Here’s a motor of the BMW’s 10-cylinder M5; compare to photo of Tesla’s below. When EVs first came on the scene, many people believed that the sheer simplicity of the concept, and the extremely high efficiency that it gave birth …
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Where Did All the EVs Go?
How did we lose EV technology? It depends on what you believe. The common answer is that the electric starter, developed in the early 1920s to replace the hand crank, made internal combustion engines easy to start for women and …
Trump Administration Brings Both Winners and Losers
As Donald Trump promised it would, his presidency has been a considerable boon to Big Oil; in fact, the entire fossil fuel industry has enjoyed a huge reprieve from its slow but steady path towards obsolescence as a result of …
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Tensions Develop as Environmental Concerns Build
According to this note in the Writer’s Almanac, yesterday was the 101st anniversary of the opening of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” a ballet so new in its day that it caused a literal riot in the theater in which …
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