The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There's a lot of great vintage stuff at Colorado Auto & Parts right now. As has been the case with so many model names , the Fairlane designation began life as a trim level title for the full-sized Ford line. Concentrated Evil , a local grunge metal band, appears to have been active during the middle part of the decade.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

“We are creating a center of excellence in Michigan for electric transportation.Battery system design and development should be a core competency for Ford.”. —Bill Ford In addition, Ford said it is bringing battery system design and development in-house.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 18, 2023

The sleek and smooth nose has a light bar bookended by new headlamps (maybe Mercury was simply ahead of its time) and appropriately grumpy angles have been given to the bumper and intake areas. All the details are at that link but the TL;DR is that Hyundai bought back the car even though it was operating exactly as designed.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Modern laptops are notoriously difficult ( and sometimes impossible ) to repair, a problem Luna’s designers address by reducing the number of screws to four and avoiding permanent adhesives. It’s designed for on-demand production to reduce waste from unsold inventory. We want modular design.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 28, 2023

For a few years after the end of World War II, Detroit's automakers sold mildly facelifted prewar designs while they made the switch back to peacetime production. That includes nearly two dozen 1964-1973 Ford Mustangs and Mercury Cougars , plus some fascinating European machinery. Images: The author] Become a& TTAC insider.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 2, 2024

In warm to hot conditions, the compounds baked into the rubber of these tires do a great job of sticking to tarmac road surfaces – not to the extent of performance tires found on supercars of course but certainly better than a tire which is designed specifically for winter use.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

Ford Mustang, F-150, Focus, Flex, Escape, Expedition and Econoline as well as Mercury Mariner, Lincoln MKS and Navigator also use the sustainable material. The 2 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles on the road today with bio-foam seats equates to a reduction in petroleum oil usage of approximately 1.5 million pounds.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I kinda dig the full-width front lightbar - someone in Hyundai’s design department truly loved the Mercury Sable, I’m sure, and adapted their work to the modern LED age. Styling is exactly what you’d expect from the segment - mostly anonymous with a touch of the anodyne.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.

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Drive Electric

MAY 1, 2023

In the meantime, it makes sense for the government to make the design of the scheme fiscally neutral. “At At Drive Electric our mission is to support the uptake of e-mobility in New Zealand as part of our efforts to decarbonise transport.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Thus, the different leg parts will still execute the intended motion, but based on the center of mass and the measured rotation errors of the support foot, some leg parts are slowed down if needed. [ Our robot Digit works alongside us in spaces designed for people. ABB ] At Agility, we make robots that are made for work.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

In January 2010, EPA proposed strengthening the 8-hour primary ozone standard, designed to protect public health, to a level within the range of 0.060-0.070 parts per million (ppm). For a standard of 0.060 ppm, the value of benefits would range from $35 billion to $100 billion.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2022

Over the years, memory has been made up of vacuum tubes, glass tubes filled with mercury and, most recently, semiconductors. As part of his research, he traveled to Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., It took them six months, using surplus parts from WWII-era code-breaking machines. And the Manchester Baby was born.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

A team at Ford Motor Company’s Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn conducted a detailed study of the effect of ethanol blend level in emissions, using a 2006 model Mercury Grand Marquis flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) operating on E0, E10, E20, E30, E40, E55, and E80 on a chassis dynamometer. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

He was part of a team there developing missile and rocket systems, including the Atlas missile, which was used in Friendship 7. Holt supplied calibration and measurement systems used for NASA 's Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury programs, and the company's devices are still used today. It also was a leader in measurement instruments.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. They just wanted us for environmental work but they weren’t really sold on the hardware data destruction part of the work yet. Can you share some of those anecdotes?

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 21, 2023

As we learned in our last installment , when the Mark VIII debuted for 1993 it was (puzzlingly) in a single trim level, absent any designer name or sportier LSC. Recall the multiple delays that occurred in the FN-10’s original design finalization, which pushed back its debut three years.&

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Each state’s goal is different, because each state has a unique mix of emissions and power sources to plug in to each part of the formula. In 2020, EPA projects a 20% to 23% reduction of SO 2 ; 22% to 24% reduction of NO x ; and a 15% to 18% reduction of mercury, under the proposed Option 1 illustrative scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The six projects were initially selected for a first-phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4 Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The program is designed to provide an improved understanding of the long-term cumulative effects of oil sands development. The monitoring of the snowpack and acid sensitive lakes is designed to assess the linkages between atmospheric deposition and impacts on water quality. PAHs, mercury, arsenic, etc.).

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Spent lithium-ion batteries contain hazardous materials like lead, cadmium, and mercury, which, if not properly disposed of, can leach into soil and water, causing significant ecological harm. They replace worn-out parts, giving these batteries a new lease on life for various applications.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. “For a long time, electric vehicles have been like vaporware,&# said Flynn, an interior designer. But many feel the electric car’s time has arrived.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change. Designating Departments to serve as leads to oversee the annual creation of climate preparedness plans at home and abroad. Mitigation is needed to avoid a degree of climate change that would be unmanageable despite efforts to adapt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

TCEP will be an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) 400 MW power/poly-gen plant that will capture 90% of the carbon dioxide, 99% of the sulfur, more than 95% of the mercury, and eliminate more than 90% of the nitrogen oxides produced by the process. The H 2 -rich syngas stream will be split, with part used to produce.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design. —Hautier et al. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology. His parents—his father a businessman and newspaper correspondent, his mother a doctor—were comfortably well off. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. patent, two Iranian patents.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

NREL/NASA ISC design. Cell designers, battery developers, and researchers need these devices to be able to better understand the cell internal shorting phenomena and its implications on cell and battery design. Broadly, the ISC is fabricated into a target cell, then activated by melting the wax. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

The historical progression of wavelengths went from 365 nanometers, generated using a mercury lamp, to 248 nm, via a krypton-fluoride laser, in the late 1990s, and then to 193 nm, from an argon-fluoride laser, at the beginning of this century. As a consequence, the part of the mask imaged will be much smaller on the wafer.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted to make “the world’s best video game.” When the chip-development project started, the Commodore 64 was not at all what the designers had in mind. This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64."

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Honda’s “Green Path” approach, announced during a media tour of its operations in Ohio, seeks: To reduce or eliminate the use of substances of concern (SOCs) and scarce natural resources such as rhodium, palladium and platinum in the design and production of its vehicles. Design and production. SOCs are chemical (e.g., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target system (mercury), where neutrons are produced at by the collision of high-energy protons with the Hg target: 695 ns pulse with 60 Hz rep. Specs for the 1.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. The kit is designed so the batteries can be upgraded to lithium-phosphate.)

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Cars That Think

JULY 6, 2022

This was the mandate from NASA for designing and building the James Webb Space Telescope—at 6.5 The meticulous care NASA demanded of JWST’s designers is all the more a necessity because Webb is well out of reach of repair crews. Superficially, Webb follows the design of all large reflecting telescopes. Not so with the JWST.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Unless/until PV cells become more efficient, and are part of the original installation, they will seriously affect the cars aerodynamics and will be far less durable than metal. At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids. How about putting PV cells on the roof of a PHEV?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. San Jose Mercury News ).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Electrical loading optimization design. Click to enlarge.

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