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Finland’s oldest ferry goes all electric with Visedo

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The Föri initially entered service in 1904, after the City of Turku commissioned local shipyards Aktiebolaget Vulcan to build a city commuter ferry to take passengers across the Aura River to Åbo. The DC/DC converters serve to increase the battery voltage to a level that is more suitable for the motor drives.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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For this trend to continue, though, mining companies need to find a lot more of the metals used to build electric cars and their batteries. He’s the co-founder and president of KoBold Metals , an AI-powered mineral exploration company working to discover the materials for electric vehicle batteries. Today I’m talking with Josh Goldman.

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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit

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A 35 Ah nickel-hydrogen battery will provide power when the sun is eclipsed from the spacecraft. As depicted above, the international Afternoon Constellation includes OCO-2, GCOM-W1, Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat, PARASOL, and Aura. GCOM-W1, Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat, and Aura are currently on orbit.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Although an electric range of 10 miles may not sound too impressive, the more frequently a battery is fully discharged during normal operation, and subsequently recharged from the grid, the faster the consumer sees a return on their battery investment.

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

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In 1974 the laser printer first became available outside PARC when a small group of PARC researchers under John Ellenby—who built the Alto II, a production-line version of the Alto, and who is now vice president of development at Grid Systems Corp., Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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