French car maker PSA Peugeot-Citroen has unveiled the new DS Wild Rubis Concept hybrid crossover vehicle at the ongoing 2013 Auto Shanghai being held in China. The vehicle is powered by a 1.6L THP gasoline engine that generates an output ...
The Slow Toy team has now revealed the entry opening date for this year's Awards. They will officially be open for entries on Friday, May 3rd and participants will have just under six weeks to post their entries before the official close ...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes consumer and off-grid products integrated with flexible, lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), has partnered with ...
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The Citroen DS Wild Rubis concept?has been unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai auto show, revealing a plug-in hybrid powertrain and all-wheel-drive technology. Initially revealed ahead of the Chinese auto show, previewing the French ...
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Ohio State University's is aiming for 400mph from a student-designed and built electric car. Called Buckeye Bullet 3, it joins a line of record-breaking cars from the University's (OSU's) Center for Automotive Research (CAR). "The third ...
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April 22 marks the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day, when millions of Americans turn green or at the very least think about the environment. At Consumer Reports, green--in the form of fuel economy, energy efficiency, recycling, and many other ...
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There are multifarious motors available on the market, and each is best suited for wide range of applications. Some types of applications even require two or three types of motors. However, for those of you who are not aware of more popular ...
Auto parts manufacturer Johnson Controls will offer its Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) advanced battery technology to power vehicles made in China. Chery Jaguar Land Rover will use the battery technology in its Start-Stop vehicles. The ...
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First Watch Security, a division of Belwith Products, will unveil the Smart Deadbolt using Bluetooth 4.0 Technology during the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show in New Orleans, April 19 – 21, 2013. The Smart Deadbolt is the first ...
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With class-leading noise rejection of 8 mA – twice that of most comparable instruments – and enhanced software filtering that has four user-selectable options, Megger's new S1 series 5 kV and 10 kV dc insulation resistance ...
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NASA is pressing ahead with a plan to install lithium-ion batteries on the International Space Station (ISS), New Scientist has learned. The batteries are similar to those used on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft, all 50 of which have been ...
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Texas Instruments has developed its first battery management gas gauge IC for multi-cell lead-acid battery packs. Lead-acid batteries typically behave better than lithium chemistries in environments with wide temperature ranges, says TI, ...
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Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2013. US net imports of petroleum and other liquid fuels as a share of product supplied (used as a proxy for consumption) have been one of the most watched indicators in ...
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Earlier, the method used for fabrication of pure sine wave inverter was linear technology that resulted in less-efficient inverters at high prices. The modern technique used is PWM that created highly efficient systems. As the popularity ...
Lithium sulphur batteries could have more than double, and perhaps five times, the energy density of Li-ion cells. And they are not just lab curiosities: rechargeable Li2S batteries from Sion Power of Arizona were used in QinetiQ's Zephyr ...