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Tesla door handles become unlikely hero as they stump road rager

[ad_1] When dealing with the unfortunate reality that is a road rage situation, plenty of options are available to keep you safe. Locking your doors or attempting to de-escalate the situation before anything major starts are two logical solutions, but a new one might be to buy a Tesla because of their unique door handles, […]

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Pi-EV Concept Challenge Returns for a 6th Season 

[ad_1] Pi-EV, formerly called the FS Electric Vehicle Concept Challenge (FSEV), is a conceptual engineering design competition. This season will mark the 6th consecutive annual challenge which will be held virtually from June 17 through to July 2, 2022. Twenty-one post-secondary student teams have registered for the Pi-EV 2022 competition out of which 19 are

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Electric shock to petroleum coke generates sustainable graphene

[ad_1] Researchers at Texas A&M University and ExxonMobil are developing a method to reprocess petroleum coke—a byproduct of refining crude oil—into graphene, using a chemical process called electrochemical exfoliation. This open-access study was published in NPJ 2D Materials and Applications. Simplified schematic of refinery operations and products: there is a need to push these petroleum

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Tesla gets pitch to build “end-to-end” industry in Indonesia from Jokowi

[ad_1] Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo pitched an end-to-end industry to Tesla. He proposed that Tesla could start from smelting metal to producing batteries and then manufacturing cars.  “We had a lot of discussions, particularly on how Tesla can build their industry from upstream to downstream, end-to end starting from smelter then build the cathode

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The Week of Driving Autonomously in an Xpeng

[ad_1] XPeng, a Chinese maker of EVs, sent a fleet of XPeng P7s on a 2,284-mile, weeklong autonomous driving jaunt across six provinces, the longest by any mass-produced vehicles in the country. A demonstration of XPeng’s navigation-guided pilot (NGP) autonomous driving capabilities is taking place right now on highways in China. Developed in-house, NGP is

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