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

Green Car Congress

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. A $288,000 ONR DURIP grant, along with Dr. Jain, to buy equipment that enhances the quality of the thermal characterization of batteries.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. To sit at a terminal and with a few keystrokes be connected through the TIP, to the ARPANET, and then to applications running on computers at dozens of universities and research facilities must have felt like a visit to an alien world.

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