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Sandia Successfully Completes Hydrogen Storage System for GM

Green Car Congress

We’ve shown that we can engineer vehicle-scale energy storage systems to meet a variety of operating requirements and driving cycles, and our design methods have been validated for relevant materials.” With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., Jim Spearot, GM lead executive for hydrogen storage. Terry Johnson. and Livermore, Calif.,

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

In an EV, while using the HVAC won’t detract from the maximum output of the traction motor, it does still demand energy from the battery, so there will be a hit to range. Heat pumps have two huge advantages: They can operate in both directions and they can transport more heat than the energy required to operate them.

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Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

Cars That Think

In my research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, I study the brains of one of these larger insects, the dragonfly. And the energy cost is off-putting. Once it comes out of its nymph stage as a winged adult (technically referred to as a teneral), the dragonfly does not have a parent to feed it or show it how to hunt.

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