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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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Abandoned History: The Apple Electric Car Project, Rest in Peace (2014-2024)

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Shortly thereafter an Apple board member stated Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) suggested the company could build an EV around the time Tesla arrived on the automotive scene in 2008. A product unveiling in 2019 was generally believed. This confirmed Apple still used Lexus vehicles for its testing.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. To a large extent, I wouldn’t be the person I am today if not for the support from the IEEE and IEEE Foundation.”

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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I always knew I wanted to be a specialist: a person that others would go to because they knew something really well,” she says. Higher education is free in Norway, but the global job market in 2010 was still in the doldrums following the 2008 financial crisis. Toward the end of her studies in 2019, she got her big break.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service will be available in Q1 2019. Envoy – Round Trip Car Sharing: Electrify America is also investing in a program with Envoy Technologies, a community-based EV car-share service based at apartment buildings as an amenity. Vehicles can be reserved, picked up and returned to the same location.

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Tesla Model Y continues to lead auto sales in Norway

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This even exceeds the shock result of the Tesla Model 3 from March 2019 (5,315 units), in both volume, and in market share. A similar personal best was gained by its slightly lower volume sibling, the Opel Corsa, just outside the top 20. The Model Y alone took over 38% of Norway’s new passenger auto registrations in March.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S.

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