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The BYD Atto 3 and MG4 are great, but there is one cheap Chinese electric vehicle that’s not quite there yet…. Opinion

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There was a time when brave car companies, and Saab in particular, thought it would be amusing to build cars with silly amounts of torque and then attempt to put it through the front wheels alone. It would be fair to mention at this point that the GWM Ora is cheap, very cheap, just about the cheapest EV money can buy.

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Two Companies Working Towards Full-Scale Liberty Lifter X-Plane

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DARPA is of course well known for having lots of crazy ideas, only some of which ever come to fruition. But excitingly, two major aerospace companies have now signed on with their own designs for Liberty Lifter , meaning that a new full-scale X-Plane may actually happen in the near future.

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Report: Future BMW I3 Will Be Less Weird Than Original

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But the model fell short in terms of range and luxury, especially in relation to MSRP, resulting in a de facto city car for those who liked the idea of owning a BMW-badged EV. However, Weber believes it will also help the company build a mainstream version of what the i3 was supposed to be.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based based startup began toying with the idea. But then a company hit on the idea to use it as a spacecraft propellant.

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We’re the New Renewables

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JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. Much effort was devoted to making lighting, heating, and cooling more efficient so buildings consumed less energy. This WindBox turbine, installed on the roof of a building in Rouen, France, is 1.6 household).

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

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Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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The Scranton team competed against other student branches to build and program small robots to navigate a maze in the shortest time possible. If we can make them cheap enough, we could get ham radio operators to set them up and increase data points.” “I The idea behind HamSCI is getting citizens involved in science,” Piccini says.

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