Discover EV

JULY 16, 2025

RATING 4.5 / 5 PROS Extremely comfortable Strong acceleration Packed with tech CONS Difficult to park in standard space Sunlight can reflect off the rotary controller Pricey to buy and insure Overview The BMW i7 xDrive60 M Sport is the high-luxury, high-tech electric sibling to the combustion-powered 7 Series. Discover EV expert verdict.

BMW

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A fuel can is cheap, and you dont want to get stranded. If you have auxiliary lights, LEDs have the tendency to ice over quicker than hot halogens. Many manufacturers sell colored lenses for aftermarket lights. They also help protect aux lights from gravel chips and cracks. Dont be those people.

Kits

EV Central

MAY 31, 2025

Theres also the Ultra ($66,990 plus ORcs) that adds a panoramic sunroof, heated steering wheel, ventilated front seats, heated and ventilated outboard rear seats, ambient lighting, wireless phone charging, some real leather and a 10-speaker Infinity sound system. By EV standards its not very efficient. Performance is decent, though.

PHEV

EV Central

MARCH 21, 2025

The Formentor looks like a mildly jacked-up hot hatchback, and our Tribe Edition ups the flash with 19-inch black and copper alloys, LED lights all-round and a rear spoiler. There are paddles on the flat-bottom steering wheel to bring more engagement, but theyre small and feel a bit cheap. Even so, Cupras kinda confuse me.

PHEV

EV Central

MAY 9, 2025

Outside, there are new front and rear light bars, spanning the width of both the bonnet and the boot, as well as new headlights, a refreshed front bumper and a new look for the alloy wheels. A four-year/80,000km warranty is standard (among the shortest coverage periods in Australia), and servicing is on a as-required basis.

Chinese

EV Central

JUNE 14, 2025

READ MORE: 2025 Volvo EX30 Twin Performance Ultra Review: The fastest production Volvo ever comes with standard sincerity and a dash of devil Bones are good. But they’re not cheap. It’s a wonderfully light cabin with white leather upholstery and giant panoramic glass roof, and my first drive is 130km of motorway to get home.

Volvo

CN EV Post

JUNE 26, 2025

In fact, over NEW 200,000 YU7 customers from Xiaomi are perfectly content using standard fast-charging solutions. Regarding your comment on Xiaomi needing cheap production—I’d argue the opposite. Today, 99% of EVs in China are sold without battery swap capability, and nearly all of their owners don’t consider that a drawback.

Re-Charge

DIY Electric Car

JUNE 23, 2025

Advanced sealing solutions help, but they’re not cheap. Complex Engineering: Designers must find clever ways to keep the motor compact and light, or risk a clunky driving experience. Over time, that can wear down components and compromise in-wheel motor efficiency. ​ 3.

Motoring

EV Central

JUNE 13, 2025

Hyundai’s cheapest EV, the Inster , isn’t at cheap as some. Hyundai Inster Standard Range: priced from $39,900 plus on-road costs. That’s for the cheapest of the three variants: Standard Range, Extended Range and Inster Cross. That Standard Range gets a 42kWh battery for 327km of WLTP EV range.

Hyundai

Electrek

JULY 11, 2025

The CRU’s top speed remains at 25 mph, which keeps it street-legal under Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) regulations. The model also includes full lighting and turn signals, seat belts, a backup camera, and other safety features required for low-speed vehicles operating on public roads with posted speed limits up to 35 mph.

MPH

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a light-duty hybrid electric vehicle featuring a dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine. The team started with a standard 2.0L They stress that their solution may not be cheap, but it is comparatively cost-effective. Source: Ott et al. Click to enlarge.

Gas-Electric

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2016

Even with wide-ranging unpredictable gas prices, US automakers will remain profitable and suppliers will benefit under existing national fuel economy standards slated to be in place until 2025, according to a new economic analysis brief prepared by independent automotive industry analysts, commissioned by the nonprofit group Ceres.

Standards

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

Conversion

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

A recently completed European project coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) demonstrated the technical feasibility of a Bi 2 Te 3 -based thermoelectric generator (TEG) for waste heat recovery for application to a diesel light-duty truck (LDT). Sintering is a standard method for consolidating powders without melting them.

Waste

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Passenger light-duty vehicles (PLDVs) remain the single largest component of transport oil consumption, although shrinking from about 45% share today to 39% by 2035. Passenger light-duty vehicles. Click to enlarge. —WEO 2011.

Oil

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. The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen.

Miles

EV Central

JULY 30, 2024

The new lower pricing means that the Megane E-Tech is now roughly the same cost as the Hyundai Kona Electric Standard Range, MG 4 Essence 64kWh hatch and the entry-level Model Y RWD. The post Cheap as frites: Renault Megane E-Tech adopts cheaper pricing in bid to turnaround Aussie fortunes appeared first on EV Central.

