Have you heard of the silent killer? Every year, carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning claims 500 victims in the United States. This colorless, odorless gas is a byproduct of using common household appliances which burn fuels like natural gas, ...
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Fall is a good time of year to think about fire and carbon monoxide safety in your home. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) urges consumers to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms this weekend. ...
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Daimler has sold its remaining 4% stake in electric car company Tesla Motors which fetched the company $780m. According to reports, the selling of shares will improve Tesla's ties with Mercedes rival BMW. Tesla supplies batteries and ...
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Ioxus, a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for use in transportation, industrial and energy applications, today announced results of an extensive durability testtest is test of its flagship hybrid bus product, ...
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SupercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is ...
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Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a Hanergy Holdings company) has announced a cooperation with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to integrate solar power into their aircraft. Founded in 2007, Alta ...
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Researchers at the Gear Research Center (FZG) of Technische Universitt München (TUM) in Germany have developed torque vectoring transmission that can be used in electric vehicles. The light-weight torque vectoring transmission is ...
Scientists from German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Singapore based Nanyang Technological University NTU have developed a 2-in-1 electric motor which claimed to increase the range of electric vehicles The scientists integrated traditional ...
Electric Blue, an electric car built by Brigham Young University (BYU) students has broken its previous world land speed record, by improving the speed by 50 mph. The car also known as E1 streamliner reached an average of 204.9 mph on two ...
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Eco2charge group, a consortium of French companies, has announced the development of an electric car charging system from old batteries. The Eco2charge group consists of Alstom, Renault, Bouygues and Nexans, which jointly developed the ...
Inefficiencies and durability questions cropping up with now-proliferating stop/start systems could be opening the door for long-promising, but little applied ultracapacitor technology in the light-vehicle market. Ultracaps, long ...
Tesla was planning to renew its contract with Toyota for supplying batteries and motors for Toyota's RAV4 electric SUV, but reports suggest that Toyota has no current or pending collaboration with the US based car maker. The supply ...
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The 12 days of Christmas will be the theme for this year's event, taking place on November 5th. The team behind Dream Toys is aiming to make this year’s event the best yet, with a new theme and more categories than before. The ...
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American car manufacturer Tesla and Toyota Motor could sign a new deal over the next two to three years, ending an existing program. California-based Tesla has been supplying batteries and motors for Toyota's RAV4 electric SUVs that went ...
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