too expensive and if so, what is the more affordable replacement? Energy Markets in a State of Change. Is tax equity dead?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, until mainstream public confidence reaches the point where the perceived combination of risks of a battery electric vehicle purchase (range, affordability, reliability and behavioral changes) match that of an ICE vehicle, then EV purchases are going to be the exception rather than the norm. How much range is enough?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. " BYD can afford to hire lots of them because their salaries are only about $600 to $700 a month; they also get subsidized housing in company-owned apartment complexes and low-cost meals in BYD canteens.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Potential applications include tackling fake profiles on social media, distributing a global universal basic income (UBI), and empowering new forms of digital democracy. The founders envisaged Worldcoin as a global distribution network for universal basic income. It’s really hard to revoke and reissue your iris.” –. Jon Callas.

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