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The Toyota FT-Se Concept Probably Isn’t the Next MR2

The Truth About Cars

The Toyota FT-Se Concept that debuted at the Japan Mobility Show recently probably isn’t going to be the MR2 successor everyone has been hoping it would be. Still, it’s always smart to remain cautious when dealing with concept vehicles. An argument could be made that electrification could be used to help keep the car cheap to operate.

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Cheap, Easy, and Underutilized Online Communication for Nonprofits

Green Car Congress

At the presentation of the concept in Germany earlier this year, VW had said the EV would launch on the market in 2013. The concept car’s 30 battery modules—comprising 180 lithium-ion cells—were installed in spaces adapted to the vehicle architecture: in the floor of the trunk (fully usable cargo capacity: 275 liters, 9.7

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Mercedes-AMG teases first look at its sporty electric supercar poised to rival Porsche, Lucid

Baua Electric

The concept is based on axial-flux motor tech developed by Mercedes-owned Yasa. Mercedes-AMG electric supercar testing in Sweden (Source: Mercedes-Benz) You can see from the official images from Mercedes that the electric supercar’s design draws from the Vision AMG concept , revealed in 2022. performance platform.

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Polestar 6 revealed, Australian orders open for new EV roadster

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Essentially a production version of the Polestar O 2 concept , the sleek two-door folding hard-top convertible will sit at the top of the expanding Polestar range when it hits the market in 2026. And the sixth model from Polestar – effectively an EV spin-off of Volvo – will not be cheap. Polestar 6 electric roadster.

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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

Cars That Think

That’s when SSPD-1, a solar space-power demonstrator satellite carrying a bevy of new technologies designed at the California Institute of Technology, blasted into low Earth orbit for a year-long mission. That’s one of the reasons we’ve pulled away from that approach and moved toward a flat design. And yet the dream lives on.

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Video Friday: Robots as Musical Instruments

Cars That Think

ESA ] Building a 159-kilogram (350-pound) autonomous robot designed to go to very dark and tough places takes a while, even in time lapse. WVUIRL ] Kawasaki Robotics' Astorino is a six-axis robot arm designed for education. Its structure is 3D printed and easy to repair, and it's supposedly cheap, although I don't know how cheap.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Tesla Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck The top of the pile when it comes to attention, the Cybertruck just about broke the internet when Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen broke two of its windows during the global unveil late in 2019. Both were way-off concept cars but show the brand is serious (eventually) about protecting its ute patch.

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