MIT Student Ingenuity Plus High-Tech Batteries Yields Advanced All-Electric Porsche
With a click and a hum, the sleek Porsche 914 pulled away from the curb while onlookers watched anxiously and the passenger gazed down at a laptop plugged into the dashboard.
Why the drama? Once powered by a conventional gasoline engine, the 1976 Porsche now operates on 18 high-tech batteries, the result of work by dedicated MIT students and their mentors. Converting the car to an advanced electric vehicle is an achievement in itself and serves to demonstrate the viability of the technology. But for the students, the real fun starts now.
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Batteries Used as Back-Up Power for New Terrestrial Microwave Network That Will Improve Communications in Southeast Alaska
Alaska Power & Telephone Company, an Alaskan electric and telecommunications utility, determined a need for a terrestrial microwave communications network within its strategic plan to serve the ongoing demands of its customer base to deliver voice and data communications needs within Southeast Alaska. Although the industry trend is to develop extensive fiber optic networks for long haul applications, this was neither practical nor economical in this geographically diverse region of Alaska.
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New Battery Technology Helps Stimulate Nerves
With the help of new silicon-based compounds, scientists and patients are getting a significant new charge out of the tiny lithium batteries used in implantable devices to help treat nervous system and other disorders. |
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Bayer MaterialScience Paves the Way for Innovative Electronic Applications
Is it at all possible to improve a mundane everyday item such as a pair of tweezers? After all, it has the simplest of forms and has worked reliably for as long as anyone can remember. |
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World’s Largest Battery Energy Storage System Completes Third Year of Operation
The world’s most powerful battery energy storage system (BESS) has completed its third year in operation. Operated since 2003 by Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) located in Fairbanks, Ala., the BESS has prevented more than 734,000 customer electrical outages while responding to 163 emergency ‘events.’ |
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GM's Concept Electric Vehicle Could Nearly Eliminate Trips to the Gas Station
The Chevrolet Volt concept sedan, powered by the E-flex System, GM’s next-generation electric propulsion system, could nearly eliminate trips to the gas station. |
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EnerGenius IQ Opens Powerful Opportunities for Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy is a combination electricity and natural gas energy company, offering a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.3 million electricity customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers. Xcel Energy is committed to customer satisfaction by continuously improving its operations to be a low-cost, reliable, environmentally sound energy provider. |
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Lithium Technology Corp. Takes Unmanned Underwater Vehicles To New Depths
Lithium Technology Corp. (LTC) has developed, in conjunction with Phoenix International, Inc., a marine services contractor, a high performance pressure-tolerant battery for unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) applications. UUVs are increasingly used to perform underwater work faster and more efficiently while removing the need for a manned presence from an inherently dangerous environment. |
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