The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Is a blue-smoke blowing 2009 BMW 535i xDrive Touring Wagon a good idea? The Speed Academy guys shake down this old Bimmer, and the answer may be to simply add M parts, which is never a bad idea. This long roof is dressed in M Sport trim and draws power from the 3.0L inline N54. It looks sharp and it has some grunt.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 1, 2024

It’s pretty clear Asimov had no idea how a system like the Converter would actually work, except in the most basic terms. Harnessing the power of the sun in space is certainly an enticing idea. SpaceX Starship launches to loft all the assets necessary to build one 1.7-km-long But the station itself is worth a second look.

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InsideEVs

MAY 30, 2024

official has ideas on building our version of it. The sub-$10,000 BYD Seagull has made American automakers restless.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2024

You can think of OCT as similar to an ultrasound, in that it uses reflected energy to build up an image, but OCT uses light instead of sound for much higher resolution. I realized that what I had to do was build a piece of technology that could increase the productivity of dentists.” That’s where the OCT comes in.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

By building the system in-house, Volkswagen had more room to maneuver and improve quickly while working with sensitive data, says Frantisek Zapletal, who leads the Virtual Engineering Lab for Volkswagen Group of America. It’s really a communications platform, and people can use it to share ideas quickly. —Frantisek Zapletal.

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Electrek

JANUARY 22, 2024

Panasonic, makers of batteries for Tesla in the US, is delaying its plan to build a third battery plant in North America, according to Reuters.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2023

Unlike typical lab-scale demonstrations, it includes all auxiliary devices and components, so it gives us a better idea of the energy efficiency you can expect once you consider the complete system, and not just the device itself. This is the first system-level demonstration of solar hydrogen generation. Holmes-Gentle et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For the next nine weeks developers will have the opportunity to implement and submit their ideas. The competition gives contestants the chance to build and test their applications and services for Porsche sports cars using simulated connected car APIs. The aim was to design and develop apps to suit the sports car of the future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

set up to build infrastructure services focused on electrically powered vessels. This idea was originally proposed by e5 Lab and Asahi Tanker. The battery-powered vessel was designed by e5 Lab Inc., a consortium of leading Japanese shipping and maritime services companies, including Asahi Tanker Co.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 13, 2025

I dont have a problem with the idea that there are engineers who are 10 times as productive as other engineers. If you must 10x something, build 10x engineering teams. Anyone can build an org where the most experienced, brilliant engineers in the world can create products and make progress. It just feels true. Thats not hard.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For safe flight, future HTS aircraft will need to build in redundant systems to counter the possibility of quenching—the loss of magnetism when an HTS material’s temperature is raised. HTS materials offer high power density and high efficiency in a compact and lightweight package.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Therefore, we are already starting the international ramp-up of the hydrogen economy and building long-term value creation and supply chains through the H2Global instrument. —Robert Habeck, Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

We have a shared vision of how people, goods and ideas will be transported in the future, as well as the safety and regulatory ecosystem that will underpin that transportation. headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

The developments are part of the H2Mare initiative which is a lighthouse project likely to be supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ideas competition "Hydrogen Republic of Germany". Currently 80 million tons of hydrogen are produced each year and production is expected to increase by about 20 million tons by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

A new process developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP is able to isolate almost all of this ash—allowing both the carbon black and the minerals from the ash to be reused. Over the longer term, the idea is to make the transition from a batch process to a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

The Wilson Center was chartered by Congress in 1968 as the official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, and is a non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community.). MOBI, which closed the largest seed round for a startup in Bolivia at $1.38

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

By focusing on energy-related advanced manufacturing technologies, we are building a new era of manufacturing that will stimulate the economy, create jobs and build American energy independence. It also seeks new ideas on process intensification to reduce overall heating energy. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2025

The guys from Speed Academy take a swing at a 2020 Toyota Supra A90 build thats practical and performance enhancing. This is Part 1 of a two-part build series where we focus on a cat-back exhaust, a cold air intake and carbon fiber aero upgrades. In Part 2 , well complete the build and reveal it to Vin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The key idea behind the technology, described in a recent article in Applied Physics Letters , is to use terahertz radiation to boost particle energies. One major challenge to building these tiny cavity structures is to machine them very precisely. Inset: Scanning electron microscope image of a section of the cavity, which is 3.5

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2025

I think we'll literally build a legion of robots this year, and maybe 10 legions next year? But I think we will literally build a legion, at least one legion of robots this year, and then probably 10 legions next year. That's a scary thought, a legion of robots. Like a whole legion of robots, Ill be like whoa. Units of legion.

