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Ford, Jose Cuervo team up to make car parts with bioplastic reinforced with blue agave fibers

Green Car Congress

Success in developing a sustainable composite could reduce vehicle weight and lower energy consumption, while paring the use of petrochemicals and the impact of vehicle production on the environment. Once harvested, the heart of the plant is roasted, before grinding and extracting its juices for distillation. 13 mm wide.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With Octopus Go we receive low cost power between 00:30 and 04:30 every day. The goal of our Solar project was to charge the car and fill the battery storage at the low cost and power the house on batteries until the solar was generating enough to power the house and then replenish the battery power with excess solar energy.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

Cars That Think

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila! ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila!

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

Cars That Think

Constant Gardener ] via [ RobotStart ] Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. It's been a hectic couple of days, so here are some retired industrial robots quietly drawing lines in sand. ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila! ANYbotics ] Thanks Cheila!