Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Their journey began with a question posed by its founders, Tommi Eronen and Markku Ylönen, when they were university classmates: “Is it possible to build an energy-self-sufficient and cost-effective hippie commune for engineers using only solar power?” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We Eronen says, laughing.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

” Musk pointed to data from the information service World of Statistics showing that the price of lithium hydroxide had risen to $78,032 per metric ton from $6,800 in 2019. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. Also sodium is universally available.

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Sodium Li-ion Batteries Battery 59

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Doctors at UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have developed a new method that uses three distinct, relatively new, technologies, whole genome sequencing surveillance, and machine learning, and electronic health records to identify undetected outbreaks and their transmission routes.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

Wading through the wealth of rental statistics from sources like the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and the Urban Institute , I discovered the full scope and complexity of the impediments involved. Atom Power says its smart circuit breaker will make charging electric cars as cheap and easy as using Wi-Fi. households.

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Minneapolis Installation Charging Building 88

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2022

Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts by the late 1930s, and nowhere more so than in New York. Excerpted from The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States by Brian Hochman , published by Harvard University Press (2022).

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