Although the title is hyperbolic clickbait, the Toyota CEO announced some news that positions Toyota against the grain in terms of EV production. This video takes a look at what led to this decision and what it could mean for the future of Toyota.
AC Basics: Learn All About Alternating Current
In this video, we’ll teach you about Alternating Current (AC), and how it works. We’ll discuss the types of AC, and how they’re used in everyday life.
The $5000 Electric Motorcycle – Sondors Metacycle Review
The Sondors Metacycle is a $5000 electric motorcycle. It’s a funky highway-capable commuter and the ideal use of electric power. But can the motorbike live up to its own spec sheet?
How Transistors Work
Learn electronics engineering with this video on how transistors work. covering the physics of what happening inside a transistor with simple water analogy.
AC Electrical Generator Basics – How electricity is generate
Electrical generator basics. Learn the basic operation of an electrical generator, learn how magnets are used to generate electricity in a coil of wire. We then cover 3 phase three phase electricity and briefly the star configuration in this video on how electricity is generated.
How does an Electric Motor work? (DC Motor)
Electric motors can seem very mysterious! How do they use electricity to start rotating? Let’s break it down step by step to understand how it works. Topics covered in this video: circuits, current, magnets, electromagnets, armature, commutator, brushes, stator, and rotor. This video only covers DC motors.
How Electricity Actually Work
Although the video does indeed point out that the electrons arrange themselves to establish the necessary fields in the wire, the treatment of the electrons thereafter is set aside for a preference of “the field”. However, as the electrons begin to drift, the only way for the field to maintain its necessary configuration is for the electrons to also continuously shift and move to maintain that field. Guess what? That also requires energy! Energy can also be stored in the charged particle configuration! In other words, if the “energy is in the field”, that energy would quickly dissipate and the field alone could not power the circuit unless the charges continuously rearranged themselves to maintain that field throughout the circuit. The field would not exist, or at least the necessary field to do continuous work would not be maintained without the flow of electronics, the current. Thus the current remains just as fundamental a part of the circuit as the field
Turning Magnetism Into Electricity (Electrodynamics)
Most of our energy isn’t generated chemically like in batteries or by solar panels. Whether, it’s coal, gas, nuclear, wind, or water power; it’s generated by magnetic induction and governed by Faraday’s law from electrodynamics.
Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022
In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk — the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company — digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (Recorded at TED2022 on April 14, 2022)
This live interview includes an excerpt from another exclusive, extended conversation recorded a few days earlier at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory.
How much does an electric car actually cost?
Electric vehicles have long been seen as crucial to moving the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels: Many Americans are too car-addicted to abandon their personal vehicles, and the country is too tethered to its highways and suburbs to make a quick switch to a full-scale European-style public transportation system. (Sorry, mass-transit advocates.) A fleet of EVs, running on clean electricity, could help slash the 28 percent of U.S. emissions that come from transportation. But often, possible EV buyers are understandably scared off by the higher sticker price. But what about over the lifetime of a vehicle? Shannon Osaka digs into this tricky question.
If you’re curious about our methodology, we used a 2020 report from Consumer Reports, showing the difference in lifetime fueling costs of Crossovers/SUVs ($11,200) and maintenance ($4,600) for all models.