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Go-Station hosts electric drayage truck pull and EV demo event at Georgia port – Charged EVs

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Charging company Go-Station will host an electric drayage truck pull at the Port Fuel Center (PFC), located at the twin container ports Garden City Terminal and Ocean Terminal, near Savannah, Georgia. Garden City Terminal is the fourth busiest container handling facility in the US.

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ExxonMobil & Georgia Tech CMS membrane brings advantages of reverse osmosis separations to hydrocarbon mixtures; potential significant cuts in chemical manufacturing energy use & emissions

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Scientists from ExxonMobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed new free-standing carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane technology that could significantly reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with manufacturing plastics. —Mike Kerby, corporate strategic research manager at ExxonMobil.

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XG Sciences launches graphene-stabilized silicon anode materials for Li-ion batteries

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XGS), a manufacturer of graphene platelets, has launched silicon anode materials for Li-ion batteries, with immediate availability. We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of this new high-capacity anode product. One licensee, Cabot Corporation, recently introduced their first battery additive based on XGS technology.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. Its former corporate parent 3M, meanwhile, has a market cap of $51.33 Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. inch floppy.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. When it arrived, the Oldsmobile Eighty Eight became the first production car available in the United States with a GPS navigation system. It was available on all three models for 1996.

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Ionna EV charging network rivals Tesla, first US stations in 2024

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At that time, the charging network told Green Car Reports that it aims for reduced charging times, and for “having the best charging power available on the market and technological state-of-the-art charging at all times.”

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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To construct the system model, project teams will use data that can be measured and obtained from currently available sources. To develop the software, project teams will use currently available data to simulate the transportation network of a US urban region and quantify how much energy is used in various transportation patterns.