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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada celebrates 1 million battery pack milestone

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Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada has achieved an incredible milestone. A picture of Gigafactory Nevada’s 1,000,000th battery was posted on the r/TeslaMotors subreddit. The special occasion was commemorated by the Giga Nevada team, with the battery pack being signed by numerous employees.

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Tesla Giga Berlin welcomes 120 apprentices and dual students for training

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Start ins #Ausbildungsjahr mit 120 Azubis & dual Studierenden bei @Tesla (Foto) in Grünheide. The company also partners with US community colleges to offer a federal and state-certified Tool & Die Apprenticeship program at the Fremont Factory, Gigafactory Nevada, and Tesla Grand Rapids.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Army during the Korean War, he participated in an atomic bomb test in Nevada. Joel Moses MIT professor emeritus Life Fellow, 80; died 29 May Moses taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT for 50 years. He probably was best known for developing Macsyma , MIT Project MAC’s symbolic manipulator.

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Feature: Are Eco-Friendly Cars Expensive to Own?

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A study conducted by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) compared the lifetime costs of owning a gas-powered vehicle versus that of owning an eco-friendly vehicle. MIT’s charts reveal that the most expensive all-electric vehicle to own costs its owners no more than $600 a month on average.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top]. Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash.,

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. Nevada Las. The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) will develop a new, fire-resistant electrolyte to make today’s Lithium-ion (Li-ion). This process. Massachusetts.

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