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Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

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Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers. Endesa will host a full demonstration of the market-ready and low cost system in Madrid on 12 March. Electricity generated by solar panels or wind turbines can be used to charge a vehicle, to power the home or business, or to feed back to the grid.

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Material Derived From Carbonized Chicken Feathers Could Meet DOE Hydrogen Storage Targets

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Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost.

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Luxonis’ New Fun-size Bot

Cars That Think

They’ve just launched a Kickstarter for Rae , a pint-sized open source mobile robot with an integrated depth camera that combines accessible apps with ROS 2 and is somehow also kind of affordable. This is a shame, because it was a shockingly cheap $299.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

Cars That Think

For some context on what you’re about to see, a brief callback to a year ago last August, when I predicted what was in store for 2022: It’s possible, even likely, that Tesla will build some sort of Tesla Bot by sometime next year, as Musk says. And it is expected to cost much less than a car—much less than $20,000 would be my guess.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. we could not afford to do anything like this."

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