EV Central
AUGUST 11, 2023
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.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
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.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. During the 1990s, as the size of files and software increased, computer companies searched for alternatives. MB of data.
The Truth About Cars
OCTOBER 23, 2023
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.
Cars That Think
JULY 26, 2023
Unitree has just announced the Go2 , a new version that manages to both be significantly better and super- duper -cheap—it’s faster and more agile and now even includes a lidar, but somehow costs just $1,600. There’s even a graphical programming interface, if you have no idea what you’re doing but just want to mess around a little bit.
Cars That Think
JULY 31, 2023
When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company—he thought it might become a modeling and simulation company instead. You could talk about what you want to do, but people talk about all kinds of things that way—the future is so cheap, and so variable.
Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
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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