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8 Reasons Government Grants Should Include Funding for Level 1 Charging Infrastructure

EV Adoption

As we wait for Congress to fully return from their recess and vote on various legislation, I continue to be extremely concerned about how as much as $10 billion in federal government grants will be be spent on EV charging infrastructure. But as I outlined in my recent article, How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America? ,

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How Automotive Dealerships Can Save Money with Battery Energy Storage

Blink Charging

A BESS is a type of technology that utilizes batteries to store and supply reliable electricity when needed at desired levels and quality. If your energy comes primarily from renewables, the BESS enables you to store that energy for times when renewables may not be available, like at night for when solar panels are inactive.

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Virginia Tech researchers develop high-energy-density sugar “biobattery”, an enzymatic fuel cell

Green Car Congress

We are releasing all electron charges stored in the sugar solution slowly step-by-step by using an enzyme cascade. Additional funding was contributed by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant to Cell-Free Bioinnovations Inc. —Zhu et al. Zhiguang Zhu, Tsz Kin Tam, Fangfang Sun, Chun You & Y.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. The CCD would capture the image, which would then run through a Motorola analog-to-digital converter and be stored temporarily in a DRAM array of a dozen 4,096-bit chips.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

Cars That Think

The IEEE CIS chapter received a US $4,400 grant for the project from EPICS in IEEE , made possible through generous donors and a partnership with the IEEE Foundation. The team built 11 devices, which currently are stored in the NAB library. The assistive device works with or without Wi-Fi. Users must sign them out.

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U Texas at Austin researchers rewire yeast for high lipid generation; 60x improvement over parent strains

Green Car Congress

Traditional methods to increase lipids yield rely on nitrogen starvation to trick yeast cells into storing fat and materials. This research was funded by the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program, the DuPont Young Professor Grant and the Welch Foundation under grant F-1753. —Blazeck et al.

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The rising role of software in electric vehicles – ET Auto

Baua Electric

First and foremost, as the primary users of the technologies, OEM and auto manufacturers may choose to absorb the costs associated with building and storing the required datasets. There are several potential approaches and considerations regarding who should bear these costs.