Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.

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Fusion Power Powered Low Cost 150

Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

The challenge—in which 3,800 teams from 100 countries participated—was to “design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles [32 kilometers] while carrying a single person.” And physics says that you need more power per unit weight to lift an aircraft like that.”

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Kansas Fusion Universal Personal 82

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

The Ford Lightweight Concept reduces the weight of a 2013 Fusion to that of a Ford Fiesta, resulting in a nearly 25% weight reduction. Matt Zaluzec, Ford technical leader, Global Materials and Manufacturing Research, was the use of technologies that are targeting the use of mixed materials and that are available today.

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Concept Carbon Fiber Vehicles Ford 284

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Since Power = Current x Voltage you can put the same amount of power through a conductor at a lower current with a higher voltage. This is important since the power dissipated by a wire is Current^2 x Resistance a lower current means less power lost on the lines and more efficiency for a high power load such as a car.

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Recharge Plug Electric Vehicles 2009 75