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The Future of Transportation: Electric Vehicles and Beyond
A plain-language look at how electric vehicles work, what shapes range and charging, and which other changes may reshape how people and goods move.
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Mobility and Energy
Electric vehicles, renewables, self-driving cars and drones.
From Concept to Reality: The Story of Autonomous Drones
A general history of unmanned aircraft, from early target planes to today's partly autonomous drones, with what they do and how the rules work.
From Concept to Reality: The Story of Self-Driving Cars
How driver assistance and autonomy research developed, what the levels of automation mean, and why fully self-driving cars remain a hard problem.
The Future of Energy: A Digital Experiment in Renewable Energy
A thought exercise on renewable energy: the main sources, why storage and grids matter, and what remains uncertain. No experiment or data of our own.
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