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Groupe Renault, Connected Energy install EV charging with 2nd-life batteries at highway rest areas

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UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. With the E-STOR system, the batteries are recharged at low power, and the stored energy is then released at high power.

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Cummins & Sinopec launch JV to produce and promote green hydrogen technologies in China

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As an important industrial resource for hydrogen energy, Sinopec has a strong industrial background and integrated value chain.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Here the king [middle] is shown with Robin Berg [left], founder of We Drive Solar, and Jerôme Pannaud [right], Renault's general manager for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Later, Irene ten Dam at the Utrecht regional development agency got wind of his experiment and was intrigued, becoming an advocate for bidirectional charging.

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The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine

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But the knob that they are turning with this newest machine that is currently being built in Belgium right now is to increase the numerical aperture. Now, the mask is where you store the pattern. And I can talk more about that later. That’s sort of the angle of the light that you can operate within the optical system. Here’s the thing.

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