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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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Machine Learning Tool Easily Spots ChatGPT's Writing

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A team of researchers from the University of Kansas has developed a tool to weed out AI-generated academic writing from the stuff penned by people, with over 99 percent accuracy. Heather Desaire, University of Kansas In order to convincingly mimic human-generated writing, chatbots like ChatGPT are trained on reams of real text examples.

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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. Panasonic announced a $4 billion plant in De Soto, Kansas that will create 4,000 jobs. Tesla’s Destination Charging Network consists of over 35,000 wall connectors at Destination Charging Sites, which include hotels, restaurants, and resorts. ChargerHelp!

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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This comparison of current interregional transfer capacity and anticipated need shows that regions will need to increase transmission significantly, assuming moderate load and high clean energy growth. National Transmission Needs Study,” U.S.

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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. Some of these modified structures have added-value properties that are currently used in a range of industrial applications.

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

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Comparison with fossil fuels. They estimated that, in 2009, 15-19% of irrigation water was used to produce the corn required for ethanol in Kansas and Nebraska without coproduct credits and 8-10% after credits. —Mishra and Yeh. Harvesting and converting the cob to ethanol reduces both the BW and GW intensities by 13%.

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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. Basic comparison of fuel consumption showed mean values of: Basic conventional: 6.6 L/100km (35.6 Hybrid (HEV): 4.69 L/100km (50.2 Split 4 kWh: 3.27

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