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San Francisco company Aura Aerospace is working on a remarkably odd idea: replacing batteries in electric VTOL air taxis with high-powered “Powercell” ultracapacitors capable of massive power output and 10-minute charging.Continue ReadingCategory: Airc… Continue reading Aura Aerospace pitches Powercell ultracapacitor powertrains for eVTOL
When you’re laser-cutting parts for a build project, you obviously want to be as efficient as possible. A new MIT-created program is designed to help, by optimizing the manner in which parts are cut from sheets of raw material.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading MIT tech gets the most bang for the buck out of laser-cut materials
Although autonomous tractors may be well-suited to some applications, there are other times when a human driver is still required. That’s where a new kit comes in, as it allows existing tractors to be switched between autonomous and manual modes.Contin… Continue reading Aftermarket kit gives existing tractors an autonomous mode
Work was recently completed on Richard Rogers’ final project for the firm he founded back in 1977, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The now-retired Pritzker Prize-winning architect has gone out on a high – literally – with a striking art gallery that e… Continue reading Richard Rogers art gallery floats over a forest in France
BP and Chevron have led a US$40 million investment round for a Canadian startup that claims to have developed a unique way to extract energy from geothermal heat on demand, using an unpowered looping fluid design that’s already prototyped in Alberta.Co… Continue reading Big oil invests in Eavor’s “holy grail” pump-free geothermal loops
McLaren was reasonably early on the whole hybrid supercar train; while the BMW i8 was the first to break cover in 2011, it didn’t hit production until 2014. By then, the McLaren P1, LaFerrari and Porsche 918 were all on the road making monster horsepow… Continue reading Meet the Artura hybrid, the first totally new McLaren in a decade
Visitors to London’s Marble Arch will soon be able to see the area from a whole new perspective thanks to an unusual project by MVRDV. The firm plans to install a hollow hill-like structure in the UK capital in the coming months.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Hillside attraction lets tourists see London from a different perspective
We’ve written about Israeli company REE Automotive and its remarkable super-flat modular EV chassis several times before. The company has a drastically disruptive offer for automakers; we’ll build you a skateboard electric vehicle chassis full of batte… Continue reading Unique flat EV chassis maker REE to open large facility in the UK
The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary mission has passed a major milestone, successfully placing a spacecraft in orbit around Mars and beaming back its first ever picture of the Red Planet. The Hope probe’s arrival marks an important step forw… Continue reading UAE’s Hope probe beams back its first picture of Mars
Right now, the entire electric VTOL scene is a house built on a foundation of faith. Faith that the hordes of researchers beavering away on next-gen battery technology will achieve an enormous energy density breakthrough, or faith that hydrogen fuel ce… Continue reading Ascendance proposes a long-range, low-emission hybrid VTOL air taxi