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Tesla building permits reveal unannounced ‘Lithium Lab’

Teslarati

Tesla has applied for a set of building permits regarding a previously unannounced “Lithium Lab,” which is likely an upcoming R&D facility. It’s no secret that Tesla has been diving head first into developing more dependable lithium supplies, even going as far as opening its own lithium refinery in Southern Texas.

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Tesla is redefining the “Made in China” moniker with Giga Shanghai: report

Teslarati

.” In a way, such labels were quite fair considering that China had focused its exports in the past on low-quality vehicles that were sold dirt-cheap in developing countries. Outlook Weekly, sub of China’s major news media Xinhua News, published an article entitled “What Exactly Does Tesla Bring”.

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New metal-free ORR catalyst outperforms platinum in fuel cell

Green Car Congress

Researchers from South Korea, Case Western Reserve University and University of North Texas have synthesized new inexpensive and easily produced metal-free catalysts—edge-selectively halogenated graphene nanoplatelets (XGnPs)—that can perform better than platinum in oxygen-reduction reactions. —Jeon et al.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

Cars That Think

In one corner stood the defending champion, Texas Instruments. This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." and Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas, Texas. in Dallas, Texas.) in Austin, Texas: “We could have done the work in two weeks if they had let us sign nondisclosure agreements.”

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. It appeared in the March 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. It’s only sand.”

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. Remember its PURE D.C.

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