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Elysian Aircraft CEO On Rethinking Electric Flight At Airline Scale

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Most studies simply tried to electrify today's fuel-efficient planes and hit a wall with battery weight."

it follows the traditional tube-and-wing layout, so it fits right in on routes like London to Amsterdam.

"Battery-electric systems are four to six times more energy-efficient than hydrogen or SAF, retaining over 80% of input energy. Hydrogen does address battery weight and range limitations, but it loses much more energy across production, storage, and distribution."

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CATL Unveils 9 MWh TENER Stack Energy Storage System That Can Charge 150 EVs

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...the company unveiled a 20-foot-tall energy storage system (ESS) called the TENER Stack...offers breakthroughs in storage capacity, deployment flexibility, safety, and transportation efficiency. It also has the energy storage capabilities to charge 150 EVs.

"The towering energy storage system offers a "world's first" storage capacity of 9 MWh supported by CATL's high-energy-density LFP cells...Due to their massive size and weight less than 36 tons in many countries."

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Could Seattle Transit Include Water-Skipping Electric Vessels? This Irish Company Hopes So

10 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Irish company Artemis Technologies'... high-tech boat...will be built on the banks of the Duwamish River as it enters Puget Sound... hydrofoils...have been around Puget Sound for a long time

"The Marine Division is actively exploring new, high-efficiency vessel designs and no or low-emission propulsion systems for the next generation of its fleet..the county is also looking at diesel-powered vessels, along with many other technological options..."

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BYD's 5-Minute EV Fast Charging: We Tried It. It's A Game-Changer

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...InsideEVs...the sole Western outlet invited...can confirm that five-minute fast-charging is very real.

"BYD's breakthrough isn't just a car, or a battery, or the charger itself. It's all three, and how they work in concert with each other...starts with BYD's new Super e-Platform. The automaker claims it's the world's first mass-produced vehicle platform on a 1,000-volt electrical architecture..ultra-high level of voltage...BYD calls a "kilovolt architecture".

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Whisper Unveils Autonomous Aircraft Family For Contested Logistics

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Collaborative Logistics Aircraft (CLA) family comprises the clean-sheet Group 3 uncrewed CLA Light, with a 500-lb. payload, and the Group 5 optionally piloted CLA Heavy, a retrofitted nine-passenger aircraft able to carry 3,000 lb. of cargo...The CLA Light has a 40-kW powerplant that drives an array of 12 eQ250s on the wing leading edge...The 10,140 lb. CLA Heavy has a 600-kW powerplant driving 30 ducted fans on the leading edge of a new 50-ft.

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Hackers Manage To Take Control of Nissan Leaf's Steering Remotely

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

Researchers from Budapest-based PCAutomotive traveled to Black Hat Asia 2025 to demonstrate how they managed to hack into a 2020 Nissan Leaf...With some lines of code and used parts sourced from eBay and a junkyard, the hackers could record passenger audio, sound the horn and, yes, yank the wheel...The team identified a list of 10 vulnerabilities that allowed it to access the Leaf's infotainment system and notified Nissan."

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Connected Energy and Forsee Power to Develop Grid-Scale Energy Storage Using Second Life Batteries From Electric Buses

08 May 2025 | Synopsis

Connected Energy and Forsee Power...(a)greement to jointly design and develop a modular, scalable energy storage solution...second life technology with Forsee Power's ZEN 35 and ZEN 42 battery packs, which are deployed in about 1,500 electric buses in Europe

"The first 2.5MWh system will be operational in the UK in the final quarter of 2025. Following this first project, it is anticipated that further projects, each typically exceeding 25MWh

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Fuel-Cell Solution Promises To Solve Power Issues For Dismounted Operations

07 May 2025 | Synopsis

"The fuel-cell solution is aimed at use in battery-powered drones, satellite-based systems, location and identification sensors, and other communication systems...Based on the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, those products were engineered to be silent, emission-free and signature-free...The best lithium-ion technology these days achieves roughly 200 to maybe 300-watt hours per kilogram. [SFC] fuel cells exceed 1400."

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Indian and Malaysian Researchers Team Up To Create Bio-Based Membranes For Fuel Cells

07 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal" ...and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia..."have been exploring the potential of natural materials to replace Nafion...three natural ingredients: sulfonated poly(vinyl alcohol) (SPVA), chitosan (CH), and cellulose nanocrystals (CNC)...The membrane with 3% CNCs had the highest selectivity among all the ones they tested, meaning it did the best job overall at its two main tasks."

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Toyota Issues Urgent Warning: Falling Behind China Goes Far Beyond Just EVs

07 May 2025 | Synopsis

"Last year, over 17 million EVs were sold globally. According to Rho Motion, China accounted for 11 million, or over 60%...Data...shows that CATL and BYD alone accounted for over 55% of the global EV battery market in 2024... BYD confirmed that most of its vehicles, including its ultra-low-cost Seagull, will now include its new 'Gods Eye' driver-assistance system... Toyota's hydrogen boss explained, 'China is the most advanced in the world for hydrogen trucks."

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Rethinking Hydrogen's Role in Decarbonization

07 May 2025 | Synopsis

"...a new paper from Nature Reviews shows that there is still hope for hydrogen within a cleaner energy future, but that we will have to be more selective about its applications...still holds critical potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in industry, long-duration energy storage and long-haul transport. On the other hand, hydrogen likely does not hold a solution for fuel cell cars and space heating..."

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Electric Cars Are More Reliable Than Gas Cars - New ADAC Study

05 May 2025 | Synopsis

"German Automobile Club (ADAC) tells us...electric cars are much more reliable than gasoline-powered cars...responding to 3.6 million breakdowns last year, for example...

"While it responded to more EV calls for service than ever before, those accounted for just 43,678 out of the 3.6 million total or just 1.2%electric vehicles experienced 4.2 breakdowns per 1,000 vehicles...In comparison, cars powered by fossil fuels... had 10.4 breakdowns per 1,000 vehicles."

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