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Maxwell Sangulani Chikumbutso's car that doesn't need to be charged

Maxwell has recently caught the world’s attention because of his invention that defies physics. He was able to discover there was boundless energy in the sky in the form of radio waves. This energy is in the form of a microwave that can be transformed into electrical power. The government rebuffed his former inventions, and when he was asked why he was treated like a criminal during a interview, his response was, “The African mind has been programmed to mistrust African ingenuity, and as a result, many within the government circles deem me a con artist, not worthy a second of their precious time.”  With the need for a heavy investment, Maxwell came to a Mozambican businessman who trusted his invention. He was willing to pour millions of dollars into this investment, and because of this, Maxwell was able to create a project that reduced the power of over 300 homes. Maxwell soon got the idea of making a car that doesn’t require charging using his concept of “electromagnetic waves and...
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How Does the Deepseek and OpenAi issue affect cars?

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  Recently, an AI company called Deepseek passed OpenAi in downloads and is currently #1 on the app store. This is very impressive because DeepSeek is a 7 Million dollar company, while OpenAi is 157 Billion. This rivalry could affect cars. Here's how: 1. Ai-powered autonomous vehicles AI-powered vehicles like Waymo or Tesla might switch their AI providers for better self-driving technology. Autonomous driving algorithms may be affected if Deepseek Ai or Open Ai restricts their AI models  due to disputes. 2. AI Licensing and Restrictions If OpenAi has to restrict its AI models due to competitive concerns, many cars will have to find alternatives for their navigation, voice assistance, or  predictive maintenance. If DeepSeek develops superior AI but faces geopolitical or licensing issues, some automakers might lose access to better AI tools. 3. Data and Cloud Dependencies If such restrictions or competition creates service disruption, then it could be a problem fo...
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The Basics of Cars

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  The Engine The engine burns a mixture of fuel, like gasoline or diesel, and air in a controlled way to create energy. This energy is then used to move parts of the engine, which ultimately powers the car's wheels. Most car engines operate using a four-stroke cycle.  It starts with the intake valve opening, and a piston moving down. This creates a vacuum, which pulls in a mixture of air and fuel into the combustion chamber. The intake valve closes, and the piston moves up. This compresses the air-fuel mixture, making it more explosive. A spark plug ignites the compressed air-fuel mixture and the explosion forces the piston down, creating mechanical energy. The exhaust valve opens, and the piston moves up again. This pushes out the burned or exhaust gases through the exhaust system. The number of pistons determines a car's torque, though it also depends on the kind of car. The Crankshaft converts the pistons' up-and-down motion into rotational motion to power the wheels. Th...
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Summarizing 2024 in the Car Industry Pt.2

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  Best Family SUV: 2024 Hyundai Palisade      The Hyundai Palisade's key features are its Spacious 3-row seating, High-quality interior materials, and Advanced safety technology. More on its safety is that it uses cameras and radars to detect and prevent collisions. With the same technology, it has blind-spot collision warnings and preventions. It also has lane control assist which steers you back onto the right lane if you happen to drift off. A common type of cruise in many cars that is great for long trips is smart Cruise Control with Stop & Go (SCC). It makes sure that you keep a steady distance from the car in front of you, and slows down and adjusts to speeds in traffic. Best Sports Car: 2024 Porsche 911 Turbo      The 911 Turbo combines extraordinary performance, everyday usability, and iconic design. It’s the perfect blend of luxury and speed. Its key features include 572 horsepower from a 3.0L twin-turbo flat-six engine...
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Summarizing 2024 in the Car Industry

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  Best Car- Toyota Camry     The Toyota Camry was voted the best car of 2024 because of its  User-friendly infotainment system, Standard Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ (advanced safety features), and Hybrid options for fuel efficiency. Toyota is an amazingly reliable brand, and it was a no-brainer that the Camry was overall the best car. A breakdown of its Standard Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ includes many new updates. It uses its front camera and radars to detect other things, has access to its brakes, and can stop a possible collision. Another safety update that is becoming popular in cars is lane control. All it does is help you from drifting off into different lanes while driving by pulling the wheel back. Using its cameras, it has many alerts including collision, speed limit, and parking. Best Luxury Car-  2024 Mercedes-Benz S-Class      The 2024 Mercedes-Benz S-Class was voted the best luxury car for the following reasons: the MBUX inf...
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Apollo ie Evo- The best Hypercar?

