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Thomas M. Coughlin is 2023 IEEE President-Elect

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He is a regular contributor on digital storage for the Forbes blog and other news outlets. He also was chair of the IEEE New Initiatives and Public Visibility committees. He was vice president of operations and planning for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and served as general chair of the 2011 Sections Congress in San Francisco.

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XALT Energy batteries powering MCI all-electric passenger coach

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XALT Energy is working in partnership with Motor Coach Industries (MCI), a US subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. FlixBus, Europe’s largest operator of long-distance bus travel, will test the bus through its FlixBus USA operations. FlixBus is expanding its city-to-city long-distance service model in the US.

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Inside EVs reports on independent testing of Nissan LEAFs and battery capacity loss

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Almost 40,000 have been sold around the world in the short time since then, with well over 10,000 sold in the USA. In the USA, that job is advertised as traveling “100 miles” (161km), and even further, 200 kilometers (124 miles) in Japan. It was sheer stupidity to tell this group of owners that the batteries are ok.

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Eaton and Western Michigan University Partner on Commercial and Military Hybrid Vehicles Research

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Research at the lab will involve Eaton’s hybrid electric drive business group and WMU researchers in the University’s Center for Advanced Vehicle Design and Simulation— CAViDS. The Department of Defense award was part of spending bill passed by Congress in late December. TARDEC); and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

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Because what’s bad news for the legacy “Burn To Earn&# industries who are responsible for overheating our planet is exactly the great news that our new, renewable and sustainable business model needs to take off like a rocket and change our world for the better economically and environmentally.

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Automaker Plug-in Hybrid PR Flurry

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Nancy Goia of Ford got some ink for comments at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit. Nancy Gioia, speaking to the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit, said, "The biggest barrier [to such technology] is the battery.". The buzz about the Volt has generated automaker PR reactions. One big corporate "ME TOO!"

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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He is a regular contributor on digital storage for the Forbes blog and other news outlets. In 2019 he was IEEE-USA president as well as IEEE Region 6 director. He also was chair of the IEEE New Initiatives and Public Visibility committees.