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Tesla Model Y welcomed by Kansas PD, expected to give cost savings

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In a recent press release, the Leawood Police Department in Kansas announced that it had acquired a Tesla Model Y Long Range for its fleet. Captain Kirt Yoder, the agency’s project manager, noted that Tesla Kansas had been quite helpful. Tesla-Kansas City was great. That was a time when the city’s gas was at $1.75

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. Many Lines, Stable Power High-voltage transmission lines move large amounts of energy over long distances, linking power generation to consumption. Department of Energy reveals the severity of the problem.

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Tesla partners with EV charging reliability platform for Destination network

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Tesla’s high-powered V3 Supercharger offers 250 kW for comparison. Honda and LG Energy Solution announced a $4.4 Panasonic announced a $4 billion plant in De Soto, Kansas that will create 4,000 jobs. Through DOE’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program, the Department of Energy announced a $2.5

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Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

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Comparison of typical plant triacylglycerol structure with acetyl-triacylglycerol. It also can be rotated with wheat and could become a biofuel crop for semi-arid regions, including western Kansas and Colorado. million joint US Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy grant. —Liu et al.

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UC Davis ITS researchers take a detailed look at water consumption and withdrawal requirements for ethanol

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Our water accounting system also considers different types of uses (consumptive, nonconsumptive, and withdrawal) and accounts for application losses, conveyance losses, water use of direct energy inputs throughout the life cycle, and coproduct credits. Comparison with fossil fuels. —Mishra and Yeh.

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Argonne Study Examines Impact of Real World Drive Cycles on Efficiency and Cost of Different PHEV Configurations

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For drive cycles, the Argonne team used the Kansas City data collected in 2005 by the US EPA, which instrumented more than 100 drivers and collected their driving statistics for one day. Here the controller drives as long as possible using battery energy, depleting the state of charge (SOC) from 90% to 30%. L/100km (35.6 L/100km (50.2

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