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. In 1855, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri created the first electromagnetic device that recorded the time of an earthquake and its movement.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The sensor equivalent of a sleeping dog is called an event-driven sensor. Using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, we can make such event-driven sensors on silicon chips that are only millimeters in size. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. The idea behind this motion event-triggered sensor isn't new.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory.
Cars That Think
JULY 6, 2022
Its mission is to study the infrared universe, and that requires shielding the telescope and its sensors from both the heat of sunlight and the infrared glow of Earth. Webb’s near-infrared sensors use mercury cadmium telluride photodetectors with a resolution of 2,048 x 2,048 pixels. Not so with the JWST. Detectors are another problem.
Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
The audiences universally want to know what they can do, given the unavailablility of plug-in cars on the market. A year ago Ford nabbed a significant endorsement from the Sierra Club for its limited edition Mercury Mariner hybrid (29/35 mpg - gasoline only) and a promise of 250,000 hybrids by 2010. see www.pluginamerica.com) 1.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2018
Working with University College London in the UK, we have been able to use synchrotron imaging to watch failures in real time which allows us to design solutions. KULR will begin shipping the ISC and ISC trigger cells in October, 2018. The ISC is a major step towards making battery technologies safer.
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 easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. Conversions are limited to certain vehicle types.
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