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MIT Battery Research To Enable 'Electric Phaetons'
   John Jacob Astor dreamed of electric cars that would serve us in 1894; all he needed was a really good battery technology.
Aptera Electric Vehicle So Cool It's On Star Trek
   Just the kind of flivver James Tiberius Kirk would need to be BMOSAC - big man on Starfleet Academy campus.
Personal Wind Turbines And Rooftop Windmills
   Interesting strategy for a personal supply of renewable energy has been around for about a century.
Tesla Model S Not Your Grandfather's Electric Phaeton
   Tesla has finally unveiled their electric car for the rest of us; take a look at the future of the electric Phaeton.
Geoengineering To Mitigate Climate Change
   This policy statement focuses on large-scale efforts to geoengineer the climate system to counteract the consequences of increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Multi-Target Photo-Radar System
   No more safety in numbers when speeding, thanks to this Cordon system.
Tesla Model S Declared Car Of The Year By Motor Trend
   'They can therefore roam over the roads of the entire hemisphere [combining] the sensations of coasting with the interest of seeing the country well.'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Speeding Ticket Robots To Cite Autonomous Cars?
   'There is no danger of a vehicle's speed exceeding that allowed in the section in which it happens to be...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Tesla's Supercharger Station Plan
   'To recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Tesla's 100th Supercharger Station!
   'Recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village..'- John Jacob Astor IV. 1894.
Harvesting Energy From Internal Resonance
   'Sometimes a man has a windmill on his roof...' - John Jacob Astor, 1894.
Tired Of Speeders On Your Block? DIY Speed Tracker!
   'There is no danger of a vehicle's speed exceeding that allowed in the section in which it happens to be...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Tesla Unveils Affordable Model 3 Electric Car
   'They can therefore roam over the roads of the entire hemisphere [combining] the sensations of coasting with the interest of seeing the country well.'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Geoengineering The Atmosphere For Climate Change
   '...a uniform temperature for each degree of latitude the year round.' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Korean Tesla Model S Video 'Excelsior' Is Indeed Our Motto
   'Improving man by bringing him close to Nature, while they combine the sensations of coasting with the interest of seeing the country well...'
Ionity Ultra-fast Charging Station Network
   'Recharge the batteries... in almost every town and village...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
IONITY Opens First 10 Fast-Charging Stations
   'Recharge the batteries... in almost every town and village...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Musk Declares Tesla Supercharger Capacity Will Double By Next Year
   'Recharge the batteries... in almost every town and village...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Charging An Electric Car In 2019 (Video), 1912 (Photo) And 1894 (Fiction)
   'Recharge the batteries... in almost every town and village...'- John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Fast Charging A Bus In 20 Seconds
   '... in almost every town and village.' - John Jacob Astory, 1894.
EVs To Be Made In ICE Detroit-Hamtramck Plant
   'With hollow but immensely strong galvanically treated aluminum frames and pneumatic or cushion tires, they [can run] without recharging for several days.' - John Jacob Astor, IV, 1894.
Tesla's 20,000 Superchargers
   ''To recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village...' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Comercial Airlock 'Bishop' Now On ISS
   'They put the bones and the glass can that had contained the soup into the double-doored partition or vestibule...' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Shine On, Portable Wind Turbine
   'Sometimes a man has a windmill on his roof...' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Aeromine Technologies Rooftop Wind Energy
   '...a windmill on his roof for light and heat.' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
LIAM F1 UWT Clever Rooftop Windmill
   '...a windmill on his roof...' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.
Tesla Electric 'Giga Train' Operational In Germany
   '...the cars are wedge-shaped at both ends.' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894.

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