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This cheap Chinese electric truck has a face only a mother could love

Electrek

A big part of the fun of finding vehicles for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column comes from all of the interesting fascia designs. These uniquely Chinese vehicles often have interesting faces , giving each vehicle a unique personality.

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Cheap mini e-truck? Flying electric boats? Top 5 wildest non-car EVs I tested this year

Electrek

Part of that is due to the way electric drivetrains help break the mold of aging design constraints, but it’s also due to a new wave of forward-thinking engineers boldly pushing products in new and exciting directions. Here are the top five wildest and most awesome personal electric vehicles I tested in 2022. Flying electric boats?

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight.

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Sheffield engineers use 3D printing for a 1.5m-wide UAV prototype

Green Car Congress

The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours. They plan to develop the craft for guidance by GPS or camera technology, controlled by an operator wearing first person-view goggles.

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Junkyard Find: 1993 Isuzu Stylus

The Truth About Cars

There are certain milestone vehicles I have worked at checking off a personal list as I roam the junkyards of the land. A pair of Colorado-based Isuzu aficionados from the online Isuzone community had swooped in and were yanking body, trim and interior parts galore off this car. Its parts will live on and thrive in this Stylus.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular? Why would I bother to do that, you ask? That, however, isn't really true.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

Part of the project involved putting some prototypes in the homes of potential users. KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

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