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Frost & Sullivan analysis suggests momentum toward supplementary 48V on-board power-net

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Starting in the mid-1990s, the auto industry began considering a 42V power-net (for reasons similar to those noted above), and created a formal consortium, headquartered at MIT—the MIT/Industry Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical/Electronic Components and Systems —to help implement the standard.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped. [ MIT ] RoboCup teams probably use their humanoids more aggressively than anyone else, so they have to come up with new techniques to keep them walking even as they gradually get more and more worn out.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

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However, until mainstream public confidence reaches the point where the perceived combination of risks of a battery electric vehicle purchase (range, affordability, reliability and behavioral changes) match that of an ICE vehicle, then EV purchases are going to be the exception rather than the norm. How much range is enough?

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