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

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, and National Renewable Energy labs, and the University of Tennessee, have published a comprehensive analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for 12 sizes of vehicles ranging from compact sedans up to Class 8 tractors with sleeper cabs.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019).

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). FIE-TAX: Fixed-Incident-Energy Triple-Axis Spectrometer. TAX: Triple-Axis Spectrometer. ORNL operates nine user facilities—i.e., Simmons, B.,

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. It doesn't cover the whole thing, but you do get a chunk of it back as a tax credit. And the issue here is that you get a federal income tax credit.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. It doesn't cover the whole thing, but you do get a chunk of it back as a tax credit. And the issue here is that you get a federal income tax credit.