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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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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. The problem here is physics, which not even Tesla can alter.

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. She had invented an early graphing calculator and worked on the design and construction of hydroelectric power systems including the Hoover Dam , located on the Nevada-Arizona border. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.