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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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For decades, our vision of the future has been stuck in a 1960s-era dream of science fiction embodied by The Jetsons and space travel. In fact, what if our vision of that particular technologically advanced future is all wrong? This article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “Cozy Futurism.".

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

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This article is sponsored by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Chow and his colleagues addressed this problem by developing a look-ahead policy so that the model uses current data to anticipate where the future demand will be, taking into account the capacity at the different charging stations. Karl Philip Greenberg.

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The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling

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The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling Maximizing Value at the End of a Car’s Life This article may contain affiliate links. Electric vehicle battery recycling and advanced material recovery methods promise a brighter future, yet their widespread adoption remains a journey in the making.

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Electric vehicle misconceptions still run rampant, survey shows

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While this is a terrible idea, some EVs offer easy neighborhood mobility without needing a driver’s license. And while regen may help reduce the need for friction-based braking in the very near future, current cars are not there yet. What do you think of the article? Notably, the adorable Citroën Ami. Finally, 2.8%

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Tesla Not Disruptive, Future Is Tiny Electric 'Golf Carts': Harvard Scholar

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It's an article--actually a handful of articles--covering research by a scholar of "disruption" who argues that Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors isn't disruptive. Friday's the day we use for the stranger and more oddball stories in our lineup, and one of the more unusual we've seen in a while comes from Harvard University.

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Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

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& "The amount of graphite needed to feed those gigafactory beasts is in the neighborhood of a million tons per year, and the current capacity is zero in North America at commercial scale," John DeMaio, president of Graphex Group, a graphite processor with roots in Hong Kong, told Automotive News in the relevant report. Walking back U.S.

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Why Multi-Functional Robots Will Take Over Commercial Robotics

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Avidbots. The Future: Multi-Purpose Robots. For example, the price to rent a disinfection-only robot or a cleaning-only robot is in the neighborhood of US $2,000–3,000 per month per robot. The days of having single-purpose robots for specific tasks are behind us.