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Electrify America to more than double its current EV charging network by end of 2025

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Both initiatives are part of a global announcement today by the parent company Volkswagen Group to substantially increase public charging infrastructure in North America, Asia and Europe. The company has installed on average four stations per week since its first charging station opened a little over three years ago in May 2018.

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GM makes its largest green energy purchase to date; 50 MW wind deal

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General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its US facilities, including business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River.

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AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop

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Dice released these numbers last month as part of its annual Tech Salary Report. salaries for software engineers with expertise in machine learning, for example, jumped 22 percent in 2019 over 2018, then went up another 3.1 In 2021, as in 2020, major tech companies touted plans to relocate from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas.

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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 work is in part a continuation of earlier efforts described in 2018 in Joule ( earlier post ) and involved many of the same researchers. —Rana Mohtadi, a Principal Scientist in the materials research department at TRINA and co-corresponding author.

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How 2023 will be Tesla’s true ‘breakout’ year

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Full Self-Driving was slotted to be completed for the first time in 2018. If Tesla can dial in production of the Cybertruck in 2023, it will not only deny so many naysayers of their skepticism, but it will also prove the company has effectively outgrown its cell supply shortages and parts bottlenecks.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He was part of a team there that developed the world’s first random-access magnetic memory. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. After Goodenough earned a Ph.D.

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Kicking It With Robots

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On page 40 of this issue, Peter Stone—past president of the RoboCup Federation, professor in the computer science department of the University of Texas at Austin, and executive director of Sony AI America—captures some of that unbridled enthusiasm and gives us the history of the event.