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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

Cars That Think

Vijay Vittal receives the 2018 Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award from then president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society, Saifur Rahman. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames. He left Iowa State in 2005 to join Arizona State, where he has served as director of its Power Systems Engineering Research Center.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

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My goal was to head north to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, then west to Fargo, ND, and back to Detroit via Iowa. Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. That prediction came true in 2018, when the Volkswagen IDR4 shattered the previous overall time.

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