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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

Baua Electric

She outlined a list of complaints: noise pollution (peaks of 87 decibels, well over the allowed 55, according to municipal limits ); streets so packed with revelers that it is hard to walk or even reach one’s front door; an exodus of fed-up locals that is changing the character of picturesque neighborhoods.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

Formula E , the FIA’s offshoot of the global spectacle that is Formula 1 , has gone from awkward baby steps to sprint-level speed in just eight years. Internal combustion is notoriously inefficient, turning at most 40 percent of burnt fossil-fuel energy into forward motion. That means efficiency rises by a factor of 10.

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