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  A certified fan favorite Hypercar is definitely the Apollo ie Evo. It looks insane, just like other Apollo models. Based off statements from official Apollo employees, the car will be priced at between US$2,500,000-US$3,000,000. is one of 10 Intensa Emozione hypercars built by German sports car manufacturer Apollo Automobil. Though street-legal, the outlandish GT1-inspired IE was constructed in conjunction with race car development specialist HWA. The car was designed by the same designer as the Apollo Intensa Emozione, and the Apollo Arrow, Jowyn Wong. It features a special gradient paint job, which changes from a bright red to a bright orange depending on the angle and lighting. It comes with a full range of active aerodynamics including a large retractable and adjustable rear spoiler, aero stabilizers and triangular air intakes that are clearly visible from the sides. The Appolo runs on the same modified version of Ferrari derived 6.3 L  F140  V12 engi...
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Hybrid is being removed from Rally1?

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  The World Rally Championship has announced that it will drop hybrid units from Rally1 cars in 2025. As reported by Autosport earlier, the 130kW plug-in hybrid system that was first introduced in 2022 along with the current-generation Rally1 cars has been axed due to rising costs. The company stipulated that all hybrid units will have to be stripped apart and sent back to its factory for full repair if they suffered three shock errors over 15G or one over 25G. Fia’s chief Technical and Safety Officer Xavier Mestelan-Pinon said that the current units supplies “are no longer in the best interest of the WRC”. The matter was discussed between all stakeholders, with a decision taken ahead of next week’s finale in Japan. To maintain the same power to weight ratio as 2024, the minimum weight of Rally1 cars will be lowered from 1260kg to 1180 kg. The air restrictor size has also been reduced from 36mm to 35mm. Although this was news for 2025, the thought took a lot more consideration and ...
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Aeromobil’s flying car

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  It was big news when Aeromobil’s flying car came out in 2013, and it has been quiet for a while. The vehicle was intended for car enthusiasts and wealthy people. The reason they quieted down was because of lack of investments. That was a really sad moment because it took about 20 years to design and make the main design. The prototype was constructed by the AeroMobil Team based in Bratislava and led by co-founders Štefan Klein and Juraj Vaculík, advised by inventor Dean Kamen. As of 2013, there were 4 different versions of the vehicle, but their wing design wasn’t very good. In 2014, when the product first crashed, they said there was no expected due date for the vehicle to be done. They did say that they hoped for a prototype before 2018. On April 6th, 2016, they started a fundraiser and raised 3.2 million USD which helped the company climb back up. Not too long after, on 20 April 2017, AeroMobil s.r.o. unveiled the production model of the vehicle at Top Marq...
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Car controlled with a ps5 controller?

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  Calling all gamers! In the live event, Izumi Kawanishi drove the Sony Vision to himself using a PS5 controller! Sony first announced the Sony Vision-S in 2020, and it’s the ultimate gaming car. The Vision-S platform is fully electric and designed to emphasize the user experience of autonomous driving. Sony has partnered with Honda to make this work. The first testing of the Vision was in Australia. The three main concepts/goals of it were safety, entertainment, and adaptability. Sony is already well known for entertainment, its safety is supposed to be implemented through autonomous driving, and its adaptability refers to the planned continuous evolution of features as well as contributions to environmental sustainability. Up front inside the car is a 10.1-inch touchscreen with 5G internet, allowing passengers to stream and play games with PlayStation game consoles. It includes 360-degree Reality Audio made by Sony, which will surely sound amazing. The sound system does the same ...
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How the Cybertruck is surviving

