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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

Cars That Think

And we found it was in the right range of power levels we expected from an experiment like that. For example, the other designs I’ve seen would use microwaves in the Wi-Fi range, between 2 and 6 gigahertz, because cheap components are available for those frequencies. But we measured it. But yours is at 10 GHz?

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Dacia Manifesto Concept Is electric off-roader full of big ideas

Electric Cars Report

Although it does not prefigure an upcoming model, Manifesto is a lab for ideas with some of its innovative features available on future vehicles in the Dacia range. Manifesto explores a connection […] The post Dacia Manifesto Concept Is electric off-roader full of big ideas appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Tesla factors in important metric for more accurate driving range

Teslarati

Tesla is now factoring in what is a very important and crucial metric to give an increasingly accurate driving range: battery age. Driving range is one of the most important factors in electric vehicle ownership, along with price and charging infrastructure. Tesla is implementing the change in Software Version 2024.2.6,

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Tesla range adjustments trigger several changes to vehicles

Teslarati

Last week, Tesla made several adjustments to the range ratings of a few of the vehicles in its lineup, and now we are beginning to see some of the changes that are being made from a feature standpoint, as well as software. The range of an EV has been a hotly contested and polarizing issue for EV owners: How much is enough?

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Analysis: Range is a red herring and we don't need a 500-mile EV

Green Car Reports

Range is glamorous. The idea of a 400-, 500-, or 600-mile range in an electric vehicle appeals to the same side of the. And big batteries have a wow factor that appeals both to luxury shoppers expecting excess and to tech-savvy people for the mind-boggling amount of energy packed neatly under the floor.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

Cars That Think

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range.

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EV Range Anxiety Myth Explained

Electric Driver

When I started to look into buying an electric vehicle, I came across the concept of range anxiety in the press. Having a slightly anxious disposition, the idea of having to constantly worry if I would have enough of a battery charge concerned me. I bought an electric vehicle and learned that EV range anxiety […].

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