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Clean Fleet Report
JANUARY 30, 2022
The holy grail of battery development really hasn’t changed much in spite of the exponential growth of the electric vehicle market–make it more energy dense (for longer range), more powerful (for faster acceleration), faster charging and cheaper. Ford and BMW have invested in the solid state battery start-up Solid Power.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down.
Cars That Think
APRIL 24, 2022
teams beefed up their communications with everything from a straightforward tethered Ethernet cable to battery-powered mesh network nodes that robots would drop like breadcrumbs as they went along, ideally just before they passed out of communication range. and Team CSIRO Data61—consisting of CSIRO’s Data61; Emesent; and Georgia Tech.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 29, 2021
That's another industry high. A factory tour underlines the company's relentless focus on miniaturization and in-house tech. The Silicon Valley-based company on Wednesday announced a "Dream Delivery Day" for Oct. Those battery cells are fixed with adhesive and cured for 26 minutes. ton luxury sedan?
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 22, 2009
Some immediately - such as the requirement for somewhere between 20-100,000 dollars in testing - but it’s the 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the batteries themselves that’s the dealbreaker. Air resources board employees say the new regulations are not designed to squelch technological breakthroughs or bankrupt new businesses.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen.
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