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DOE’s Manufacturing Institute to award $35M to support R&D in recycling, reuse and remanufacturing

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The overall goal of this project is the development and application of a software plug-in to enable the design of components that will satisfy both EPA standards-driven light weighting efforts and parametric feature designs that enable remanufacturability (e.g.,

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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Its newest one, which opened in March in Moscow, Idaho, fabricates printed circuit boards. In 2016 his company released the SEL-T400L , which samples a power system every microsecond to detect the time between traveling waves moving at the speed of light. He started SEL with seven workers; it now has more than 6,000.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Hawai`i Electric Light. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. Kansas City Power & Light. Idaho National Laboratory. Hawai`i Electric Light Company. Duke Energy. Edison Electric Institute. Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA).

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Heidi On The Hot Seat

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Just one solitary person tasked with coordinating the entire regions’ emissions inventory and helping each city create its climate action plan to reduce its carbon footprint. Street Lights and Traffic Signals. It hardly seems fair. You will find no reason yet for such hope at the local level. Vehicle Fleet. Water and Sewer.

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The EV Transition Explained: Converting Gasoline Superusers

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Passenger cars and light duty trucks account for about 57 percent of those totals. Then there is the willingness of hundreds of millions of ICE vehicle drivers the world over to alter their personal behaviors, lifestyles, and for many their livelihoods, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. and a similar amount in Europe.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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The impetus for this change came from a study by the US Idaho National Lab [ 2 ]. A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” However, just as the body begins to repair itself when a person ceases to smoke, it is not too late for Earth to repair itself.

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