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Day: March 7, 2017

Solo Electric Commuter Car Set To Cut Traffic Pollution & Congestion

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Electra Meccanica unveiled a new miniature electric commuter car to help reduce traffic congestion during rush hour. The Solo has been dubbed an ‘electric commuter car’ which is environmentally-friendly. However, it’s bizarre three-wheeled design, reminiscent of the Reliant Robin, is not such an appealing option.

Makers claim it isn’t intended to replace the family car, and is meant for single use. Solo’s designers evaluated and determined the number of people who commute back and forth work alone in their large cars. That is why it was designed to have a single seat for the driver, with enough space in the back to place your personal belongings, shopping bags and valuables. Solo’s small size allows it to reach a driving range of 100 miles in just one full charge. Considering the average daily round trip to work is around 40 miles it means one charge could last for two days of commuting.

Electra Meccanica, according to Hybrid Cars, is based in Canada. It is the electric division of InterMeccanica—a company that has been building custom vehicles and car parts since 1959. The company supposes that the Solo will become the commuter vehicle of choice for the masses, thus, delivering them a non-polluting and very economical offering. Furthermore, the creators state that the electric car is fun to drive and will become so familiar on roads that the quirky design will grow on consumers.

The Bold Idea on the Electric Commuter Car

The Solo houses a 16.1-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery which provides power to operate the back wheel. The motor produces 82 horsepower which will take you from 0 to 60 mph in less than eight seconds, with a top speed of 80 mph. With an asking price of around $15,000, the Solo is a cheap addition to the electric car market. The size of the car is enough to fit into car spaces allocated for motorcycles. Also, the battery can be fully charged in just three hours. Although this little run around may get you to work on time, enabling you to zip around traffic and fit into hard to reach spaces, the safety implications are yet to be realized.

It’s a bold idea that has many positive attributes, but it remains to be seen what will happen to the unlucky driver if they are hit by a Mini Cooper—or even worse a bulky Sedan.

Are People Buying Into The Vegetarian Alternative?

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Last year, we raised the bold question of whether a new vegetarian alternative to meat could revolutionize the food industry by taking on beef burgers.

Experts at Impossible Foods devised the Impossible Burger to deliver the exact taste, look, texture, smell and nutritional value of beef. By carefully selecting proteins, amino acids, fats and vitamins from plants to create the burgers, founders claimed it was a game changer for non-meat products. Impossible Foods found that by using wheat and potato proteins, coconut oil and key nutrients, along with a “magic ingredient” of Heme, the product inherits the exact and distinct attributes of beef – and consumers would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

And, how right they were.

Now, after less than a year since our last report, we look at how far the Impossible Burger has come and the bold impact it has already made on the food industry.

The Impossible Burger is fast-becoming a familiar brand in the United States, cropping up in restaurants all over California and New York and other locations are planned throughout 2017 and beyond. A new factory has been built in Oakland, California which will start to produce the burgers en masse. In fact, Impossible Foods invested roughly $108 million on the development of this facility.

In February, Impossible Foods secured a partnership with its first national burger chain Bareburger, and will provide the Impossible Burger on its vegan menu.

The burger has become so likened to meat products that the company is advocating its position on menus next to beef and lamb as opposed to being placed on vegetarian menus. The firm is expanding so fast, and the product is becoming more and more popular with customers that by 2020, experts believe Impossible Burger will become a global food phenomenon.

Investors certainly believe in the product. Founded in 2011 by Patrick O. Brown, M.D, Impossible Foods received financial backing from the likes of Bill Gates, Google Ventures, and UBS, to name but a few.

What’s more, by using only plant products, Impossible Foods is dramatically reducing “the resources needed to feed the world’s population and free land for wildlife and biodiversity.”

Damage to livestock and the havoc farming sites cause to the environment can be dramatically reduced by the widespread adoption of food development breakthroughs such as those of Impossible Foods products.

Not only is this bold idea taking off in a big way, but its set to revolutionize the food industry by not only producing a healthy and environmentally alternative to beef but is also animal friendly.

Tapping The Power Of Big Data and Transportation To Revolutionize the Industry

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Inside Big Data reports that HyperXite has tapped into the power of CycleCloud, a software suite focusing on ‘Big Data’ for complex computing applications, to propel their developments in the big data and transportation industry. CycleCloud, developed by Cycle Computing, is being leveraged by HyperXite to build and develop a new wave of vehicles that is faster, cheaper, safer and more energy-efficient than current cars, trains, boats etc. Bold Business looks into

HyperXite is a company that focuses on building the next generation of transportation.  It makes use of Big Data and complex theories to examine engineering challenges. The company has done everything it can to hone and improve the levitation, braking systems and suspension for future transportation. They have made several modifications on the model they are currently working on to solve issues on drag, lift and mass. They are also working on maximizing speed and efficiency.

Earlier, the HyperXite team contended in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod contest. The Hyperloop idea was first broached by billionaire and tech genius Elon Musk and his company SpaceX.  It is a passenger and freight transport that makes use of a pod-like vehicle which is propelled through a near-vacuum tube at astonishing speeds.  The innovative idea isn’t far-fetched and a lot of companies believe that this concept can be implemented in the very near future.

According to HyperXite’s Simulation Lead Nima Mohseni, Cycle Computing has helped the team’s endeavor to optimize and economize vehicles of the future. She added that CycleCloud was the solution they needed to compress and condense their timeline while achieving the powerful computational results they required. Mohseni also said the software made a significant difference in the team’s ability to complete their work. Indeed, CycleCloud shines at this type of computational depth.

More Details Amid the Discussion on Big Data and Transportation

For their vehicle of the future, HyperXite is studying the fuselage’s fluid dynamics. A complete simulation would necessitate more than 5,000 CPU hours. This is where CycleCloud enters the picture. Earlier benchmarks showed excellent compatibility with Microsoft Azure. It can handle up to 256 cores working concurrently. What that means technically is that it can use multiple cores over multiple machines in a cluster working towards a single task. It is this computational ability, which could revolutionize the transportation industry.

Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing notes that CycleCloud excels at this kind of computational depth. He emphasized that their software brings structure and order, as well as huge time savings, to the HyperXite team. In turn, he says they are bringing the world closer to achieving a new concept in travel.

These developments in transportation are just a few among the many existing developments today—alongside the likes of  Dubai opting for alternative means of transport such as flying drone taxis and the U.S. looking at reformed railway systems. The use of software—and notably, also hardware and mechanical developments—could see the future of transportation arrive sooner than we think.

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