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Tesla has changed ‘majority-minority’ wording in its latest 10-K filing

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” However, instead of the “minority-majority” workforce phrasing included in last year’s filing, the 10-K filed this week includes the following language: “We remain unwavering in our demand that our factories, offices, stores and service centers are places where our employees feel respected and appreciated. .”

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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ARPA-E’s RANGE program seeks to improve EV driving range and reduce vehicle costs by re-envisioning the total EV battery system, rather than working to increase the energy density of individual battery cells. For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 Lead organization. Description.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored.

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

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Now that phase is over, and companies are starting to place substantial orders, but they’re running into another hurdle—charging infrastructure needs to be built out, and managing it is a complex affair. These megawatt charging sites will be open to all fleet operators. These megawatt charging sites will be open to all fleet operators.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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Last week, Volkswagen provided a close-up look at one of the projects in which it is investing: the Garcia River Conservation-Based Forest Management Project, located in Mendocino County, California. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. This goes beyond just selling electric vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Lead organization. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. Lead organization.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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California, and those states which have signed on to the California ZEV requirements). Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). The power electronics converts the direct current (DC) stored in the battery to alternating current (AC). Reducing the rolling resistance coefficient from 7.2

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