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EV Batteries: They’re Not All The Same

Underneath the hood of an electric vehicle is the car’s battery pack. That lithium-ion battery is where the car stores all its energy. In this video, Popular Science explores the most common battery types used today by automakers: NMC, NCA and LFP. While they might all look the same, there are some big differences between…

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Underneath the hood of an electric vehicle is the car’s battery pack. That lithium-ion battery is where the car stores all its energy. In this video, Popular Science explores the most common battery types used today by automakers: NMC, NCA and LFP. While they might all look the same, there are some big differences between them. We explain how building batteries made from more abundant materials like iron, allows batteries to be more cost effective, more sustainable and more durable than batteries that rely on critical materials like nickel and cobalt.

We partnered with @ournextenergy to show how lithium iron phosphate (LFP) is making a big difference in the future of electrification. Learn more at .

Video presented by Our Next Energy.

#electricvehicles #battery101 #EVBatteries #LithiumIronPhosphate #SustainableEnergy #EVTechnology #BatteryChemistries #EnergyDensity #CostEffective #Durability #PopularScience #GreenTransportation #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechExplained #RenewableEnergy #OurNextEnergy #FutureOfMobility #Electrification #GreenRevolution #lfp #batterytechnology #futureofmobility #onebattery #arieslfp

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  1. MoutainMan3000

    July 1, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    This video is junk and the writer should be embarrassed.

  2. xlargetophat

    July 5, 2023 at 7:09 am

    Lfp sucks.. heavier

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How to Make a YouTube Video in 1987

Decades before software like Premiere and iMovie made video editing cheap, easy, and accessible for everyone, the only option was chaining a conglomerate of vintage 80s technology – multiple camcorders or VCRs and a TV – to craft custom analog video. Then the Videonics system changed tech history forever. With professional-grade setups costing up to…

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Decades before software like Premiere and iMovie made video editing cheap, easy, and accessible for everyone, the only option was chaining a conglomerate of vintage 80s technology – multiple camcorders or VCRs and a TV – to craft custom analog video. Then the Videonics system changed tech history forever.

With professional-grade setups costing up to six figures at the time, the Videonics brought simple editing to the masses at a tiny fraction of the price… in theory. The reality of the Videonics video editing system was a jumbled mess of retro tech that took a near-miracle to make your kid’s 8th grade jazz band concert video look a little more polished.

And getting it all to work over 35 years later? It took 8 VCRs, 2 camcorders, 3 Videonics units and 4 remotes to create a 1987-era YouTube masterpiece. But in the end, it revealed the beauty and drive of the first-generation analog filmmakers and videographers who made YouTube possible for all of us.

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The $68 Million Instant Movie Disaster (Polavision)

Nearly 50 years ago, the Polavision camera blended Polaroid’s revolutionary instant film with on-demand home video – and the result was a landmark advance in analog technology that would become a mystery of science and a winding international journey into vintage tech. Because now, generations after Edwin Land bet his half-century legacy of innovation and…

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Nearly 50 years ago, the Polavision camera blended Polaroid’s revolutionary instant film with on-demand home video – and the result was a landmark advance in analog technology that would become a mystery of science and a winding international journey into vintage tech.

Because now, generations after Edwin Land bet his half-century legacy of innovation and the company he founded on the success of the Polavision, I need to figure out how to get the thing to work… and only one man in the world could help me.

I traveled to Vienna, Austria to meet Florian “Doc” Kaps – the man behind ‘The Impossible Project’ that saved Polaroid from the dustbin of history. With his guidance and his private store of old Polaroid video tapes, perhaps I would be able to record a modern YouTube video with my vintage Polavision camera.

Through it all, Doc immersed me into his world of analog technology and the philosophy behind his mission to re-integrate analog into our daily lives. We cut lacquer records, we felt the fires of an analog restaurant, and we spent too much time trying to resurrect a relic of the past – because technology, vintage and modern, is all about people.

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We Mapped a Fly’s BRAIN

A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255 individual neurons and 50 million connections. Popular Science, “Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time”: #science #sciencefacts #weirdscience #biology #research

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A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255 individual neurons and 50 million connections.

Popular Science, “Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time”:

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