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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

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The city of Davis, California is putting two in. Data centers use so much energy, they want something that’s solar-augmented, so they can provide EV charging without having any impact on their load. We’re talking to cities. We actually have a bunch of PairTrees being installed this summer.

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Driving to Moab In The 2025 Land Rover Defender Octa

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Watch to see Davy Jones jump it AND coach me through my own baja track drive! We had race car driver Davy Jones take us on a two-mile rally track at about 60 mph. We took it on an 8-hour drive from Western Colorado to Moab, Utah, one of the most epic of off-road driving locations in the US, to put it to the test.

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IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Changes Students’ Lives

Cars That Think

The scholarship helped support his education at the University of California, Davis , where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering. “It His winning project, Low-Cost Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy , focused on building a microscope for classrooms, both for demonstrations and student-level research.

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A New BCI Instantly Synthesizes Speech

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Neuroprosthesis Reproduces a Man’s Speech UC Davis In experiments, the scientists found that the BCI could detect key aspects of intended vocal intonation. UC Davis “We do not claim that this system is ready to be used to speak and have conversations by someone who has lost the ability to speak,” Wairagkar says.

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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

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BMW is providing the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis with ten battery-electric, BMW i3 models for 18 months. Eight of the pre-owned vehicles will be available soon for UC Davis faculty and staff to rent through the campus’s UC Drive program, which is managed by the Fleet Services department.

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UC Davis process produces gasoline-range hydrocarbons from biomass-derived levulinic acid; field-to-tank yield of >60% claimed

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Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge. gallons US).

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Zipcar introduces Honda Fit EV into UC Davis West Village fleet

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Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. Zipcar has had vehicles on campus at UC Davis since 2009.

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