While traction batteries are heavy, and mass is bad for acceleration and agility, the lower center-of-gravity often compensates with higher levels of cornering, especially when a car wears rubber like the Signature Performance edition's sticky 21-inch summer tires.
For example, NanoSonic in Blacksburg, Virginia, has created metallic rubber, which flexes and stretches like rubber but conducts electricity like a solid metal.
About 40 large blocks of a rubber-like substance, believed to be from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean, have washed up on European coasts.
If you dig your foot into the surface and remove some of the clay, you will notice that the underlying surface is a hard rubber-like mat.
The company has created a slim bracelet, the UP band, that contains a wealth of sensors and a rechargeable battery all attached to a flexible steel frame enclosed in a special, rubber-like coating.
The nanotubes are mixed into a compound called "bucky gel" to prevent clumping, and after some rubber-like flourinated copolymer is mixed in and it's all poured onto a glass plate, holes are punched in the material to better flexibility.
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To encourage this shift, they issued a raft of incentives for forest conservation, such as tax breaks for non-timber forest products like rubber, palm hearts and nuts.
Scrum-half Jace Van Dijk, who set-up two tries, was hammered to the ground in a crunching tackle with two minutes to go and got up only for his legs to look like rubber.
This is a serious task for board compensation committees, which, like their audit committee counterparts, will need to ensure their members have the skills to evaluate alternatives to traditional options and the independence to act on behalf of shareholders, not like rubber stamps for executives.
Even a small gift, like a rubber sleeve to protect a BlackBerry, can spur unease.
The strange shocks were from strands of tendon snapping loose, rolling up inside his arm like broken rubber bands.
With that he hops on to Take Charge Indy like a rubber band, the Paint Stripper doing what he does best.
Perhaps it just goes to show that in business, strange things happen - like a rubber boot maker becoming mobile phone company number one.
We don't usually think of "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee as an effects filmmaker, but he gave us the romantic swordplay above swaying bamboo forests in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and, less happily, "Hulk" bouncing across the desert like a rubber ball.
He anchored the boat on the shore and tied on a 6-inch Castaic swimbait, a big soft rubber lure that looked exactly like a trout.
They have helped test the impact of nonlethal munitions like plastic and rubber bullets and have helped determine the best kind of footwear for land-mine clearance teams.
The hybrid design which Mr Jubb has come up with uses a solid fuel called hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, a form of synthetic rubber used to make things like aircraft tyres.
In that procedure, doctors put a silicone tube, which is like a big rubber band, around the top of your stomach, restricting the amount of food you can take in.
Ion's also kindly included a little rubber orthotic insert for smaller devices like the iPod touch.
And pieces like the intricately carved rubber car tyres contrast at once with the luxurious setting, but their beauty and craftsmanship actually resonate with richness of their surroundings.
But Berwick is expected to preside over evolutionary changes whereby the public program becomes less of a rubber-stamp payer and more like an HMO where claims can be rejected.
The complex is a patchwork of various connected buildings added over the years, filled with a warren of hallways and quirky features such as the World of Rubber museum, conveyor belt-like "speed ramps" that were Goodyear-made hybrids of escalators and moving walkways, and a room filled with models of Goodyear plants.
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Someone close to me just gave me a rubber smartphone cover that makes my phone look like an old cassette tape.
Supply of things like base metals, oil and rubber is crimped after years of underinvestment in mines and oilfields and farms, he says, so prices are heading up.
He tells me enthusiastically about a new sort of shoe by ECCO Golf (worn by Fred Couples), which looks like a boat shoe and has rubber dimples instead of spikes, allowing for regular ambling without all that clatter.
Beneath it too, sweating like a trooper in a thick body-stocking of foam rubber, was Ben Chapman.
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