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This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans

Cars That Think

Otherwise, our command-and-control portal can program a vehicle for autonomous activity, such as uploading a route [for] doing a grid survey.” Canada, in 2018. Canada, and a master’s degree in molecular biology from the University of Victoria , in British Columbia. It plans to start manufacturing another 10 later this year. “We

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Synetiq, Allye to turn salvaged EV batteries into energy storage – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Allye will test and buy EV packs from Synetiq, a unit of IAA and part of Canada’s RB Global group , to use in its 300 kilowatt hour (kWh) battery storage system – each one uses four salvaged EV battery packs – which is enough to power a factory or 50 homes for a day.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. Well, let's think.

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Tesla Energy to be part of ‘change in U.S. generation portfolio’: DOE

Teslarati

The countries with the most significant demand are the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. But at the very least, this shows the progress the United States is making toward a more sustainable energy grid. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. unprecedented and deadly winter freeze. We think there’s a better way.

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans

Charged EVs

GM’s BrightDrop vans are assembled in Ingersoll, Canada. This article first appeared in Issue 67: January-March 2024 – Subscribe now. Ram is importing its ProMaster EVs from Saltillo, Mexico, while Ford builds E-Transit vans at its Kansas City Assembly plant in Missouri.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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