#electric future

Using a wild new e-Corner system, Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 allows for all four wheels to turn 90 degrees, making it able to perform sideways driving and zero-turns, where it’s turning radius is within the footprint of the car itself. Watching the Ioniq 5 with ‘Crab Driving’ is mesmerizing, as vehicles aren’t supposed to be able to shuffle sideways like a crustacean.  It’s dramatically better than GM’s…

At the zip code level, for every additional 20 ZEVs per 1,000 people, there was a 3.2% drop in the rate of asthma-related emergency visits and a small suggestive reduction in NO2 levels. On average across zip codes in the state, ZEVs increased from 1.4 to 14.6 per 1,000 people between 2013 and 2019. ZEV adoption was significantly lower in zip codes with lower levels of educational attainment. For example, a zip code with 17% of the population having a bachelor’s degree had, on average, an annual increase of 0.70 ZEVs per 1,000 people compared to an annual increase of 3.6 ZEVs per 1,000 people for a zip code with 47% of the population having a bachelor’s degree.

Past research has shown that underserved communities, such as lower-income neighborhoods, tend to face worse pollution and associated respiratory problems than more affluent areas. If ZEVs replace gas-powered cars in those neighborhoods, they could stand to benefit substantially.

“Should continuing research support our findings, we want to make sure that those communities that are overburdened with the traffic-related air pollution are truly benefiting from this climate mitigation effort,” Garcia said.

Solar 3.0: This New Technology Could Change Everything

They are using layering and mirrors to dramatically increase the capabilities of solar power, and techniques to dramatically reduce the size and weight, to the point that a thin plastic film could do more than the bulkiest of solar cells.  We’re getting to the point that it could in theory be added to anything.