Tag: electric
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Lighting Candles In The Modern Era
Why use a flame to get a candle going, when you can use a super cool arc of electricity. Well, we shouldn’t say ‘cool’, you know, but… you get the point. It’s called the ARC Lighter, and it uses a 2,012F spark across a ceramic tip to ignite pretty much any combustible material. You’ll get…
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The WalkCar Personal Mobility Device Is Not Much Bigger Than A Laptop
For a while the only personal mobility device you could get was a Segway. Or at least, the only high-tech, electric such vehicle. But now the marketplace is flooding with new electric scooters, and skateboards, and the WalkCar is an interesting addition. Its claim to fame is how small it is. Barely bigger than a…
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Goodyear Is Developing An Electricity-Generating Tire
Think for a minute about how much energy is wasted in a car. All that gas it burns to get it rolling is almost entirely dissipated and lost as heat in the brakes as it slows back down, while the rest goes to combatting air resistance and drivetrain inefficiencies. By some accounts “only about 14%–30%…
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LumiLor LED Paint Is The Coolest Thing We’ve Seen In A While
Imagine for a second a special kind of paint, one that you can spray anywhere like, you know, regular paint. Except this particular one lights up on command! Yes, LumiLor paint from Darkside Scientific is pretty much a liquid spray-on LED. Seriously. Any surface sprayed with this stuff, and connected properly, can be lit instantly,…
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Movpak is an Electric Skateboard and a Backpack In One
Get to where you’re supposed to be fast and in one piece with Movpak. You could be on that board for years but still lose your balance if you’re carrying a particularly heavy backpack. Cue the Movpak, which is a cross between a backpack and an electric skateboard that solves your problem of finding a truly portable,…
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The Johammer J1 is a 125-Mile Range Electric Bike
You ain’t seen nothing yet when it comes to electric bikes unless you’ve seen the Johammer J1. One thing that has discouraged a lot of people from going for electric motorcycles is the limited range, when compared to the gas-guzzling variety. You might argue that electric cars like the Tesla have great range for something…
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Is This What The BMW i8’s Keyfob Will Look Like?
You may be looking at BMW’s key fob for their upcoming i8 plug-in hybrid car. It kind of looks like a mini smartphone and allegedly features a high resolution LCD that informs you of a few essential metrics on your vehicle, like its current range and charge time. There are rumours that it’ll be programmable…
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Is NEVS Going Electric With the Next-Generation Saab 9-3?
So it’s been almost two years since Saab went bankrupt. It’s a huge shame, but the silver lining is that National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) will be releasing a new model under the Saab name in 2014. At least, that’s the plan anyway. A bunch of sketches of purported Saab car designs hit the web recently,…
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Rubbee Turns Any Old Bicycle Into an Electric Bike In Seconds
Electric bikes aren’t cheap. They might even seem like a frivolous purchase, especially if you’ve already got a bicycle that cost an arm and a leg when you bought it a few years ago. While there are a lot of conversion kits available to “electric-fy” your bike, most of them make your bike look like…
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LOLGAS: Wolkswagen To Release 314mpg XL1 Hybrid
With all the talk about the superior performance of the Tesla Model S, it’s easy to forget that most electric cars aren’t quite as swift. But what the Wolkswagen XL1 lacks in speed and acceleration, it makes up in fuel efficiency. The plug-in hybrid was tested at 340mpg, but the officials in charge of the…