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NIO aims for swap stations to serve partly as showrooms in underdeveloped cities

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Qin mentioned these in an interview with local media 36kr , saying, NIO had opened stores in third and fourth-tier cities, but found the results to be mediocre, according to the text of the interview released today. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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UH, Toyota researchers develop new cathode and electrolyte for high-power Mg battery rivaling Li-ion

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The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. This new class of redox chemistry bypasses the need of solid-state intercalation while solely storing magnesium, instead of its complex forms, creating a new paradigm in magnesium battery electrode design. Neither approach is practical.

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Tokyo Tech researchers ID enzyme that could boost algal biofuel production

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Algae can store up large amounts of triacylglycerols (TAGs) under adverse conditions such as nitrogen deprivation. Scientific Reports Volume 8, Article number: 12410 doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30809-8. Understanding precisely how they do so is of key interest to the biotechnology sector, as TAGs can be converted to biodiesel.

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China to introduce credit pool for NEV dual credit system that is expected to facilitate credit trading

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When the supply of credits is less than the demand, automakers can release the stored positive credits to regulate the supply and demand in the credits market. The policy has been in effect since April 1, 2018. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. Sasson says he never anticipated how the imaging of everything would become so ubiquitous.

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Study: hydrogen boride nanosheets are a promising hydrogen carrier; 8wt% under ambient conditions

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Innovative nanosheets made from equal parts of hydrogen and boron have a greater capacity to store and release hydrogen compared with conventional metal-based materials. The hydrogen storage and release capacity of HB sheets is exceptionally high due to their two-dimensional nature and unique electronic band structure.

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NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

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kg in California in the third quarter of 2018. This article compares the economics of various existing hydrogen-delivery methods with the economics of a novel variation on pipeline delivery: a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city pipeline system referred to here as the “HyLine” system. —Penev et al.

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