Articles Building Texas Wind 
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Energy-system models that marry engineering, physics, economics, and policy constraints and concerns allow us to test assumptions, explore actions, and build intuitions about how those systems work. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.” Back to top Until recently, energy modeling by the U.S.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2011
New research by a team from the US, China and Japan focusing on the Houston, Texas area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. Credit: UCAR. Click to enlarge. —Fei Chen.
Cars That Think
MARCH 26, 2022
Although the idea of replacing a hunk of iron with a lightweight, ultrathin, easy-to-make, long-lasting PCB was attractive from the outset, it didn’t gain widespread adoption in its earliest applications inside lawn equipment and wind turbines a little over a decade ago. But in 2012 Boulder Wind Power put a PCB stator in a.
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
SpaceX has rolled a strange, naked Starship prototype from its Starbase, Texas factory to a nearby test site. But SpaceX clearly intended to build Ship 26 and is now preparing to qualify it for flight. Both have had their payload bays permanently sealed, meaning that they are only useful as test articles.
Cars That Think
JULY 30, 2023
The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. No one at Asahi Chemical knew how to build production batteries at commercial scale, nor did the company own the coating or winding equipment needed to manufacture batteries. Still, there were problems.
Teslarati
APRIL 23, 2021
When CR first tested the Tesla Model 3, we complained about the ride, seat comfort, wind noise, controls, and brakes. Tesla is leading the pack by a wide margin, and the company is only accelerating, with more vehicles poised to be built in Gigafactory Berlin, Giga Shanghai’s expansion, and in Gigafactory Texas. No regrets.
Cars That Think
MARCH 6, 2024
It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.
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