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Wheel-E Podcast: Honda E-cub moped, RCA e-bikes, cheap electric boats & more

Electrek

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.

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GM’s rosy year-end figures obscure the fact that legacy automakers are in deep trouble – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Hyundai/Kia and the Chinese certainly aren’t waiting. But in general, the traditional automakers are falling behind Tesla and China at an alarming rate (the Chinese may be coming for Tesla too ). And for China to dominate the next era of the global auto industry is bad news for non-Chinese working people—and arguably, for democracy.

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Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

Green Car Congress

As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants ever, the central Chinese government recently approved construction of nine large-scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually. These plants are coming online at a rapid pace. —Robert B.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

Cars That Think

In the second century CE, the Chinese scientist Zhang Heng developed an “earthquake weathercock.” Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

Cars That Think

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. PROJECT TO WATCH: Earlier this year, the Chinese company Lianovation installed the world’s first megawatt-level HTS induction heater at an industrial facility in northeastern China.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln. Buick, meanwhile, was vitally important for the Chinese market, where today more than four times as many Buicks are sold as in North America. The Task Force ultimately agreed.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

San Jose Mercury News ). Reuters ) 1/8/07 Indefatigable auto entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin, no longer planning to import Chinese-made cars to the U.S., If that target is met, the largest U.S. automaker expects to sell 1 million within five years to make the model profitable. Bloomberg News ). The truth is just the opposite.

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