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Cars That Think

MAY 29, 2024

The stand-alone communicator [bottom of illustration] can be ordered assembled, or you can build your own from open-source design files. I turned to my next test idea—exchanging real-time data and commands via the network. Will makers building applications on top of Meshtastic lead to the mesh renaissance I’ve been waiting for?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2021

RWE will develop, build and operate the wind park. The potential offshore sites for this project are ones that are currently only planned for the period after 2030 according to Germany’s Site Development Plan and Network Development Plan. BASF will own a stake.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just days after Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares divulged the automotive conglomerate was mulling building electric vehicles for joint venture partner Leapmotor in Europe, the always interesting Tavares spoke further, sharing an openness to also assemble the Chinese EVs in North America, most likely the US, if necessary. Here’s the latest.

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Teslarati

MAY 14, 2025

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently responded positively to a rather underrated business idea for the Cybercab and Optimus. If one were to look at Teslas plans for the Cybercab and Optimus, after all, the idea of dual use robotaxis seems very feasible.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2025

And given the ongoing controversy about assisted communication, we wanted a system that could build the skills needed to type independently. We drew inspiration from those efforts as we took on the new idea of using AR to help nonspeaking autistic people communicate.

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Teslarati

MAY 29, 2025

Tesla still on track to release more affordable models in 1H25 It also plays into the idea that Tesla is planning to launch vehicles very similar to the Model Y and Model 3. Tesla would not reduce its size this much for the Performance configuration. With that, it seems more likely it is one of the affordable models.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2025

Thats when she met a couple of academics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, who had a novel idea for an exoskeleton. Associate professor Siamak Arzanpour and his colleague Edward Park wanted to draw on cutting-edge robotics to build a self-balancing device.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2024

Honda on Friday revealed a hydrogen fuel-cell semi in concept form, as it builds out the idea and looks for commercial vehicle partners. The concept truck, due to debut Monday at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) expo for fleet vehicles, signals “the start of a new demonstration project,” according to Honda.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

In the paper, the PsiQuantum team assessed how existing ideas in quantum algorithms can be implemented in, and optimized for, fault tolerant hardware—a critical and difficult step needed to have any idea about how difficult the algorithms will be to run.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

HMGICs will occupy a footprint of 44,000 m 2 with the building area of 28,000 m 2. The lab will explore business ideas and technologies to revolutionize a value chain encompassing R&D, business and production for future mobility solutions. Construction will begin in May with completion expected in second half of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2020

. … The present work complements our earlier study, in which the conceptual idea of cell separation was proposed and demonstrated in a purely electrolytic setup, demonstrating a benchtop-scale separate-cell tandem PEC-PV device for decoupled photoelectrochemical water splitting in separate oxygen and hydrogen cells.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones. Now, after countless versions of wiring things together, and even designing my own audio mixers, I finally have a DIY solution that works within a reasonable budget.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2023

Managed by Argonne National Laboratory and sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors, and MathWorks, the EcoCAR EV Challenge is a cross-disciplinary competition among 15 North American universities designed to build an EV talent pipeline through cutting edge automotive engineering education and practical application.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2022

There is practically no way to build them taller, as they would be too unstable and economically too costly. The higher a wind turbine is installed, the more efficiently it will work, because the wind is much steadier and blows with greater force at altitude. For the start-up phase 2019-2022, funds of at least €151 million were budgeted.

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Teslarati

MAY 15, 2025

This is the safest, fastest, and least expensive architecture to build tunnels,” TBC clarified. TBC’s Las Vegas Convention Center tunnel network showcases Musk’s idea of 3D road designs and how fast it can transport people. The Tesla Cybercab would significantly impact the functionality of TBC’s tunnels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into a copper matrix to improve conductivity and mechanical performance is not a new idea. The work builds on a rich history of superconductivity research at ORNL, which has produced superior materials to conduct electricity with low resistance. —Li et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

At the moment, the Caucasus nations dont produce enough renewable electricity to export it, so they would have to build at least three times more capacity. Site manager Kamil Manafov works from a control room that still smells like new building materials, where large wall-mounted screens display the plants minute-by-minute performance.

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