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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry

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Paul Kohl, Georgia Institute of Technology At the battery seminar, Wright showed off a BAT300 test channel designed to convert a 400 or 800 volt direct current down to a 10 volt current for cell formation or cell testing. Battery companies have expended enormous effort on predictive modeling.” But important questions remain. “It

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Converting a gas appliance to a heat pump, for example, would draw 4 to 6 kW, while an L2 charger for EVs would be 12 to 14 kW. For instance, Marshall stated, it is not unusual for a 37.5 kilovolt-ampere transformer to support 15 households, as the distribution system was originally designed for each household to draw 2 kilowatts of power.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority will receive funding to execute a second phase of its electric bus program to install charging infrastructure (on-route & charging bank for depot chargers) and buy electric buses. Georgia Department of Transportation. The City of Madison has a goal to convert the fleet to 50% electric by 2035.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

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Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity. Charged : You recently signed a joint development agreement with SK On, a South Korean battery manufacturer that’s operating two EV battery plants in Georgia, and is building several more in the Southeast.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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The stator converts its thrust force and torque into longitudinal and meridian motions of the torus wheel, respectively, making the torus work as an omnidirectional wheel on a plane. Engineers at Georgia Tech are the first to study the mechanics of springtails, which leap in the water to avoid predators. Georgia Tech ] Thanks, Jason!

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The company is currently testing samples of the battery, expects the product to be commercially available in 2013, and has already built a list of several companies who have committed to buy the product. Collaborators include Purdue University; Georgia Institute of. Alliance and Georgia Institute of. Third Wave Systems, Inc.,

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

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They wanted to buy one or two trucks and test them for several years, and startup companies couldn’t stay alive that long. We took all that information and qualified over 14,500 prospects who were ready to convert to electric We started acquiring vehicles about four years ago. They said, “No, no, we buy a lot of power from the utility.