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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Shreveport, La.; UPS drives more than 6,100 CNG and LNG vehicles which can be powered by RNG in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

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How quickly you can charge – the average power capacity of public EV chargers. In more nascent markets such as many US states, it is important to use the number of registered EVs-per-charger ratio, while in more mature markets, a “power-per-EV” ratio can be more useful.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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HIROYUKI MATSUNAMI Kyoto University “For pioneering contributions to the development of silicon carbide material and its applications to electronic power devices.” IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co., IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. MULLIGAN, JR. IEEE ROBERT N. IEEE DENNIS J.

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Utilities Are Taking an EV-industry Leadership Role

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Utilities are emerging as dominant players in the global race to electric vehicle adoption beyond just the power supplier. Furthermore, their ability to work from within the regulatory environment gives them significant power to change the policies governing their own ability to become active participants in the market.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. Running a 5-micrometer-technology chip at an 8-MHz clock rate caused it to dissipate a great deal of power—nearly 1.5 One provided a power supply for engineering approval,” Ziembicki recalled. “It Without a major redesign, you could not get the power out.”

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