Plugs and Cars

MAY 19, 2007

Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. Simply put, as the first sentence of the article states, [W]hen consumers understand what plug-in hybrids are, they want them. Wonder why?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Powered by Share » Digg this Add to del.icio.us Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 24, 2022

Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top].

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. His battery-powered robots were models to test his theory that a minimum number of brain cells can control complex behavior and choice. Grey Walter.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere: in smartphones, laptops, electric vehicles, and even in your wristwatch. The next frontier, they say, is the solid-state battery — and perhaps 3D-printed ones, at that. Lithium-ion batteries, by contrast, use organic liquids as electrolytes, which heightens the risk of batteries catching on fire.)

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. The concept of windows had originated in Sketchpad, an interactive graphics program developed by Ivan Sutherland at MIT in the early 1960s; the Evans & Sutherland Corp.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

"Were encouraged by the improvements in the technology represented by hybrid batteries today," Savagian says. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. Marketwatch ). Detroit News ).

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

BMW’s Mini brand will go all-electric by 2030, report says – BMW’s Mini brand will go all-electric from 2030 as the automaker intensifies its transition to battery-powered vehicles, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

that car was missing precisely what the Volt (and any other would-be electric car under consideration today) is missing -- an appropriate battery technology that provides decent power within a decent weight and space constraint at anything approaching a decent price. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies. Interesting in any case.

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