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MIT study finds workplace charging and delayed home charging can mitigate electricity demand and cost

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A new study by MIT researchers examines these risks and how they amplify or mitigate each other. The researchers used data collected in two sample cities: New York and Dallas.

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Study: Workplace EV charging could cut need for more power plants

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Thorough planning of EV charging station placement, specifically with a greater emphasis on workplace charging, could cut the need for more power plants, according to a new MIT study.

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Video Friday: Robot, Make me Coffee

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On the heels of our Dallas-wide FAA approvals, today we announced that millions of new DFW-area customers will have access to drone delivery in 2024! MIT ] Meet DJI’s first delivery drone—FlyCart 30. This time, there’s Perseverance ’s view of Ingenuity taking off, a test of the EELS robot, and an unusual sample tube drop test. [

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. Markus Zahn Professor emeritus at MIT Life Fellow, 75; died 13 March Zahn was a professor of electrical engineering for 50 years. He taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1970 and worked there for 10 years before joining MIT , where he spent the remainder of his career.

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Texas study finds PHEV use could increase ozone at night, decrease ozone during the day

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The team modeled the air quality impacts of replacing approximately 20% of the gasoline-powered light duty vehicle miles traveled (VMT) with electric VMT by the year 2018 for four major cities in Texas: Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston. Tammy M Thompson et al.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a direct production process for copper wire, using molten sulfide electrolysis as a replacement for the traditional pyro-metallurgical process. University of Texas at Dallas. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2,417,938.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 2 August 1985, Estridge, his wife, Mary Ann, and a handful of IBM salesmen from Los Angeles boarded Delta Flight 191 headed to Dallas. Over the Dallas airport, 700 feet off the ground, a strong downdraft slammed the plane to the ground, killing 137 people including the Estridges and all but one of the other IBM employees.

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