World’s fastest wireless EV charger unlocks 100 kW parking spots

ORNL researchers are celebrating the fastest wireless charger ever tested with an EV. It operates at 100 kW, and 96% efficiency

A new wireless EV charging pad can fill a car’s battery as efficiently as a wired plug, at groundbreaking 100 kW power levels – unlocking the possibility of fast, efficient and super-convenient charging simply by parking in a designated spot.

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Ferla Lagom cargo ebike is claimed to be the most powerful of its kind

The Ferla Lagom is currently being offered at an introductory price of US$3,999

If you’re gonna be hauling kids and cargo around on your ebike, then that bike had better have some oomph. Well, the Ferla Lagom sounds like a good choice, as it lays claim to the title of “the most powerful long-tail electric cargo bike ever built.”

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Twisted, 3,000-horsepower Chaos Ultracar offers a glimpse of the future

The Spyros Panopoulos Chaos will become, on debut, the most powerful street-legal production car in history, by a margin of more than 50%

Strap in, petrolheads. The spec sheet and bizarrely organic-looking design of this 3-D printed Greek widowmaker are almost as wild a ride as the 3,000-horsepower car itself. Spyros Panopoulos Automotive has unveiled its Chaos “Ultracar,” and if you’ve ever seen a wilder piece of functional art that can nail a quarter mile in 7.5 seconds, we’d love to hear about it.

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Japan’s Fugaku surpasses Summit as world’s most powerful supercomputer

Fugaku is now the most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the latest Top500 list

The world’s most powerful supercomputer has just fired up. A newcomer named Fugaku has nabbed the number one spot in the Top500 list of supercomputers, surpassing Summit, the reigning champion of the past few years.

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The world’s most powerful production motorcycles: 200 hp or go home

One of the world's most powerful motorcycles

Two hundred horsepower is a perfectly decent amount of power for a small to medium sized car. It is a lewd and indecent amount to stuff into a motorcycle that weighs next to nothing and adheres to the road with two small tire contact patches that would add up to about the size of a credit card.

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The crazy organic details on Greece’s 3,000-hp Project Chaos “ultracar”

That horrifying alien-like growth is a brake caliper, folks, designed using a proprietary generative process Panopoulos calls

Extreme hypercars have come at us thick and fast in the last couple of years, but none more extreme than this. Greek drag racing tuner Spyros Panopoulos – and surely there can be no more Greek a name than that – is preparing to launch a combustion car so ludicrously overpowered that he feels it belongs in a whole new category above hypercars and megacars: the lone ultracar.

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The world’s most powerful cars: 1,000-horsepower minimum

The D12's stunning top view highlights the enormous 7.6-liter V12, as well as the barely-there front end

This is our list of the world’s most powerful production cars, ordered from least to most powerful and including every current or upcoming production car we’re aware of – electric, hybrid or combustion – that claims to make more than 1,000 horsepower. Enjoy, and please tell us if we’ve missed anything, or if you spy something new! We’ll update the list regularly.

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