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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Rivian also plans to offer a more affordable 105-kilowatt-hour pack with a roughly 230-mile range. The industry-first “Gear Tunnel” is a cavernous, side–to-side cargo hold behind the passenger cab, only possible because there’s no internal-combustion powertrain. On top of all that, the Rivian charms with pure ingenuity. foot cargo bed.

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The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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According to TechInsight’s forecast, the semiconductor industry is on track to produce almost 2 billion trillion (1021) devices this year. And engineers in Illinois and England have made microcontrollers that are both affordable and bendable. But size isn’t the only feature engineers have been improving.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win! And the company donates 5% of sales to CalCars.org in recognition of its role in promoting PHEVs and the conversions industry. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. industries, without the need for these costly and scarce. industrially scalable high temperature phase change materials.

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