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DOE labs study on costs and benefits of new transportation technologies the most comprehensive to date

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Key findings include insights into vehicle depreciation, an in-depth examination of insurance premium costs, comprehensive maintenance and repair estimates, an analysis of all relevant taxes and fees, and considerations of specific costs applicable to commercial vehicles.

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US indicts 7 individuals and 3 companies in alleged $100M biodiesel RINs fraud in Indiana

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An additional defendant was charged by federal information and has petitioned the court to enter a plea of guilty and cooperate with investigators. A dollar-per-gallon tax credit was available only to the first person to blend the pure biodiesel (known as B100) with petroleum diesel. The defendants. The alleged securities fraud.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Without a driveway and a garage, how can I set up charging at home? Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? What would my experience be like finding charging stations, and then what will it be like when I get there? And so that's what we call "DC fast charging."

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Without a driveway and a garage, how can I set up charging at home? Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? What would my experience be like finding charging stations, and then what will it be like when I get there? And so that's what we call "DC fast charging."

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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Neutrons do not possess any electric charge; they are stable inside the nucleus, and outside of it, they decay with a lifetime of about 15 minutes (886 seconds)—a long time for a fundamental particle. FIE-TAX: Fixed-Incident-Energy Triple-Axis Spectrometer. TAX: Triple-Axis Spectrometer. POWGEN: Powder Diffractometer.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Other state and national authorities allow citizens to use their voices to verify their identity and thus gain access to their tax data records and pension information. Looking deeply into the human voice Chad Hagen Singh suggests that speech analysis alone can be used to generate a shockingly detailed profile of an unknown speaker.

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