Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
A much better way to conserve battery power would be to use none of it at all until the system actually had important data to transmit. The system would remain in an ultralow-power sleep mode, or even an open-circuit mode, with no current flowing, until the sensor itself detected an important signal.
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines. Despite such skepticism, Washington is putting considerable money into the effort, including billions of dollars in loans to Ford, Nissan and Tesla Motors.
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