Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

A recent United Nations provision has banned the use of mercury in spacecraft propellant. Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based Mercury is a neurotoxin.

Mercury 101

Mercury Fusion United States IDEA 101

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. It refers to materials that superconduct above −195.79 °C, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. The wire had become a “superconductor.” High temperature” isn’t room temperature.

IDEA 123

IDEA Wind Energy Storage Fusion 123

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Likewise, a vehicle with a battery pack that happens to be near the upper range of its charge window (~70% to 80% for many hybrids) will also be limited in its ability to convert braking force to stored energy during a given braking event. Some early hybrid vehicles employed regen in tandem with a conventional hydraulic braking system.

Design 268

Design Hybrid Prius Toyota 268

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

In the NTSC standard, colors are determined by the phase difference between the color signal and a color reference signal transmitted at the beginning of each line.) Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. There are two basic modes in the Commodore 64: character-mapped and bit-mapped.

Engine 120

Engine Design Personal Production 120

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But when people talk about payback, they refer only to the net dollars to the driver. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. Please see our Plug-In Hybrids page Wheres the payback?

PHEV 37

PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we San Jose Mercury News ). Bloomberg News ).

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45