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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

Like many of the residents that come to our EV Ride & Drive events or email me for advice on what EV to buy, I appreciate the many advantages EVs have over internal combustion engine-powered ones. We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern.

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With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again

Cars That Think

Add in Costanzo and Coelho’s other collaborators—including an electronic nose expert in England, several clinicians in Boston, and a businessman in Indiana—and you have a dream team who just might make it happen. And on one occasion he was oblivious to a gas leak, only realizing the danger when his wife came home and raised the alarm.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better? A sensor network that could monitor an entire forest, or a gas pipeline, or any critical infrastructure, would need thousands or even millions of sensors—and batteries. The idea behind this motion event-triggered sensor isn't new.

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Boeing details improvements to Li-ion battery system for 787; more than 200,000 engineering hours applied so far

Green Car Congress

The company’s intent is to provide three layers of protection: preventing initiation of an event at the cell level; preventing propagation of an event to the other cells in the pack; and preventing impact to the airplane. The events. What was reported as smoke was vaporized electrolyte, Sinnett said.).

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