Cheap

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

Platinum is the gold standard for electrocatalysis, combining low overpotential with high activity for the chemical reactions in water-splitting. In contrast, the principal metals in the new compound developed by the Brookhaven team are both abundant and cheap: $20 per kilogram for nickel and $32 per kilogram for molybdenum.

Low Cost

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2019

Scientists from the Russian National University of Science and Technology MISIS have doped aluminum melt with nickel and lanthanum to create a material combining benefits of both composite materials and standard alloys: flexibility, strength, lightness. A paper on their research is published in Materials Letters.

Automobile Industry

EV Central

JULY 15, 2024

READ MORE: Green light for electric cars! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes READ MORE: Toyota a winner as CO2 reduction plan goes lighter on SUVs and utes The Japanese car maker has joined Nissan’s calls to reform the current system in its entirety ahead of the upcoming 2025 New Vehicle Efficiency Standard ( NVES ).

Australia

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many existing devices in the laboratory use light to analyze blood sample. As light passes through a substance, its intensity changes depending on the concentration of the substance it is passing through. Light is then passed through the sample, and a Raspberry Pi computer analyzes the data.

Light

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly funding tests with live cellphones in light aircraft cockpits as a possible counter-measure to GPS spoofing attacks, Spectrum has learned. An advantage of using wireless networks to provide that warning is that cellphones are very cheap and now almost ubiquitous.

Virginia

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The series of tests, which occurred this summer in the skies over Virginia, used commercial smartphones connecting to standard 4G and 5G wireless networks operated by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC). You need to be warned if that GPS signal is leading you astray."

Virginia

Cars That Think

APRIL 18, 2022

IEEE Spectrum recently spoke with Jeffrey Shainline , a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., whose work may shine some light on this question. Shainline: First, you need to understand that light is going to be the best way that you can communicate between neurons in a spiking neural system.

Light

Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2025

But the lighting is always going to be a challenge, between bright sunlight, deep shadow, wave reflections, and occasionally murky water if the pool chemicals arent balanced very well. That makes relying on any light-based localization system iffy at best, and so Wybot has gone old school, with ultrasound.

Clean

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The overarching question was not whether the light-duty transportation sector would electrify to a significant degree, but when. The nightmare scenario Darbee has is that on a very hot day, after businesses have been running operations, lights and air conditioning all day, people go home, turn the AC on or up, and plug their car in.

Plug-in

Charged EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

Iconic design, two-tone paint, three rows, AWD; whatever you call it, the Buzz won’t be cheap. market only in a long-wheelbase version, VW of America having decided the standard European model was just too small. Three interior combinations are offered: dark brown and black, light grey and clay, and light brown and grey.

North America

The Truth About Cars

JULY 25, 2024

Its shape has matured and become more squared off over time, with updates to full LED lighting arrangements, bumpers, grille, and wheels to keep things fresh. There were only a couple areas of light orange peel, limited to the front fenders. Exterior door handles were not especially tight, and had a cheap plastic feeling.

BMW

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2022

This week, startup Metalenz announced that it has created a silicon chip that, paired with an image sensor, can distinguish objects by the way they polarize light. Robert Devlin: We use standard semiconductor lithography on 12-inch wafers to create nanostructures in the form of little pillars. Devlin : Our technology is flat, for one.

Light

Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Though this space is generous by most standards, it seems I always needed “just a bit" more. The bench lights are controlled using an Arduino Nano (far right)inserted into another custom board, the Grounduino (middle), which also provides a dedicated space for the recommended large capacitor when driving addressable LED strips.

DIY

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water. The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials. A paper describing the process is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Solar

The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect. Outside the LE there’s a constant reminder of base trim via some very cheap-looking plastic wheel covers. A backup camera is standard on all models and has decent clarity and grid lines to indicate how close objects are. cubic feet.

Toyota

The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been taking place over the last few decades.

Vehicles

Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Do keep in mind Sena products are not cheap. The standard Momentum cost $499, and the Momentum INC and INC Pro. It takes light from the back, bends it around the head and displays an image of the road behind the rider. This helmet is equipped with a series of lights that will keep you safe and predictable. Interested?

Motorcycles

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 11, 2023

Not necessarily in a bad way – nothing felt cheap. The standard-feature list is actually pretty comprehensive. Seventeen-inch wheels, LED lights all around, dual-zone climate control, keyless entry and starting, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and Bluetooth. It’s just that there’s not much extraneous fluff.

Fuel Economy

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 18, 2023

The steering is a mix of artificial lightness and appropriate weight. One thing that’s appealing about the Supra – and its nearest rival, the Nissan Z – is that while it’s not exactly cheap, it’s not crazy expensive, either. Supras, especially ones equipped with the six, are swift. The flaws remain, too. Entry and exit are awkward.

Toyota

Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2023

And they did, and it did a lot of really bad things; it ran red lights. O’Dowd: In March, in North Carolina, a self-driving Tesla blew past a school bus with its red lights flashing and hit a child in the road, just like we showed in our Super Bowl commercial. But rather than fix the problems, Tesla expanded the test to 1,000 people.

Tesla