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"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off

Cars That Think

A lithium cell can provide about 4 volts, but piezoelectric actuators for microbots need tens to hundreds of volts, explains Mercier. Researchers, including Merciers own group, have developed circuits such as boost converters to pump up the voltage. On its circuit board are a dozen or so of the solid-state microbatteries.

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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

Charged EVs

Tom McCalmont: PairTree is the product we’ve been selling for about a year, which is a pop-up solar canopy that can be a fully off-grid power source, or can be grid-connected. We have a relationship with EV Connect, and with LITEON, so we can use standard commercial chargers in addition to our own. How much solar do you need?

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Road Test: 2025 Maserati GranCabrio Folgare EV

Clean Fleet Report

Designed at Maserati headquarters in Modena, Italy, and built at the Maserati Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, the GranCabrio Folgare is on the exclusive list of convertible electric cars that deliver performance in style, grace and elan. The Italian touch Convertibles can suffer from wind buffeting and noise with the top lowered.

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ZF Developing Novel EV Range Extender, Production Starts Next Year

The Truth About Cars

While this is a reductive description, we can think about EV range extenders as a sort-of oversized alternator thats connected to an engine that's exists exclusively to keep the device spun up so it can, in turn, convert liquid fuel into electricity. They leverage combustion power by supplementing the battery via an onboard generator.

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REE Automotive’s modular REEcorners enable an unprecedented amount of flexibility in EV design

Charged EVs

REEs platform includes both electrical and mechanical connection points to make it easy for upfitters to create an endless variety of vocational vehicles. We have a steering actuator, which operates on a 48-volt system, which controls the steering, so you get steering on all four corners, both front and rear, which is another benefit.

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We’re Charging Our Cars Wrong

Cars That Think

The function of the port is to convert AC power from the grid into DC, which is then applied to the battery. Grounding is exactly what it sounds like: a direct physical connection to the earth that provides a path for electric current. The transformers that connect directly to low-frequency utility power are heavy and bulky.

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Electric-car charging: The basics

Baua Electric

Whether you plug into it via a mobile connector or a wallbox, the actual charger that communicates with the battery and converts that AC current to DC (direct current) and is within the vehicle. kw (120 volts x 12 amps and well get to why its 12A a bit later). Figuring in a reasonable 10% losses, youre only putting about 1.3