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DOE awarding $19.4M to 22 advanced vehicle technologies projects; Mercedes-Benz, GM Li-S battery projects

Green Car Congress

These projects enable smaller, safer, lighter weight, and less expensive battery packs that ultimately will make electric vehicles more affordable. The three selected EEMS projects will conduct research that evaluates energy savings benefits from connected and automated vehicles. University of Virginia. Earlier post.)

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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My leadership experience inside and outside of IEEE and my connections with multiple IEEE organizational units enables me to facilitate linking, partnering, and communicating across boundaries. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the 2016–2017 Region 5 director and the 2019 vice president of. Virginia Tech.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. About Joe: Joe has driven electric since 2017 with two BMWs: i3 REX and X5 40e. About Rick: Rick has been driving electric for over 3 years and currently drives a 2017 Chevy Bolt EV. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. About Joe: Joe has driven electric since 2017 with two BMWs: i3 REX and X5 40e. About Rick: Rick has been driving electric for over 3 years and currently drives a 2017 Chevy Bolt EV. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. Viswanathan notes that, by packing in more active battery material via 4680 cells and structural packs, LFP could enjoy a serious boost in driving range at an ultra-affordable cost.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

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CMOS fab to mass-produce complex devices by the thousands to make them affordable to research labs. Adoption has skyrocketed since 2017. These functional goals drove our design toward long, slender silicon shanks packed with electrical sensors. We soon realized, however, that we faced a major materials issue.