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Wallbox opens first North American EV Charger facility in Texas

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Wallbox, the Barcelona, Spain-based provider of EV charging and energy management solutions worldwide, officially opened its first North American manufacturing facility in Arlington, Texas. which will […] The post Wallbox opens first North American EV Charger facility in Texas appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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UT Arlington project for Navy investigating how batteries age when run at high rates

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A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. 200,000 in ONR grants over a three-year period to simulate, design and evaluate a high power Hybrid Energy Storage Module.

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Wallbox introduces Quasar 2 next-generation bidirectional home charger at CES 2022

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Wallbox, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions worldwide, introduced Quasar 2, the latest generation of its bidirectional home chargers designed specifically for the North American market. Providing up to 11.5 With Quasar, your EV energy goes beyond driving.

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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And then, out of nowhere, came an absolute bombshell: “We have designed our next drive unit, which uses a permanent-magnet motor, to not use any rare-earth elements at all,” declared Colin Campbell , Tesla’s director of power train engineering. All of the candidates today fail to tick one or more of these boxes.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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So he returned to Dayton and got an engineering job at the AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate working on air acoustics and designing exhaust systems for military airplanes. I was able to put my training in college to good use there in the early years of my career, so it all worked out.". After getting his Ph.D. The articles are great.

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Wallbox enters first phase of build-out for US EV charger plant; 500k units/year by 2025

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Wallbox, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions worldwide, has begun construction at its Arlington, Texas manufacturing facility, the company’s first US-based EV charger manufacturing facility. Between all facilities, Wallbox is expected to have a global production capacity of more than 1.1

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Composite body electric buses: Replace conventional diesel transit buses with 35-ft composite body electric transit buses.

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