article thumbnail

The Boring Company’s updated projects page no longer lists D.C.-Baltimore tunnel

Teslarati

Baltimore tunnel and the Dugout Loop in Los Angeles. Baltimore project, a spokesperson from the Federal Highway Administration has stated that The Boring Company has not given the agency any indications that it intends to move forward with the project. Baltimore tunnel’s status as “In environmental review and permitting.”

Baltimore 144
article thumbnail

GM Investing $246M in Baltimore Transmission Plant for Electric Motors and Hybrid Components

Green Car Congress

General Motors will invest approximately $246 million in the Baltimore Transmission plant to construct a high volume electric drive manufacturing facility that will in 2013 produce US designed and manufactured global rear-drive electric motors, a core technology for hybrids and electric vehicles. Earlier post.)

Baltimore 186
article thumbnail

Scientists synthesize first functional designer chromosome in yeast

Green Car Congress

Jef Boeke, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics, has synthesized the first functional chromosome in yeast, an important step in the emerging field of synthetic biology—designing microorganisms to produce novel medicines, raw materials for food, and biofuels. —Annaluru et al.

Design 225
article thumbnail

DOE selects 15 projects for $32M to advance lower-cost fusion concepts; ARPA-E BETHE

Green Car Congress

University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will advance the performance of the centrifugal mirror (CM) fusion concept, which has previously demonstrated stable plasmas with temperatures above 100 eV. Advanced Inertial Fusion Energy Target Designs and Driver Development - $1,750,000.

Fusion 321
article thumbnail

High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

Cars That Think

Blind Industries and Services of Maryland , a not-for-profit organization in Baltimore that provides training and career resources to the state’s visually impaired. The students’ first attempt at an assistive device was a glove with a camera—which Choi says was unsuccessful because it was designed without input from potential users. “We

Baltimore 119
article thumbnail

The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves? As Verne understood, the U.S.

article thumbnail

Flash Drive: 2024 Hyundai Kona

Clean Fleet Report

Hyundai invited automotive journalists to Baltimore, Maryland, to drive the gasoline versions, which are in dealers now. EV Purpose-Designed Exterior Hyundai says the gasoline powered Kona has an “EV-centric exterior.” LED head, daytime running and tail lights finish the exterior lighting design. The naturally aspirated 2.0-liter

Hyundai 88