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Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA  ) plans to more than double its workforce in Hong Kong to more than 100 people by the end of the year, according to a recent press release on the Hong Kong government’s website that quotes Tesla’s vice president of China operations Veronica Wu. This expansion is due to anticipated increased demand for the Model S and

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SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk, in his quest to transform Tesla Motors from a scrappy electric-vehicle startup into a mature, profitable automaker, may have an ace up his sleeve: used cars. Tesla is developing a program to sell the Model S secondhand, Automotive News has learned, in a bid to lower the cost of entry for the $71,070 sedan and

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Belarus’ first station to offer quick charging to electric cars in compliance with the CHAdeMO standard will be opened at an exit from Minsk (the direction of Logoisk) on 9 October, the organizers of the event told BelTA. The station will allow electric cars to recharge their accumulators within only 30 minutes, which is 12 times shorter than the time

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Belarus’ first station to offer quick charging to electric cars in compliance with the CHAdeMO standard will be opened at an exit from Minsk (the direction of Logoisk) on 9 October, the organizers of the event told BelTA. The station will allow electric cars to recharge their accumulators within only 30 minutes, which is 12 times shorter than the time

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Nebraska City officials are giving some juice to a program promoting the use of electric vehicles throughout the state.On Monday night, the Nebraska City City Council approved the purchase and installation of a charging station, and the leasing of a Nissan Leaf electric vehicle. Nebraska City Administrator Joe Johnson tells KMA News the program is made possible through funding from

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Last Friday, the Omaha Chamber of Commerce arranged to have Michael Mullis, the CEO of J.M. Mullis, Inc. give an hour-long talk on the Gallup campus. Mullis’ firm specializes in finding locations for companies to either relocate or expand; many of them Fortune 500 organizations. What attracted me to the 7:30 AM event downtown was the promotional announcement that he

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The new lab, an extension to the existing eLab battery research centre, is run by research institute ZSW and offers industrial partners the possibility to develop, test and optimise battery materials and formulations as well as manufacturing processes and equipment. Currently, first equipment tests are conducted in the lab which offers a space of 3.600 square meters (39.000 square feet)

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The new method for studying battery failures points to the next step in extending lithium ion battery lifetime and capacity, opening a path to wider use of these batteries in conjunction with renewable energy sources. Lithium ions strain the material as they shuttle between electrodes and can even alter its structure, which lead to defects. Designs for more resilient electrodes

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This technology, published online in Nature Communications, taps into the power of a single electron to control energy consumption inside transistors, which are at the core of most modern electronic systems. Researchers from the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science found that by adding a specific atomic thin film layer to a transistor, the layer acted as a

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India is on a fast-track to boost its solar power capacity, and as the investors flock to its solar power market, no state would stand to gain more than the western state of Rajasthan. The Rajasthan state government has a policy that dwarfs the national solar power policy itself. While the current national policy aims at 22 GW installed capacity

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