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September 21, 2021 |
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The CO2 carbon footprint of a battery-electric vehicle (BEV) running on power generated by fossil fuels only – coal, oil, gas – is roughly the same over its lifetime as a car with an...
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April 28, 2021 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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A computer-generated study in Germany imagines a time when commuters on the country’s Kiel Fjord waterway will be carried by zero-emissions ferries...
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April 28, 2021 |
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A computer-generated study in Germany (see video) imagines a time when commuters on the country’s Kiel Fjord waterway will be carried by zero-emissions ferries. The look into the future...
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February 23, 2021 |
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The car, over the next 10 years or so, will become a consumer electronics product full of micro-processors. “It will have 80 to 100 software controllers – in the end it will work like a...
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December 9, 2020 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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US start-up QuantumScape (its largest shareholder is Volkswagen) has said it’s developed a solid-state battery based on a deceptively simple idea. Instead of a conventional liquid...
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November 22, 2020 |
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Let’s take a couple of upcoming electric vans to New Zealand as an example, the Ford Transit and LDV’s eDeliver 3, if only because they are square shaped with lots of sheet metal and...
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November 2, 2020 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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Canadian company Worksport has developed a folding tonneau cover for pick-up trucks that contains a cutting-edge solar charging and storage system...
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November 2, 2020 |
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Canadian company Worksport has developed a folding tonneau cover for pick-up trucks that contains a cutting-edge solar charging and storage system. The cover, called TerraVis, uses solar...
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September 15, 2020 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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One hundred to one – that’s the ratio of petrol- and diesel-powered to hybrid or all-electric SUVs registered with the NZ Transport Agency since the beginning of 2017. It’s actually...
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July 13, 2020 |
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Wireless charging technology pioneered by University of Auckland professors John Boys and Grant Covic has helped an Australian company log a world first for electric cars (EVs), one it...
