The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Some thought the idea of a faux exhaust system, designed to help EVs mimic the howl of a V8, was a cringe-worthy gimmick. But others felt it broke new ground in terms of vehicular sound design and would ensure electric cars could retain some of the magic of combustion vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2009

ALTe’a electric drive system, designed to replace a base V-8 internal combustion engine powertrain, improves fuel economy from 80% to 200%. The idea of converting existing vehicles that had very low fuel economy with Range Extended Electric Powertrains is an advanced idea especially considering the patents that come with it.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles, scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a molecular assembly line for predictable, high-precision nano-construction. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge. Nature Materials , doi: 10.1038/nmat2421.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2023

But these engineers and programmers largely shared the same point of view. The computer, and the office, of the future Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” billion U.S. market in 1972— about $12 billion in today’s dollars.

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Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

So our idea is to integrate this flexible, thin film into any device and allow it to be self-powered, allowing for increased functionality in the device. So we’re enabling this sort of jump in functionality without compromising design, battery, sustainability, all of that. How do you design a machine for something that doesn’t exist?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Aircraft are currently required to use their main propulsion jet engines in a highly inefficient manner for slow speed ground movements; the consequence is greater local air and noise pollution, as well as wasted fuel and hence increased carbon emissions.

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