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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Utrecht, a largely bicycle-propelled city of 350,000 just south of Amsterdam, has become a proving ground for the bidirectional-charging techniques that have the rapt interest of automakers, engineers, city managers, and power utilities the world over. This is good for the grid. It’s yet to be shown clearly why that’s good for the driver.

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2022 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin Ultimate – Not Quite Fully Charged

The Truth About Cars

It’s already an EV, you’re not waiting for an internal-combustion engine to turn over and fire. To me, it felt like tech for the sake of tech – “Hey, we can do this, so we should, even if it’s not all that beneficial.” Again, the lack of connection from the steering wheel to the tire could be at issue here.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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While it would have been nice to engineer some sort of spring-driven mechanism to control how forcefully the motor pushes against the tire, I kept things simple: I just deflated the tire somewhat, bolted the motor solidly in place, and reinflated the tire. So I bought an outrunner. In that position, it's hardly visible. OK boomer," indeed.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

While it would have been nice to engineer some sort of spring-driven mechanism to control how forcefully the motor pushes against the tire, I kept things simple: I just deflated the tire somewhat, bolted the motor solidly in place, and reinflated the tire. So I bought an outrunner. In that position, it's hardly visible. OK boomer," indeed.

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Audi RS e-tron GT review: Driving the most powerful production Audi ever

EV Central

inch infotainment touchscreen are tech highlights. The latter includes embedded satellite-navigation and Audi connect online services such as traffic information, parking information and weather. As it fills, speeds drop, but it was still sucking up juice at a rate of 119kW when 78 per cent full when we stopped for quick boost.

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Visit to Cellestial E-Mobility : Electric Tractor startup

Plug In India

It uses an Ashok Leyland engine - which powers a hydraulic pack. The crane is powered by a 11 liter Volvo engine, which is imported from France. So we have a clutch that connects to a huge flywheel. The Cellestial team thinks that the battery has enough juice to do 1.5 The smallish tarmac tractor weighs 10 t.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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Researchers, engineers, and scientists were pushing this sort of proto–scanning technology forward and it really comes to a breakthrough, I think, with Ray Kurzweil in the 1970s when he invented the flatbed scanner and perfected this OCR technology that was nascent at the time. That was a V.” Some blind people read entire books that way.