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New Tesla Model Y first impressions after demo drive

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A Tesla Cybertruck owner from Austin, Texas recently shared a number of insights following a demo drive of the new Model Y. Based on posters that have been shared on social media media, it appears that test drives of the new Model Y were offered in Austin and Dallas, Texas.

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Then, you can reduce the microstructure by rolling it, which is an extraordinarily cheap step to convert a microstructure into a nanostructure.

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DOE and NSF Award $2.5M for Research into New Materials for Photosplitting Water to Produce Hydrogen

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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 However, efficient, cheap and abundant materials have yet to be discovered to make solar water splitting a viable process. million to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water into hydrogen. Charles Mullins.

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

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The Poms devised parking space sizes when the Austin A30 was deemed normal, so the Soul just about proved manageable. The post Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on appeared first on EV Central. It feels safe, capable and a bit of a laugh to steer, not dissimilar to a Kona EV. And parking?

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Exclusive: FAA Investigates If It's Safer to Leave Cellphones On

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An advantage of using wireless networks to provide that warning is that cellphones are very cheap and now almost ubiquitous. That's not entirely bad because the spoofing that's really dangerous is the one on approach to an airport," said Todd Humphries, director of the Radionavigation Laboratory at UT Austin and an expert in GPS spoofing.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Elon Musk claims Tesla robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, does the math work?

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Elon Musk is claiming that Tesla Robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, which “won’t be needed” when it “rolls out unsupervised full self-driving.” The post Elon Musk claims Tesla robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, does the math work? Does the math work? FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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