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  The Cybertruck has been around for over a year now, and there has been 1 Millon+ orders. Tesla purchased a Cybertruck factory in texas called the ¨GigaFactory¨ and it’s worth about 8 million dollars. The Cybertruck has angered many celebrities for the wait time they have, and some just canceled their order. Read on to find out more about Cybertrucks. The overall safety of the Cybertruck is not too bad, but if you get hit by a small sedan coming at you, you’re almost guaranteed to be fine. Tesla has made the Cybertruck in a way that all of the battery weight is at the bottom of the vehicle. Because of this, the truck has a very low rate of rolling over on impact. The Cybertruck has a 123 kWh 800 V lithium-ion battery, which powers the windows, doors, touchscreen, and other low voltage vehicle systems when the high voltage Battery is unavailable. The 48V battery also provides a redundant source of power for critical systems (such as power steering). The Cybertruck also has bulletpr...
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Pros and Cons of Electric Cars

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  Pros (Electric Car Advantages) As gas prices increase, electric cars are becoming a smarter choice worldwide. The Tesla Model Y currently holds the top spot for electric cars, with Toyota as a close runner-up due to its outstanding quality. The average price of an electric car in the United States is about $53,000. Electric cars are also better for the environment, as they run on electricity, producing zero emissions. Tesla has a smart solution for one of the major concerns with electric cars: running out of charge in a remote area. They’ve built in an AI system that estimates charge over distances and shows charging spots along the route. Luckily, like gas cars, electric cars have a reserve amount of miles, so even if you are low on charge, you should still be able to drive a short distance. Cons (Gas Car Advantages) The top gas-powered car in the U.S. is the Toyota Prius, as expected. Many people would agree that Honda deserves a similar ranking for the Accord’s performance. Th...
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The Rise of Autonomous Cars

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  Elon Musk recently revealed the Tesla Robotaxi. The Robotaxi is a two-row hatchback that drives entirely by itself. The main controversy surrounding it is that it has absolutely no manual controls—no brakes, no accelerator. It’s like sitting in the back row of an Uber, except you’re in the front seat of your own car! Speaking of “your own car,” Musk also announced that the Robotaxi (also known as the Cybercab) will be available for purchase. The Robotaxi is expected to be released around 2026 or 2027 with a base price of just $30,000. Because the car is electric, it will be relatively cheap to operate, with estimated costs of 20 cents per mile. When Elon mentioned the Cybercab’s affordable price, he added, “I tend to be a little optimistic.” In 2019, he had also predicted that autonomous cars would be widespread by the end of 2020, but that didn’t quite come true. The Robotaxi can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds. Although it looks like a two-row car, it actually only h...
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“Mercedes Airlines”

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  A car that every car nerd knows not to mess with, is the Mercedes-Benzes clr, also known as the flying car. The Mercedes CLR GTR is a remarkable racing car celebrated for its outstanding performance and sleek design. Powered by a potent 6.0-liter V12 engine, it delivers over 600 horsepower. Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h takes approximately 3.7 seconds, with a remarkable top. speed surpassing 320 km/h. We’ve all heard about the BMW V12 LMR’s great victory at Le Mans, but it wasn’t the race winner that captured headlines in 1999. A set of spectacular crashes stole the show that year, when Mercedes’ prototype CLRs kept launching into the air, backflipping wildly, and landing in a mangled mess. Three such crashes occurred throughout the Le Mans race weekend, forcing Mercedes to bow out of the race just three hours into the 24-hour slog. Twenty years on, the horror of those flipping Mercedes remains fresh in our minds. Many people joke that the car was “too ...
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Why is Toyota dominating other cars?

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  Did you know Toyota started as a textile manufacturer before transitioning to automobile production in 1933, eventually becoming one of the world’s largest car manufacturers? Toyota is very successful because of their Reliability and Quality, their Strong Financial Position and their Broad Product Range. Read further to uncover more. One of the main reasons people like Toyotas so much is because of their reliability-consistently earning high marks in various automotive quality and dependability surveys. The brand’s commitment to engineering excellence and rigorous quality control processes has resulted in vehicles that often exceed 200,000 miles with minimal issues. This reliability extends across their diverse range of models, making Toyota a trusted choice for consumers seeking long-lasting, dependable vehicles. Toyota can also maintain a strong financial position (Unlike lucid) and 11.2 million vehicles were sold worldwide in 2023. In 2023 Tesla sold   1.8 million vehicle...
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