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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

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I don’t understand why all chargers won’t accept credit cards just as they do at gas stations. Thanks to phone apps, I was able to find chargers at several pubs and a few hotels as well getting quick charges at several major gas stations. Currently the only other cars with an 800-volt systems are the Porsche Taycan and Audi E-Tron GT.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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The program’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project oversees the work at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia. The team leaders, projects, contract amounts and periods of performance are: Boeing Research & Technology, Huntington Beach, Calif., million, three years.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example. megaelectron volts (MeV)—strikes one of the deuterons in the metal lattice, the deuteron breaks apart into its constituent proton and neutron.

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