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EV Radar: December 2021

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Fleets not only buy vehicles but (some) must sell them long before they’re out of commission. New South Wales has earmarked money to help cover the cost difference between buying gas-powered fleet vehicles and electric ones. These are good goals, and the concepts shown in the post are pretty fun. New EV Announcements.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." The result, called Jam, for John and Martin, proved the concepts he brought from Evans & Sutherland were appropriate for laser printing. Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” of Cupertino, Calif.)

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Polestar execs offered mixed messages about that—in a virtual press briefing, the head of design said everything was unique to the brand, as visualized in the Polestar Precept concept car shown at the Geneva Motor Show.

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Future Transistors, Plastic Processors, and 3D Chips

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That seems to have been the reaction you (dear devoted IEEE Spectrum reader) took with your semiconductor article consumption. The First High-Yield, Sub-Penny Plastic Processors I’ve been listening to promises of cheap, flexible electronics my whole career. It’s not that I wasn’t buying it; I was. So where’s my smart-banana?

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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The group took as its founding principle that the challenges involved in building a crewed spacecraft on the cheap are all engineering problems that can be solved, one at a time, by a diligent team of smart and dedicated people. This article appears in the December 2021 print issue as "The First Crowdfunded Astronaut.". km to the east.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? 11 days ago See More Related Articles and Blog Posts Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) 1 morgan 9:26PM (4/22/2009) Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a mid 90s car? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. Project Better Place, along with Renault-Nissan and now Daimler , are advancing the concept of swapping out charged batteries for empty batteries.