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Electrostatic engineering gets the lead out for faster batteries
Conventional batteries are a lot like camels. They’re great for storage and transportation, but they’re not exactly speedy.
For technologies that require a fast discharge of energy, such as heart defibrillators, alternative materials are often used; foremost among them, antiferroelectrics.
There is only a handful of known antiferroelectric materials, and most of them contain lead, so they aren’t safe enough for everyday applications. Now, a Cornell-led collaboration has discovered a new approach for making a lead-free antiferroelectric that performs as well as its toxic relatives.
Yellowstone National Park Testing Out Driverless Shuttles This Summer
Autonomous, electric vehicles are driving around Yellowstone National Park in a new test program that could become a permanent mode of transportation.
Last week, the park debuted its new “TEDDY” program — or The Electronic Driverless Demonstration in Yellowstone.
“As visitation continues increasing in Yellowstone, we are looking at a range of visitor management actions that focus on protecting resources, improving the visitor experience, and reducing congestion, noise, and pollution,” Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement. “Shuttles will unquestionably play a key role in helping achieve these goals in many of the busiest areas of the park.”
The Best Electric Vehicles for Towing
An EV may be your next tow vehicle — and the options just keep getting better.
If you’re looking for the best EV for towing a trailer or boat, you’re in luck. There are more electrified cars and trucks available in the automotive marketplace today than ever before, and quite a few are engineered to tow some substantial weight.
A complete compendium of those EVs offering maximum trailer weight ratings of at least 1,500 pounds could go on forever. You don’t have forever, so we rounded up a representative group of the electric vehicles available today that offer maximum trailer weight ratings ranging from 1,500 to 10,000-plus pounds. One of these smart and powerful EVs just might be your best EV that can tow.
It’s Official. Lucid Air Is the Longest-Range EV Ever
And it doubles up as a backup energy unit and a camper.
Norwegian tech startup Fresco Motors just revealed its new Fresco XL, an electric vehicle (EV) that it claims will have a range of 620 miles (1,000 km). If the claim is true, it would make it the longest-range EV in the world.
Currently, the 2021 Lucid Air is the longest-range EV on the market with its EPA rating of 520 miles (837 km). Mercedes-Benz has announced its partially solar-powered Vision EQXX with a range of 620 miles (1000 km), though that is only in the concept stage.
Fresco Motors was founded in 2019 and was named after the futurist engineer Jacque Fresco. In its new statement, the company announced that the Fresco XL will feature an electric motor on each axle, meaning the all-wheel-drive EV will be off-road capable. The company also said the vehicle will come with a double-stacked extra-large battery pack that solves the range anxiety problem\.
Norwegian tech startup Fresco Motors just revealed its new Fresco XL, an electric vehicle that it claims will have a range of 620 miles.
New Tesla Cybertruck accessory wants to turn the electric pickup truck into a boat
While the Tesla Cybertruck has recently been delayed again, the hype is so strong around the electric pickup truck that some people are already working on thrid-party accessories for the vehicle.
Now, we see the most ambitious project yet, a kit that transform the Tesla Cybertruck into an electric boat.
When it comes to ambitious Cybertruck accessories, I thought that nothing could beat the Cyberlandr, which is trying to fit a full camper into the electric pickup’s bed. But I was wrong.
Tesla cut a steering component from some cars to deal with chip shortage, sources say
Under pressure to hit fourth-quarter sales goals while coping with widespread semiconductor shortages, Tesla decided to remove one of the two electronic control units that are normally included in the steering racks of some made-in-China Model 3 and Model Y cars, according to two employees and internal correspondence seen by CNBC.
Tesla did not disclose the exclusion, which has already affected tens of thousands of vehicles being shipped to customers in China, Australia, the U.K., Germany and other parts of Europe. It was not immediately clear whether Tesla would make similar changes to cars manufactured in or shipped to the U.S.
It’s Official, No More Stick Shifts for Mercedes-Benz
Using an automatically-operated clutch.
New patent filings from Ford outline a design for a new type of manual box that only uses hand inputs and doesn’t require a clutch pedal to shift, a report from *The Drive* reveals.
With its new design, Ford aims to remove some of the negative associations drivers have with manual transmission vehicles, which has led some big automakers, such as Mercedes-Benz, to announce they will stop producing stick shift cars. ## An easier way to shift gears.
The patent, for a manual transmission with [an] electric clutch\.
Ford’s new patent filings show a new type of manual box design that only uses hand inputs and doesn’t require a clutch pedal to shift.