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How much money EV ownership saves depends on where you live

Baua Electric

A new University of Michigan study compares the cost of ownership for EVs and internal-combustion vehicles across 14 U.S. EVs were most cost competitive in cities with high gas prices, low electricity prices, moderate climates, high annual mileage, direct purchase incentives, and—for owners with home charging—time-of-use electricity rates.

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Ohio workshop seeks ideas for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

Green Car Congress

The workshop will be held 9 July at the Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. and local Cleveland organizations that include NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cuyahoga Community College and Case Western Reserve University. The network is proposed as a public and private collaboration in the President’s FY 2013 budget.

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Hidden Cameras: What Travelers Need to Know

Baua Electric

Like other businesses, hotels and vacation rentals use surveillance cameras for two reasons, said Michael McCall, a Hilton Hotels Fellow in the School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University: To protect their customers and their property. But it’s the illegal use of hidden cameras that have shocked travelers.

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Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

Green Car Congress

A better understanding of the cool flames’ chemistry might help improve internal combustion engines in cars, for example by developing homogenous-charge compression ignition, which could potentially lead to engines that burn fuel at cooler temperatures, emitting fewer pollutants such as soot and nitric oxide and NO x , while still being efficient.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. Erb was an advisor to this team from the University of Idaho, finishing in first place with this Camaro EV conversion. Famous racers like Mario Andretti would spend hours with my students,” Erb added. “Of

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Road Test: 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T Plus Plug-In Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

The primary way to charge the 15.5 hour with a 120 volt, Level 1 charger for a full charge. A Level 2, 240 volt charger, found at public charge stations and, commonly, in homes will take 7.5 DC Fast charging is not compatible. E-Save reserves the battery charge to be used at a later time. The onboard 7.4

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

Cars That Think

Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. The confinement encourages positively charged nuclei to fuse because the high electron density of the conductive metal reduces the likelihood that two nuclei will repel each other as they get closer together.

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