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Here’s a list of every county suing Tesla for its handling of hazardous waste

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Credit: peekaystudio/Instagram ) Tesla is said to use lubricating oils, brake fluids, lead acid batteries, aerosols, antifreeze, cleaning fluids, propane, paint, acetone, liquefied petroleum gas, adhesives, and diesel fuel at its Fremont Factory in Northern California. ” Tesla’s Fremont Factory. .”

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BNSF Railway and Vehicle Projects Demonstrate Experimental Hydrogen Fuelcell Hybrid Switch Locomotive

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Late this summer or early fall, depending on the outcome of the testing, the locomotive will go into service in the Los Angeles Basin, where it will face the test of actual service in the railroad environment. It stores 70 kg hydrogen at 350 bar (5,100 psi) at roofline. A lead-acid traction battery allows transients above 1 MW.

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Study finds hybrid tugboat delivers significant reduction in criteria pollutant emissions compared to conventional version

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It also has 126 soft gel lead acid batteries for power storage that are separated into two arrays with 63 batteries each. Each array stores 170.1 Built by Seattle-based Foss Maritime, it began working the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in January 2009. kWh of energy when fully charged.

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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University of California Los Angeles. Long-Life, Acid-Based Battery. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will develop a new acid-based, high-power, long-life battery that addresses the cycle life issues plaguing lead-acid batteries today. Penn State University. 999,088.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library The engineers at AC Propulsion (ACP) were familiar with the basic precepts of bidirectional EV power.

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Mazda to offer diesel Mazda6 in North America in second half of 2013; i-ELOOP and SCBS

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The 2014 Mazda6 sedan made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. A big focus of the development was how to generate and store electricity as efficiently as possible because the opportunity to do this, the period when a car is braking or decelerating, is by nature very short. Click to enlarge.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

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That means you can drive around town as an electric car, and then jump on the freeway and head to Los Angeles, without having to recharge the battery. Guzyk installs twenty lead-acid batteries packaged together in a suitcase-like steel box that he locates in the trunk just above the spare tire. The conversion is simple.

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