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Battery breakthrough: Part two

In 2019 the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Akira Yoshino, John Goodenough and Stanley Whittingham for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Sony produced...

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Plus ça change…

My younger colleagues often ridicule me about just how long I’ve been a car designer. Did I carve out my designs on stone tablets? Were my earliest three-dimensional models made...

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Battery breakthrough: Part one

As ‘Electric Saint’, Stuart Copeland and Jonathan Moore’s new opera about the life of electrical pioneers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, premieres at Kunstfest Weimar...

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Farewell my friend

Normally the launch of a new SUV would not warrant words such as these. We might show the pictures on the Instagram site, try to think of a relevant comment or two and look forward to...

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Used and abused

Years ago, when I was a trainee ‘sparkie’ designing various electronic gubbins for Nineties Nissans, my mate Paul was responsible for seats and seatbelts. He still is, in fact...

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King of the car park

One of the greatest perks of being a parent to small children is the parking spaces. Yes, yes, the hugs, first steps, re-reading Thomas the Tank Engine and feeling as funny as Robin Williams...

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The life of a durability tester

The middle of the night, the middle of winter and the middle of your shift. Even at this hour, the sky inky black, the proving ground is abuzz with activity...

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Heroes and dummies

Have you ever wondered why taller folks find it so hard to fit into older sports cars? Take Ti's own Andrew Frankel. He’s a tall, but not off-the-scales 6ft 3-ish (192 cm)...

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