For some time now, environmental friendliness has increasingly become the most important factor in cars. Electric, definitely, but also as compact as possible, economical in power consumption, and...
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The name Piëch has been well known within the automotive industry for four generations. No doubt it is probably Ferdinand Karl Piëch, the major Porsche shareholder and former Chairman of the Board...
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The forests around the globe are dwindling. One of the main reasons for this is forest clearance – and things are not getting any better. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has just...
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Two days ago, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe launched the “Sea Mile Project”, wherein a self-driving bus is being tested in everyday traffic on a 600-meter-long route “Am Tegeler...
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A little less than a month ago, the first prototype of the Lightyear One – the world’s first solar car – was unveiled in the Netherlands. Plans are that it will debut in 2021....
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How do you build a racing car? How do you manage a team? What does it take to build and sell a car? What is the best way to do business? How does marketing work? For some time already, one could...
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Everyone knows that problem: You order pants, a shirt, a jacket, exactly your size and when the piece arrives, it is either too big, too small, too tight, too wide… And you send it back. On...
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Without nanotechnology, hardly anything is possible in many areas of everyday life anymore, because, with the help of nanotechnology, techniques, structures, and systems can be developed that give...
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What happens when people listen to something? How do they distinguish between sounds and spoken words? Speech is distinguished by two characteristics: the voice of the speaker and the linguistic...
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For decades, the galaxy NGC 1316 has been a popular object for research among astronomers and yet, it still poses a mystery to scientists. The galaxy in the Fornax constellation, about 60 million...
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An international research team has achieved an important breakthrough within the field of stem cell research. They have obtained a type of stem cell from pig and human cells that corresponds to the...
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It looks like nobody can beat the Technical University of Munich’s Hyperloop group. For the fourth time in a row, the students from Germany won the worldwide Hyperloop Competition in Los Angeles....
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In the third and last part of our small series about electric cars, battery or hydrogen-powered, we compare these two concepts once again, look at the respective dangers, and draw a conclusion as to...
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After having dealt in part 1 of our brief series with what German car manufacturers have to offer or are planning in the field of electric cars, be it battery or hydrogen, in part 2 we take a closer...
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At the moment, the battery-powered car is still the main focus of attention among German car manufacturers as the means of transport for the future. For a few weeks, however, the word...
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Fifty years ago, almost to the day, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the moon. Since then, NASA has had six more manned lunar missions, of which the last one took...
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Due to the new, additional tax planned by the German government, the issue of CO2 has become number one again in recent days. Heating and motoring in particular shall gradually become more...
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Alternative energies are on the rise – on the road and in sports on four and two wheels, and now also on the water. Electric power units, solar energy, hydrogen, everything is better than...
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SoundEnergy is a Dutch start-up that has invented an air conditioning system which requires neither electricity nor a coolant, the THEAC-25. The system converts heat into cold using thermal acoustic...
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Every year since 1993, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has attracted around 180,000 spectators from all over the world. The fans who made their way to West Sussex, England in 2019 were witnesses to a...
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The Berlin-based start-up PTScientists has ambitious plans. It wants to be the first German company to send its own lunar module into space. Between 2020 and 2022, it is supposed to land on the Moon...
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What happens to discarded sea containers? Sometimes, they are used as storage space by moving companies in their yard, or some resourceful architects even assemble them like a Lego house and convert...
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While the Italian volcano Stromboli spits fire on Earth and pyro-fireworks were ignited in the USA on Independence Day, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a fireworks display that no...
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February 2018 saw the launch of the MotoE World Cup, the world’s first electric motorcycle racing series, heralding “a new era” in motorcycle racing. After the increasing...
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There are around 4,000 companies in Germany within the metalworking industry who manufacture laser and flexible components. Aside from that, there is a huge amount of companies who process these...
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