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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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Topsoe and First Ammonia sign 5GW electrolyzer agreement for green ammonia

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The agreement provides for an initial purchase of 500MW of SOEC units and is expandable to up to 5GW over the lifetime of the agreement. With their cutting edge SOEC electrolyzers and industry leading ammonia synthesis, we will develop facilities around the world to produce millions of tons of green ammonia from water and air.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

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Smith admired large, diverse companies, particularly those like General Electric that had a business portfolio across many industries. In 1984 GM completed a deal to purchase a company called Electronic Data Systems, or EDS. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. Smith forked over $2.5 billion ($7.4B

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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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Feature: Why Singapore Car Washing Services Are Becoming Cheaper

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In Singapore, car-washing services have become cheaper in recent years due to several reasons—listed below: Increased Competition More of these are showing up The car washing industry in Singapore has become increasingly competitive. The availability of cheap car wash services in Singapore brings various benefits to car owners.

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

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Purchased all shares slowly over last few weeks before earnings on margin in $128-139 range. “It was just too cheap to ignore. I purchased thousands of shares for about $2 a share after seeing the Fremont factory and driving my Model S for the first time,” DeBolt said. Feeling good,” he Tweeted. Have cash.

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