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Aptera raises $40 million to bring solar electric car with up to 1,000 miles of range to production

June 6, 2022
Aptera announced that it raised $40 million to bring its solar electric car with up to 1,000 miles of range to production later this year. A lot of people got into electric vehicles for their efficiency, and there’s nothing more efficient than Aptera’s solar electric vehicle (SEV). Thanks to an extremely lightweight three-wheel design and a drag coefficient (Cd) of only 0.13, the Aptera SEV…
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Qiantu unveils K20 $13,000 two-seat electric car

June 6, 2022
Qiantu has unveiled a new two-seat electric car with up to 500 km (300 miles) of range and a starting price equivalent to just $13,000. We reported on Qiantu’s all-electric roadster K50 when they unveiled the vehicle in China back in 2016. The company is a subsidiary…
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Solid Power begins solid-state battery pilot before testing with Ford and BMW in late 2022

June 6, 2022
EV-scale solid-state battery cells have come one step closer to reality in Louisville, Colorado, where Solid Power announced it will begin pilot manufacturing of solid-state cells. The completed installation of the production pilot line will allow Solid Power to produce silicon anode, solid-state battery cells for internal testing before delivering them to automotive partners BMW and Ford to…
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Photos of Christian the Lion Who Lived in London in the Swinging 60s

June 6, 2022
A set of surreal photographs of a lion named Christian living in a small flat in London during the 1960s are to be auctioned off next week. The photographs that show the lion eating steak, riding around London in a convertible, and taking a trip to the English seaside, will be sold by Sworders auction house. An African Lion in London Christian the Lion was bought from Harrods for…
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Apple iOS 16 Enhances the Intelligence of its Camera

June 6, 2022
Apple has announced that iOS 16 will bring new levels of intelligence to the camera as well as options that families will have to share photos with each other. Enhancements to Live Text and Visual Look Up Apple says iOS 16 will make its Live Text and Visual Look…
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Gear in this story

June 6, 2022
After a four-year break, Fujifilm has an X-H model in its lineup again. But the X-H2S (left) is not quite a like-for-like replacement: that’s expected in September. When we were briefed on the X-H1, back in 2018, Fujifilm put emphasis on the idea it was intended as a stills/video hybrid. It had the most advanced video specs then seen on an X-series camera, gained the in-body stabilization…
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