Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. The compressed air, now cool and easier to store, is housed in a large air tank.

Energy Storage 94

Energy Storage Energy Molten Salt Grid 94

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

In the journal Nature Materials , the team led by professor Keith Stevenson reports a new energy storage mechanism for pseudocapacitor electrodes that promises to boost the energy density and power density of pseudocapacitor devices. —Tyler Mefford, graduate student and lead author.

Energy Storage 231

Energy Storage Store Cheap Texas 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

—Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Because these “solid oxygen” cathodes are much lighter than conventional lithium-ion battery cathodes, the new design could store as much as double the amount of energy for a given cathode weight, the team says.

Cheap 150

Cheap Li-ion Batteries Battery 150

Baua Electric

JULY 3, 2023

The bogus fuels might be advanced and provided via Aramco, which might be a spouse with Renault Crew and Geely in a deliberate challenge to manufacture and manufacture internal-combustion engines known as Horse.

Fuel 52

Fuel Citroen Spain Cheap 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Quinones are naturally abundant, inexpensive, small organic molecules, and similar to molecules that store energy in plants and animals. The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable.

Low Cost 374

Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery 374

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

Singapore 143

Singapore 2000 Store IDEA 143

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Flywheel KERS has the potential for reducing fuel consumption by up to 20% while giving a four-cylinder engine acceleration like a six-cylinder unit, says Derek Crabb, Vice President VCC Powertrain Engineering. The combustion engine that drives the front wheels is switched off as soon as the braking begins. Flywheel module.

Volvo 301

Volvo Corporation Energy Cars 301

EV Central

OCTOBER 20, 2022

litre combustion petrol engine allied with twin electric motors, a 20kWh lithium-ion battery pack and all-wheel-drive. Our test Aspire scores 20-inch alloy wheels, LED headlights and DRLs, faux leather/suede upholstery, power driver’s seat, heated front seats, 9-inch infotainment screen, 12.3-inch Is it good value?

PHEV 98

PHEV Mitsubishi Plug-in SUV 98

EV Connect

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While battery life span varies by manufacturer and age, in general you can expect new batteries to rival and often exceed the longevity of drivetrain components on internal combustion engine (ICE) Vehicles. A lithium-ion battery’s high energy density means it produces more power for its size, making it ideal for an electric car.

Electric Cars 127

Electric Cars Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 127

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Professor Stuart James in Queen’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering patented a novel technique for the synthesis of MOFs without using any solvents, even water, and on greatly reduced timescales, by making use of mechanochemistry. The same gas supplies that power our central heating and gas ovens. —Prof.

Gas 218

Gas Commercial Ireland Production 218

Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around the world, with one of the most common secondary uses being watertight storage units. There are many ways to skin a cat, and even more ways to add solar power to a shipping container. To be fair, I cheated a bit.

Grid 52

Grid Solar Charging Florida 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. If placed in a container that has a barrier to separate the two sides, the two streams of bubbles can be collected and stored, and used later to deliver power: for example, by feeding them into a fuel cell that combines them once again into water while delivering an electric current.

MIT 278

MIT Water Solar Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. If the refuelling is to be done in a few minutes, this requires cooling to remove several hundred kilowatts of power. For most hydrogen storage materials this releases megajoules of energy.

Hydrogen 262

Hydrogen Commercial Transportation Polymer 262

Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

For SpaceX to design and build its own custom bulk commodity storage tanks instead of buying what is arguably a fairly routine and cheap off-the-shelf technology, Starship production has to be DIRT CHEAP. tall (90ft) Starship-derived tanks that should be capable of storing ~2200 tons (4.9

Building 125

Building Parts Cheap Texas 125

Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2024

Once powered by polluting combustion engines, these days, most golf carts use quiet and emissions-free electric motors, charging up their batteries for mere pennies and offering plenty of around-the-town range. Quiet operation Golf carts operate quietly compared to the louder engines of cars.

Golf Cart 52

Golf Cart Neighborhood Cars Pollution 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. by Henry Hewitt for Oilprice.com.

Solar 150

Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … The DBD reactor was connected to an AC high voltage power supply with a maximum peak voltage of 30 kV and a variable frequency of 7-12 kHz.

Conversion 186

Conversion Fuel CO2 Gas 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

Singapore 240

Singapore Grant Waste Cheap 240

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) is an end-to-end mapping and localization engine. Mobileye software running within the map-consuming agent (the autonomous vehicle) automatically localizes the vehicle within the Roadbook by real-time detection of all landmarks stored in it. The car is driving based on the map alone.

