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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# The availability of high current charging power is not important. When the team tested the newly-coated cathode, they discovered it could be charged and discharged in as little as 9 seconds.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available. William Clarke/University of Virginia. In 2007, our group at the University of Virginia proposed using computer-simulation experiments instead. In January 2008, the U.S. and across Europe; in 2008 the U.S.

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