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New OnStar app shows cost of Volt charging

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OnStar is testing a smartphone app that tells Chevrolet Volt owners how much it costs to charge their battery and compares their Volt’s energy use with the total energy consumed in their home by day, month or year. The app also collects Volt charging information from OnStar subscribers and Volt owners who opt in for EcoHub.

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SunEdison developing home solar charging systems for Chevrolet Volt

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As part of its role, SunEdison will be leading development of the advanced home solar photovoltaic (PV) charging systems for the Chevrolet Volt. is creating a consumer-focused smart-grid demonstration project in Austin, Texas, built around home applications, and consumer electronics. Pecan Street Inc.

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Chevrolet to Produce 10,000 Volts in 2011 and 30,000 in 2012; 50-State Availability 12-18 Months After Launch

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Chevrolet plans to produce 10,000 Volt extended range electric vehicles by the end of the 2011 calendar year, and an additional 30,000 Volts during the 2012 calendar year, according to Volt Marketing Director Tony DiSalle, who made the announcements during a live video webcast 1 July. Earlier post.). Nashville, Tenn.,

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 awarded to developers of Li-ion battery

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Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin; M. This resulted in a battery that literally had great potential, just over two volts. After a systematic search, in 1980 he demonstrated that cobalt oxide with intercalated lithium ions can produce as much as four volts. Goodenough’s battery.

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

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s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Chevrolet made 100 Chevrolet Volts available for purchase on a priority basis last September to residents participating the Pecan Street Inc.’s The Mueller Community.

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New York And Texas To Join 2011 Chevrolet Volt Launch Markets

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The 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric vehicle will be upon us soon, very soon in fact, but for a few select markets, the Volt will arrive much earlier than elsewhere. GM has confirmed that the Volt will be launched initially in California, Michigan and Washington D.C.

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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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And attackers may exploit these side-channels to gain access to sensitive information,” said Sirish Oruganti a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. Oruganti and colleagues at UT Austin and at Intel came up with a new way to counter that theft by obscuring those signals.

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