Cars That Think
APRIL 9, 2025
For decades, nuclear fusion the reaction that powers the sunhas been the ultimate energy dream. Fusion requires temperatures hotter than the suns core and a mastery of plasmathe superheated gas in which atoms that have been stripped of their electrons collide, their nuclei fusing. But the challenge is huge.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants.
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Cars That Think
JUNE 26, 2025
One is the availability, at relatively moderate cost, of copper-oxide-based superconducting tape, which is being produced by a few companies for startups working on tokamak fusion reactors. HTS [high temperature superconductors] are having a moment, because the costs are coming down rapidly, driven by all the work on fusion,” Haran says. “A
Get Electric Vehicle
JULY 4, 2025
Enter geofencing—a powerful location-based technology that is redefining the concept of vehicle protection, especially for EVs. Enhanced Sensor Fusion Combining geofencing with other sensors (lidar, radar, cameras) will create a multi-layered protection system that’s harder to bypass.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 14, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. —Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works’ Revolutionary Technology Programs.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 21, 2023
Fusion Fuel has been awarded €3.6 Fusion Fuel had previously been awarded €36 million in C-5 funding for its “Sines Green Hydrogen Valley Alliance” consortium. Fusion Fuel’s scope for the project—green hydrogen production and compression to 40 bar—is expected to require approximately €7.2 Earlier post.)
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