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Panasonic cools on idea for third US plant for Tesla batteries

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Panasonic has been working to increase the energy density of the 2170 cell , with the company saying that the new improvements could help reduce the overall cost of an EV. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here.

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Tesla partners on new solar solution expected to slash rooftop solar costs

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Tesla has partnered with IronRidge, a solar mount manufacturer, to combine their products into a solution that’s expected to slash rooftop solar costs. A lot of the cost of a solar system is linked to design, installation, mounting equipment, and more. Now, a new solution by IronRidge and Tesla is expected to help do that.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The student team was able to take an idea and turn it into a working solution while working hand in hand with a community partner, the National Association for the Blind (NAB) in Karnataka, India.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout pitch included cost-cutting measures: report

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These include cost-saving measures, as well as the appointment of a new chief executive. Musk reportedly pitched his ideas to banks that agreed to help him in his efforts to acquire Twitter for $44 billion. This, Musk reportedly highlighted, meant that there was plenty of space to run Twitter in a more cost-efficient manner.

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Personal: Range Anxiety Be Damned!

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a gallon, so that’s cost equivalent of 57 mpg. But the nav system doesn’t know this and thought that going about 170 miles with only 180-mile range wasn’t a very smart idea, so it planned the stop. Road Trip: 2021 Volkswagen ID4 The post Personal: Range Anxiety Be Damned! The good news was that the charger worked!

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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

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A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country.

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