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This new Texas power company’s electricity comes with a home battery

Baua Electric

Customers save on their monthly electric bills and benefit from backup power for one-tenth the upfront cost of comparable batteries and generators. The upfront cost is a one-time fee of $2,000 to cover installation, and Base offers fixed monthly pricing for electricity. Texas is No. Get started here. –

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Chevrolet unveils the Bolt EV

Green Car Congress

As promised, GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra unveiled the production 2017 Bolt battery-electric vehicle at CES 2016. It also features advanced connectivity technologies designed to enhance and personalize the driving experience.

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DOE to invest $30M to further H2 and fuel cell technology as industry continues strong growth

Green Car Congress

Applicants to the Energy Department’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s fiscal year 2017 funding opportunity will collaborate with national lab consortia stemming from the EMN initiative. For example, more than 36,000 emergency responders and code officials have been reached through on-line and in-person trainings.

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RAND study finds introducing autonomous vehicles sooner could save hundreds of thousands of lives

Green Car Congress

This suggests that the opportunity cost, in terms of lives saved, for waiting for better HAV performance may indeed be large. This evidence can help decisionmakers better understand the human cost of different policy choices governing HAV safety and set policies that save more lives. —Kalra and Groves (2017).

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GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

Green Car Congress

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. Licht (2017). Humans consume more than 1 ton of concrete per person per year—10 12 kg of cement annually—and the cement industry releases 9kg of CO 2 for each 10kg of cement produced, emitting 36 Gt globally annually.

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The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game

Cars That Think

arguably began with a 1982 paper by the computer scientist David Chaum , but it reached mainstream attention with the success of Bitcoin , a cryptocurrency created by the anonymous person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto. dozens of new blockchain games based on the cryptocurrency through late 2017 and 2018.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. It’s crucial that any operator have at least one person charged with the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of adding electric trucks to a fleet.

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