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How EV Charging Boosts Your Workplace Benefits Package

Blink Charging

As electric vehicles (EVs) become more mainstream, more workplaces are starting to provide charging options for their employees. While 80% of charging takes place at home, EV drivers without access to a home charger must use workplace or public charging stations to keep their vehicles charged.

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How EV Charging Boosts Your Workplace Benefits Package

Blink Charging

As electric vehicles (EVs) become more mainstream, more workplaces are starting to provide charging options for their employees. While 80% of charging takes place at home, EV drivers without access to a home charger must use workplace or public charging stations to keep their vehicles charged.

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Ionic Materials raises $65M in Series C; polymer electrolyte for solid-state batteries

Green Car Congress

Products from our partners using Ionic Materials’ technology will lead the charge to safely power everyday products with eco-friendly, high-capacity batteries. —Bill Joy, personal investor and a founding member of the Ionic Materials Board of Directors. (As Joy served as chief scientist there until 2003.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen launched the first production dual clutch transmission in 2003 as the Volkswagen 6-speed DSG, which was initially used in the Golf R32 and the Audi TT. In addition, the system integrates information about the route most likely to be driven into the operating and charging strategy of a plug-in hybrid drive. 10-speed DSG.

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Tips: 3 Ways to Boost Your Vehicle’s MPG

Clean Fleet Report

According to the Insurance Information Institute ( III ), data tracked by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Fatal Accident Reporting System notes aggressive driving played a role in 56 percent of fatal crashes from 2003 and 2007, with excessive speed being the No. Two tickets? By up to 50 percent.

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Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators

Cars That Think

That’s often when the surgeon arrived, scrubbed in, and took charge. In that old system, trainees were in charge for several hours of each procedure. To become a surgeon, a person must first spend four years in medical school and then. It then gives surgeons personalized feedback on their performance.

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Sandia Labs and HHC partner to design metal hydride hydrogen storage system for forklifts

Green Car Congress

Sandia National Laboratories and Hawaii Hydrogen Carrier s (HHC) are partnering to design a solid-state metal-hydride hydrogen storage system for forklifts; the storage system can refuel at low pressure four to five times faster than it takes to charge a battery-powered forklift. —Adrian Narvaez, Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers (HHC).

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