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BYD unveils North America’s largest electric bus factory; capacity for up to 1,500 vehicles annually

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BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, unveiled its expanded battery-electric bus manufacturing facility in Lancaster, California—North America’s largest. BYD has delivered 137 electric buses in the US and Canada, including more than 75 buses delivered in 2017.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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For the Artemis program , NASA and its collaborators want to build a sustained presence on the moon, which includes setting up a base where astronauts can live and work. Notably, it will need to keep astronauts alive, rather than just support a conventional household load, says Rachid Darbali-Zamora , an electrical engineer at Sandia.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric vehicle coalition.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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A recent study published in the Journal of Transport Geography has alleged that “car harm” cannot be undone by the world pivoting to all-electric vehicles.& The complaint is that all vehicles are problematic and the paper recommends sweeping policy changes pertaining to how roads are managed to deal with the matter.&

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

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In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. So the dragonfly's brain is performing a remarkable feat, given that the time needed for a single neuron to add up all its inputs—called its membrane time constant—exceeds 10 milliseconds.

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