Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
A recent United Nations provision has banned the use of mercury in spacecraft propellant. 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 Mercury is a neurotoxin.
Electrek
JANUARY 14, 2023
This time that includes new electric bikes from the consumer electronics brand RCA, a new electric trike from Lectric eBikes, Honda revealed its E-Cub for the Chinese market, a high power hubless wheel electric motorcycle, low-cost electric boats with a Mercury electric outboard motor and lots more.
The Truth About Cars
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
liter engine, from the same family that powered the Mazda Miata and Mercury Capri. Cars of a few decades ago seem cheap by today's standards, but note that the automatic transmission and A/C—which come at no extra cost in nearly all the most miserable 2023 econoboxes—added the 2023 equivalent of $3,352 to the bottom-line cost of this car.
The Truth About Cars
AUGUST 28, 2023
The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s. That includes nearly two dozen 1964-1973 Ford Mustangs and Mercury Cougars , plus some fascinating European machinery.
The Truth About Cars
DECEMBER 28, 2023
As I write this, I’m sipping my third cup of Kroger-branded “Breakfast Blend” coffee, brewed via a cheap Mr. Coffee maker. I kinda dig the full-width front lightbar - someone in Hyundai’s design department truly loved the Mercury Sable, I’m sure, and adapted their work to the modern LED age.
Setec Powerr
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are green, non-toxic, non-polluting, raw materials from a wide range of sources, and cheap. No toxic and harmful heavy metal elements and substances such as lead, mercury, and cadmium are produced in production, use, and disposal. Lithium iron phosphate batteries have a large capacity.
Cars That Think
APRIL 2, 2022
You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. It’s only sand.”
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