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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry

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Unico vice president of engineering Don Wright told IEEE Spectrum that the BAT300 series is also good for conducting capacity tests when a company wants to check cells it purchased from another manufacturer. That all-important data will be critical to setting a purchaser’s expectations and go a long way toward leaving a good impression.

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IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

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The situation is the same for the battery packs, which actually take up the most space in boxy designs unconventional for the moto industry (even when utilizing high-energy automotive-grade Li-ion cells). In contrast, low energy, cheap LFP packs sourced from China can be used for the low energy needs of electric scooters.

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Tesla shareholder sells home to load up on stock, and it’s already paying off

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He began buying the 10,000 additional shares slowly over the last several weeks on margin, or using a loan from a brokerage to buy more shares, in the $128-139 range before the company’s most recent Earnings Call. Purchased all shares slowly over last few weeks before earnings on margin in $128-139 range. Have cash.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. A large part of that is due to industrial use by large, energy-hungry industries such as steel-making, chemical manufacturing, and construction.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 Meanwhile, according to an AlixPartners survey of 1,000 Americans regarding their views of the US economy and their personal economic situations, 83% said they had delayed or planned to wait at least a year to buy a vehicle.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

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Auto Industry Analyst. Instead, the news and claim has been relegated to Stellantis executive quotes in trade articles and is generally flying below the radar of many in the auto industry — and perhaps more importantly the larger potential PHEV-buying consumer market. Flip a coin. Leased mine. Rocksteadyrobk, 4xeForums.

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SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal

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For SpaceX to design and build its own custom bulk commodity storage tanks instead of buying what is arguably a fairly routine and cheap off-the-shelf technology, Starship production has to be DIRT CHEAP. Just dawned on me that this is a much bigger deal than it might seem.

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