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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US. IKEA Joins Hands With Electrify America.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. An abridged version of this article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “Pictures of a Planet.". billion in today’s dollars).

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Joyce Bodoh , director of energy solutions and clean energy for Virginia’s Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC), a utility distributor in central Virginia, says that “REC leadership is really, really supportive of electrification, energy efficiency, and electric transportation.”

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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All commercial artificial pancreas systems are still "hybrid," meaning that users are required to estimate the carbohydrates in a meal they're about to consume and thus assist the system with glucose control. Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. It appeared in the October 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. In the 1960s, the software for the Apollo guidance computer was stored in a woven substrate called core rope memory. We chose two different fiber sensors.

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