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

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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 The regeneration on the Hornet R/T PHEV replenishes the battery when slowing or braking and is what contributed to that excellent range without using a drop of gasoline.

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

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Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. I’m not surprised as they are two of the most advanced EVs on the market, thanks mainly to their 800-volt architecture, which offers a higher capacity battery and faster charging. At a popular stop Since I was back to the U.S.,

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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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