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Tesla Stores Changing Dealer Relationship, Says Ex-Apple Exec At Ford Seminar

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Apparently, you can learn a lot about Tesla Motors at a Ford seminar. Tesla''s unusual sales model--which eschews traditional franchised dealerships for direct-sale retail stores--could change the way people buy cars, a former strategic planning leader for Apple said at a Ford panel on global trends last week.

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Norwegian shipping industry pursuing battery-powered ships

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Some 120 managers representing the entire maritime cluster gathered at a DNV seminar last week. Electricity stored in batteries on board ships is another opportunity in the future energy mix and another technology race has started. And when in harbor, the vessel should be able to simply use power stored in the batteries.

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EnerDel to Supply Batteries for Japanese Electric Bus Demo

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It is the third such announcement from the “Green Crossover Town,” an EnerDel-ITOCHU collaboration, previewed at EnerDel’s technical seminar last week in Indiana. The project was initiated last April by Hokuriku Electric Power Company, which is headquartered in Toyama, in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Video Friday: Preparing for the SubT Final

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ARL ] I'm still as skeptical as I ever was about a big and almost certainly expensive two-armed robot that can do whatever you can program it to do (have fun with that) and seems to rely on an app store for functionality. ICRA 2021 ] CMU RI Seminars are back! ICRA 2021 ] CMU RI Seminars are back! CMU RI Seminar ].

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Ongoing market rollout for SAE hydrogen fueling standards

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As with the J2601 protocol, the MC Fill fast-fill protocol, developed by Honda R&D, is designed for fuel systems that store hydrogen at a pressure of up to 700 bar (70MPa or 10,000 psi). Earlier post.) MC can be thought of as a heat sink or thermal mass.

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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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By chance, months earlier, I had attended a seminar that mentioned blast wavesshock waves produced by a point-source explosion. That seminar convinced me that our observations could give me the energy measurement I was looking for. Every plasma event was sending out a spherical shock front that expanded in a steady way.

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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This 10 kW/12 kWh residential cube will be providing home owners with power quality, uninterruptible power back up, and the ability to store energy from renewable sources such as solar and wind. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar, UIUC). —Tom Granville. Thelen (2011) Energy Savings, a.

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