While we may have to wait a little longer for fully automated flying cars, the future of automated vehicles is not far away. High end models of existing vehicles in the market, such as Tesla, already have adaptive cruise control features. This means the vehicles have autopilot hardware to drive by
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Maybe flow batteries aren't always everything they're cracked up to be. A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. Flow batteries use liquid electrolytes held externally in tanks and which
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Hertz announced that it will buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla, one of the largest purchases of battery-powered cars in history and the latest evidence of the nation's increasing commitment to EV technology. The news of the deal triggered a rally in Tesla's stock, driving the carmaker's market value over the
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Solid-state batteries promise to prove safer and longer lasting than conventional batteries. Now companies suggest they may commercialize solid-state batteries in the next five years for use in electric "hypercars" and power grids. Conventional batteries supply electricity via chemical reactions between two electrodes, the anode and cathode, which typically interact through
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Eco Bus maker and Power Gas have opened discussions to provide sufficient autogas filling stations in Nigerian cities where compressed natural gas-powered vehicles can be refueled. This is sequel to a recent introduction of eco-friendly vehicles into the Nigerian market by Austrian Technologies Nigeria, an initiative expected to reduce carbon emissions
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Today's world is one big maze, connected by layers of concrete and asphalt that afford us the luxury of navigation by vehicle. For many of our road-related advancements—GPS lets us fire fewer neurons thanks to map apps, cameras alert us to potentially costly scrapes and scratches, and electric autonomous cars
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The shortage of semiconductors for automotive applications is getting worse, says Semiconductor Intelligence, In recent statements from major automakers: General Motors significantly cut production at eight North American plants earlier this month due to the semiconductor shortage. GM expects North American vehicle production in the second half of the year will be
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Welcome to the planet's grandest high-stakes poker game, one where the players at the table are auto manufacturers frantically raising the ante in their financial commitments, betting tens of billions and their very survival on their electric vehicle development decisions. In early 2019, Reuters estimated that the top 29 global auto
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Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for their sluggishness in the cold, with consequences for some of their most important applications. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have shed light on how extreme cold can crack battery materials, degrading performance. Although lithium batteries can withstand the cold better
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"Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century," by Tim Higgins (Doubleday) Space exploration, solar power, electric cars—the fortune Elon Musk had made for his role in creating PayPal, the online payment system, gave him the money to plunge into those arenas. "Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and
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