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China is discovering the headache that comes with the success of electric vehicles: overflowing parking lots and cities forced to redesign every parking space to accommodate 800-kg batteries
1+ hour, 24+ min ago (869+ words) Home - Engines - China is discovering the headache that comes with the success of electric vehicles: overflowing parking lots and cities forced to redesign every parking space to accommodate 800-kg batteries China's electric vehicle boom has created an unexpected everyday problem....
Jinpeng mini-electric vehicles are hitting the roads in Mexico at motorcycle prices and threaten to electrify Latin America's "last mile
6+ hour, 9+ min ago (853+ words) Home - Engines - Jinpeng mini-electric vehicles are hitting the roads in Mexico at motorcycle prices and threaten to electrify Latin America's "last mile" Mexico's push for tiny electric vehicles is not arriving in an empty market. While the government-backed Olinia project…...
New Chinese regulations prohibit electric car batteries from catching fire: chemical safety becomes a passport for global exports
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (908+ words) Home - Energy - New Chinese regulations prohibit electric car batteries from catching fire: chemical safety becomes a passport for global exports China is preparing to make battery fire safety a mandatory test of whether an electric car is ready for the…...
In China, you can now pre-order a life-size humanoid robot'not for cleaning or cooking, but to keep you company and remember conversations as if someone were home
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (1071+ words) Home - Technology - In China, you can now pre-order a life-size humanoid robot'not for cleaning or cooking, but to keep you company and remember conversations as if someone were home China's next consumer humanoid may not arrive with a mop, a…...
China has just connected a giant battery to the power grid that doesn't use lithium cells, but rather a difference in elevation, recycled weight, and an idea as old as the physics of gravity
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1115+ words) Home - Energy - China has just connected a giant battery to the power grid that doesn't use lithium cells, but rather a difference in elevation, recycled weight, and an idea as old as the physics of gravity On the coast of…...
The blowback after the boom: how China is trying to anticipate the looming battery end-of-life problem after the EV revolution
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (861+ words) Home - Energy - The blowback after the boom: how China is trying to anticipate the looming battery end-of-life problem after the EV revolution China put millions of new-energy vehicles on the road with breathtaking speed. Now comes the less glamorous part…...
Canada installs solar panels on a frozen lake and discovers how the ice boosts efficiency by reflecting more light onto the silicon.
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (923+ words) Home - Military - Canada throws a solar panel into a frozen pond, and the foam detail may solve one of winter power's hidden problems Canada has tested a floating solar system that kept producing electricity through freezing winter conditions, even as…...
A self-sufficient home is being built in the middle of the desert: earthen walls, rainwater, and 100% solar power to raise children without relying on the power grid
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1105+ words) Home - Construction - A self-sufficient home is being built in the middle of the desert: earthen walls, rainwater, and 100% solar power to raise children without relying on the power grid Jonathan and Ashley Longnecker did not just move to the Arizona…...
The world's largest solar farm is greening the Tibetan desert: 20, 000 sheep graze where yesterday there was only dust and solar panels.
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (725+ words) Home - Energy - The world's largest solar farm is greening the Tibetan desert: 20, 000 sheep graze where yesterday there was only dust and solar panels China's solar push has delivered a strange and very real side effect on the Tibetan Plateau. In…...
A 15-year-old builds a $12 ocean-current generator, and the tiny device turns moving water into off-grid electricity
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (957+ words) Home - Construction - A 15-year-old builds a $12 ocean-current generator, and the tiny device turns moving water into off-grid electricity A teenage inventor from Boca Raton, Florida, built a low-cost ocean energy device that still feels timely years later because it tackles…...