article thumbnail

Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

While a wireless charger saves you from having to connect and disconnect cables repeatedly, the distance over which energy can be delivered this way is quite short. This wouldn’t be such a silly connection to make. also for vehicles. But his dream of sending electric power over great distances without wires has persisted. At the U.S.

Power 145
article thumbnail

10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

IEEE Spectrum has a full write up on the kit , but since that article was written Hart has come out with a revised version that's even easier to connect to a modern PC, so you can download programs without needing to toggle them in bit by bit!

Kits 104
article thumbnail

We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. There is an aluminium bus bar for connecting the cells in series. There is a green light that lights up on a panel placed in front of the operator then the correct torque has been achieved. Since then he has stayed with the same battery.

Future 59
article thumbnail

Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? While utilities such as E.ON

Grid 47
article thumbnail

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Powered by Blogrunner Previous post The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. Not good for large EV’s but great for light ones. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc.

Oregon 58