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Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

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The study considers five different powertrains (internal combustion engine, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, fuel-cell-electric, and battery-electric) and 12 cost components (purchase cost, depreciation, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repair, taxes, registration fees, tolls and parking, payload capacity and labor).

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

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The study looked at several powertrains: internal combustion engine, hybrid electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, fuel cell electric vehicle and battery electric vehicle. Birky, Alicia, Hunter, Chad, Lin, Zhenhong, Ou, Shiqi, Xie, Fei, Proctor, Camron, Wiryadinata, Steven, Liu, Nawei, and Boloor, Madhur.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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billion and has around 4,600 total staff, of which 3,000 are scientists and engineers. This makes neutrons quite suited for the detection of hydrogenous material within engineering materials and structures, noted Oak Ridge researchers in a 1999 paper. VULCAN: Engineering Materials Diffractometer. TAX: Triple-Axis Spectrometer.

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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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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.