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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. Once the coil is charged, the energy can be stored nearly indefinitely with little to no decay, provided that the cooling is maintained. The wire had become a “superconductor.”

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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

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we San Jose Mercury News ). Bloomberg News ).

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