Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2023

He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. Mentoring the next generation of power engineers Born in the village of Wuxing in China, Chen and his family moved to Taiwan in 1949 when he was a teenager. It was later renamed the Energy Systems Research Center.

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Universal Texas Taiwan New York 93

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

million (US$4-million) distribution agreement to ensure modules from ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies, are part of its Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) for road freight. During braking, the unit becomes a generator, recovering kinetic energy that would otherwise be lost as heat and storing it in the ultra-capacitors.

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Manufacturer Iceland Turkey Taiwan 150

Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Gogoro will head off its South American operations by partnering with the Latin American energy company Copec to launch its battery-swapping network and Gogoro Smartscooters in Chile and Colombia. Starting in Taiwan, Gogoro has since expanded to China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, and The Philippines.

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America Colombia South America Chile 52

Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Greico, Stimson Center Back in 1981, Israel sent modest contraptions sporting surveillance cameras in its war against Syria, to some effect. Right now the militaries of the world are working on ways to shoot down small drones with directed-energy weapons based on lasers or microwaves. These things are all out there, on the open market.

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Ukraine Cheap Russia Taiwan 97