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EPA Says World’s Only Production-Ready Solar Car Meets Emissions Requirements

The EPA clears the Aptera solar-powered vehicle for use on public roads, a few hurdles still remain until the autocycle can ...

This race car is made from plant fibers, volcanoes, … and seawater?

There’s a lot of magnesium [alloy] in that era of race car, and the way magnesium is generally processed and turned into ...

3 Android Auto automations that make my drives much easier - and how I set them up

3 Android Auto automations that make my drives much easier - and how I set them up ...
Electrek

Volkswagen put 100 sheep to work under 31,000 solar panels

A Volkswagen factory in Poland is using 100 sheep to maintain its solar farm, cutting mowing while boosting biodiversity and ...
Hackaday

Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested

For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap they’re ...

Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one — instead, it’s offering ...
Electrek

China’s giant Gobi solar plant runs after dark on salt, not batteries

China Three Gorges' 1 GW Hami hybrid stores solar in molten salt, not lithium batteries, to keep generating for up to 8 hours ...

I use Android Auto in my living room now - and it solves ones of my biggest productivity problems

I use Android Auto in my living room now - and it solves ones of my biggest productivity problems ...
CNET

Waymo Plans to Expand Driverless Cars to 4 More Major Cities This Year

Self-driving company Waymo added four more cities where it will service riders: Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas and Tampa. Waymo ...
Hackaday

Transportation Hacks

We know, we know. Despite being called ESP32-Plane-Radar, this project from [Mateusz Juszczyk] isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round LCD this desktop gadget does a fantastic job of ...