Motor 150

Motor Motors Motoring Vehicles 150

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

This story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Still, this story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Thereupon the typical PARC engineer would simplify the image.

Design 103

Design Engine Standards San Francisco 103

Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You recently wrote that there will be no viable robotics applications that will harness the serious power of GPTs in any meaningful way.

Personal 145

Personal San Francisco Cheap Companies 145

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 23, 2007

That is in part because producing the hydrogen needed to power the fuel-cell version could increase rather than decrease energy demand, and it may not make sense economically. Consumers will likely opt for the cheaper version, Romm notes.

Volt 100

Volt GM MIT Hydrogen 100

DIY Electric Car

MARCH 27, 2008

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. As the air expands in the engine it actually cools it, which can be used for passenger comfort.

Green Cars 100

Green Cars Green Parts Cars 100

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

liter 4-cylinder engine and optional all-wheel drive. It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. It senses the fob, and it powers up when the driver sits down. In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter

Recharge 77

Recharge Volvo New York City Gasoline-Electric 77

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., By using in-house integrated-circuit-fabrication facilities for prototyping, the engineers had cut the design time for each chip to less than nine months, and they had designed and built five prototype computers for the show in less than five weeks.

Engine 113

Engine Design Personal Production 113

Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As motor ratings increase, power drawn from batteries increases & for higher capacity batteries require for higher watt motors. Note:- Cycle range depends on battery capacity & kw of motor as battery capacity increases range also increase.Battery work as fuel tank & motor work as IC engine power. Controller.

Kits 52

Kits Conversion Batteries Battery 52

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

Hydrogen 52

Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion 52

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. But, as engineers, we are trained to ask if we can do better.

Personal 94

Personal Available Engine Store 94

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. Power to them for seeing it, understanding it, and being willing to be a first mover.

Fleet 52

Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Cars That Think

JUNE 14, 2022

For decades, hopeful techies have been promising a world where absolutely every object you encounter—bandages, bottles, bananas—will have some kind of smarts thanks to super-cheap programmable plastic processors. You might be wondering why silicon processors can’t do the job of super-cheap flexible computing. Why Not Silicon?

Illinois 118

Illinois Cheap Design Store 118

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8.

Carbon 220

Carbon Light CO2 Climate Change 220

EV Central

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Called MMA, for Mercedes-Benz Modular Architecture, it draws on innovative engineering ideas tried out in the Vision EQXX. “Ninety three percent of the energy stored in the (MMA) battery will actually arrive at the wheels,” Källenius went on. In summary, this is an engineering masterpiece.”

Mercedes 95

Mercedes Range Electric Cars Charging 95

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For stick-on displays , smart bandages , and cheap flexible plastic sensors to really take off, they'll need some way of storing data for the long-term that can be built on plastic. "In In the ecosystem of flexible electronics, having memory options is very important," says Stanford electrical engineering professor Eric Pop.

Store 76

Store Japan Cheap Power Storage 76

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But rather than giving into despair, some engineers, policymakers, and activists are pursuing a novel strategy. There is an exception to that in the category of what they call super pollutants, the very powerful but shorter-lived gases and chemicals that come from things like fertilizer production, methane. So that’s one class.

Climate 66

Climate IDEA Mariner Carbon 66

Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The YQi will feature a 150cc liquid-cooled gas engine as well as a 2400W mid-mounted electric motor. kW of power available to the YQi in total, it will be able to accelerate up to a top speed of 68 miles an hour. This totals to 5,184 Wh of stored energy. It features a 5 kW power hub motor, as well as two 72V 26Ah batteries.

Motorcycles 52

Motorcycles Electric Motorcycles Electric Electrical 52

Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

There were two Level 2 charging stations about six blocks away in a grocery store parking lot, but that was not a convenient or reliable option. One company, Atom Power, just might have the solution everyone is looking for. Even used gasoline-powered cars are averaging a monthly car payment of around $525.

Minneapolis 78

Minneapolis Installation Charging Building 78

Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

This can be an especially insidious issue for high-power devices like traction inverters and DC fast chargers—even if they were to achieve a near-mythical efficiency of 99%, that still means they would produce 1 kW of waste heat for every 100 kW of power handled, or about the same as a typical residential space heater.

Water 106

Water DC Golf Cart International 106