Collaborate Disseminate
While electric vehicles (EVs) are generally less likely to catch fire than their internal combustion counterparts, it does still happen, and firefighters need to be ready. Accordingly, the UL Research …read more Continue reading UL Investigates the Best Way to Fight EV Fires
As the electric vehicle takeover slowly lumbers along, marginally increasing efficiencies for certain applications while entrenching car-centric urban design even further, there are some knock-on effects that are benefiting people …read more Continue reading Electric Vehicle Charging Heats Up
[Garage 54] is no stranger to vehicle-related projects of the “because why not?” variety, and their latest is using 50 cordless drills combined into a monstrous mega-motor to turn a …read more Continue reading Turning a Lada Into An EV With 50 Cordless Drills, Because Why Not?
Problem solved? If the problem is supplying enough lithium to build batteries for all the electric vehicles that will be needed by 2030, then a new lithium deposit in Arkansas …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 27, 2024
NCC Group experts share details of how they exploited critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Phoenix Contact EV chargers (electric… Continue reading Zero-day Flaws Exposed EV Chargers to Shutdowns and Data Theft
There was movement in the “AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act” last week, with the bill advancing out of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee and heading …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 29, 2024
We’ve been going on at length in this space about the death spiral that AM radio seems to be in, particularly in the automotive setting. Car makers have begun the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 14, 2024
Rare earth elements are used to produce magnets with very high strength that also strongly resist demagnetization, their performance is key to modern motors such as those in electric vehicles …read more Continue reading Making EV Motors, And Breaking Up with Rare Earth Elements
While EV charging isn’t that tedious with a cable, for quick trips, being able to just park and have your car automatically charge would be more convenient. Researchers from Oak …read more Continue reading Polyphase Wireless EV Fast Charging Moves Forward
We’ve been harping a lot lately about the effort by carmakers to kill off AM radio, ostensibly because making EVs that don’t emit enough electromagnetic interference to swamp broadcast signals …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 9, 2024