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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Ignoring the “burning fuel” option as anathema to the objectives of a magazine about EVs, the remaining two options—a resistive heating element and a heat pump—are both used in EVs. If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

It is often better to fly in lifesaving supplies instead of loading trucks with supplies to bring them along roads that might not be passable anymore,” Fregene says. The practice led to internships at Los Alamos National Laboratory , in New Mexico, and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory , in Tennessee.

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