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MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Does your robot know where it is right now? Are you sure ? And what about all of its robot friends, do they know where they are too? This is important.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. From the article: “The goal is to make it easier for consumers and communities to get started with E.V.’s. We’re excited to be part of this program, because it gets both public and private infrastructure installed in key areas of the U.S.,”

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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

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Although markets have dealt with the supply overhang for the better part of two years, the surplus could flip to a deficit as early as this year, as declines exceed new sources of production by a few hundred thousand barrels per day. Link to original article: [link].

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How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

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considered getting into the chip-stimulus game as well. But manufacturers “don’t want a 12-cent part to hold up a 4K television,” so they’re stocking up. This article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “How and When the Chip Shortage Will End.” In March of 2023, the U.S.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Energy Markets in a State of Change. Billion vs. $28.3

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This is How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect The Global EV Market

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Many municipal and federal governments, for example, have expanded consumer benefits for EV sales, mostly as part of stimulus efforts aimed at mitigating the pandemic’s economic effect. That is mainly because the pandemic is not over yet and it is still going fiercely in certain parts of the globe.

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How NI plans to innovate in the EV test and measurement industry and unlock the power of data

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For example, very high-voltage stimulus and measurement—those products have been around for decades in other smaller industries, like the electric grid or certain aerospace testing applications. To do things like scale the costs down, measurement is a big part of that. And, personally, I’m almost 10 years into owning EVs.