Danish company KiteX is using a Kickstarter campaign to sell its Wind Catcher, an adventure-friendly portable wind turbine that can be set up in 15 minutes and used pretty much anywhere. It offers freedom campers, for instance, a whole new independence. Paired with a compatible 3.5kW portable generator (Jackery, Goal Zero, Bluetti and so on), Wind Catcher can produce 600W to … [Read more...] about Portable wind turbine gives campers a free-living boost
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Gone in 60 seconds … thieves cash in on precious exhaust metals
It’s a practice that has been going on in New Zealand for decades – sawing off the catalytic converters in the exhaust system of cars to boost the power of the engine, if only marginally. But now the process has brought in the cops, including America’s FBI and global agency Interpol. Why? Because international criminals are cashing in on precious metals in catalytic … [Read more...] about Gone in 60 seconds … thieves cash in on precious exhaust metals
Aussie company develops world’s first domestic hydrogen battery
It’s being called the world’s first commercially available energy system that uses new or existing rooftop solar panels to create and store hydrogen power in a battery about the size of a large refrigerator. Weighing 324kg, it sits outside the house or business and connects to a solar inverter and the mains water through a purification unit. Inside it, electrolysers use the … [Read more...] about Aussie company develops world’s first domestic hydrogen battery
Cherokee Indian nation wants Jeep to drop ‘Cherokee’ name
The chief of the Cherokee Nation in the USA wants Jeep to stop using the tribe's name on its vehicles. "I'm sure this comes from a place that is well-intended, but it does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car," Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said in a statement to Car and Driver magazine. But Stellantis, the newly … [Read more...] about Cherokee Indian nation wants Jeep to drop ‘Cherokee’ name
EVs are on the move, but where are their batteries going?
The car, over the next 10 years or so, will become a consumer electronics product full of micro-processors. “It will have 80 to 100 software controllers – in the end it will work like a smartphone,” Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess has said. But the switch to battery-electric propulsion from the internal combustion engine will not be as great a change in terms of … [Read more...] about EVs are on the move, but where are their batteries going?