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A cheap Toyota EV? Not right now, the company says

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Toyota has no current plans to launch a cheap EV despite demand building. Toyota says no small, cheap EV is in the works Although many automakers, including VW, Stellantis, and Kia, have revealed plans to launch low-cost EVs under $30,000 (£25,000), Toyota says not so fast. The post A cheap Toyota EV?

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg. By comparison, realized capacity in a graphite/copper composite anode is only ~ 150 mAh g -1. The eutectic microstructure forms naturally because of thermodynamics. —Karl Kreder.

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Material Derived From Carbonized Chicken Feathers Could Meet DOE Hydrogen Storage Targets

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Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost.

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Luxonis’ New Fun-size Bot

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This is a shame, because it was a shockingly cheap $299. The obvious comparison here is to the TurtleBot, which is arguably more capable and more expandable and could be a better learning platform for ROS but is also way more expensive—the most basic version of the new TurtleBot 4 is well over $1000 USD. “We

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Stanford team develops new ultrahigh surface area 3D porous graphitic carbon material for improved energy storage

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While some specially designed 3D porous graphene networks show good pore connectivity and conductivity, large-scale and low-cost fabrication of such graphene networks remains a challenge. c) Comparison of areal capacity and cycling life between HPG carbon/ sulfur electrodes and recently reported high-performance sulfur electrodes.

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Underground Coal Gasification Company In Partnership to Test Alkaline Fuel Cells for Power Generation

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AFC has run thousands of hours of system and electrode tests, and in some instances has run comparison tests to ascertain the severity of the problem of CO 2 contamination in KOH. The Alpha System Fuel Cell is being developed as a low-cost, easy to maintain, mass manufactured unit that can be installed in modular blocks.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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We’ve designed it using the same discipline that we use in designing the car, which is to design it for manufacturing, such that it’s possible to make the robot at high volume with low cost and high reliability. And it is expected to cost much less than a car—much less than $20,000 would be my guess. That’s incredibly important.…Optimus

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