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New Mexico adopts Clean Cars Rule

Green Car Congress

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board (AQCB) have each adopted the Clean Car Rule after a joint public hearing. —New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Cabinet Secretary James Kenney.

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Tesla-Hertz partnership expands to sixteen new cities

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Tesla and Hertz struck a non-signed deal late last year that would see 100,000 all-electric vehicles from the Elon Musk-headed company make their way to the rental agency. Hertz also clarified to us that Model Ys were included in the original order , and the 100,000 cars were not specifically Model 3 units. Burbank, California.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour

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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe – Heading in a New Direction

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Full disclosure: Hyundai flew me to Albuquerque and put me up in nice hotels both there and in Santa Fe. He did, however, say Land Rover as a brand was part of his inspiration. There are “H” patterns – for Hyundai, naturally – all over the place, most notably in the headlights. The company fed us as well.) There will be a 2.5-liter

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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Notably, it will need to keep astronauts alive, rather than just support a conventional household load, says Rachid Darbali-Zamora , an electrical engineer at Sandia. Lee Rashkin, another electrical engineer at Sandia, says that they are working to define the parameters of the tie-line. “We

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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He received US $1 million as part of the award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of computing. Instead, he became a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he taught for 33 years. For his work, he was honored this year with the 2021 A.M. Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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