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World’s Mightiest Solar Boat Unveiled

The PlanetSolar catamaran will circumnavigate the globe in 120 days running on nothing but the sun’s energy
Nearly 500 years after Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the globe using nothing but renewable power, Swiss engineer Raphael Domjan and French sailor Gerard D’Abouville are preparing to repeat Elcano’s journey [...]

Paperweight: A battery made from cellulose

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A lightweight battery that could be used to identify and track objects
MANY an engineer has dreamed of making a battery as light, thin and flexible as paper. Such a device would dramatically trim the weight and dimensions of whatever it powered. Now Albert Mihranyan of Uppsala University in Sweden and his [...]

Coda Automotive E.V. Test Drive

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Coda Automotive revealed its battery electric sedan two weeks ago with a Webinar. On Sunday, I got a short test drive with the company’s president and chief executive, Kevin Czinger, near his home in Greenwich, Conn.
It can be very quiet in the leafy precincts of Greenwich, and the Coda added only a high-pitched [...]

Virus battery could ‘power cars’

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Viruses have been used to help build batteries that may one day power cars and all types of electronic devices.
The speed and relatively cheap cost of manufacturing virus batteries could prove attractive to industry.
Professor Angela Belcher, who led the research team, said: “Our material is powerful enough to be able to be used [...]

Brew your own

Home-brew kits for hydrogen may bring it back into contention as a vehicle fuel
A FEW years ago, the race to replace the petrol-driven internal-combustion engine was dominated by hydrogen. Fuel cells, which mix hydrogen with oxygen to produce electricity and water, were the darlings of the technological world. The crowd, however, is fickle, and the [...]