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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I By this time, Sony was considering developing its own rechargeable lithium battery, according to its corporate history. But he found no takers.

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Why Countries Like India Desperately Need EV Battery Standardization

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Furthermore, vehicle manufacturers are frequently both legally and financially obligated to remove and recycle these batteries. In India, Niti Ayog’s electric vehicle mobility plans encourage the sale of only electric vehicles after 2030 to reduce carbon emissions and broaden the reach of clean energy.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. In this way, more than 300 million credits—each representing the equivalent of one metric ton of carbon dioxide—have been generated. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment – alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices – to America’s plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S. While the 1972 U.S.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” Smith et al.,

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. Besides, what do you expect for nothing, on-line?

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. That looks like an early attempt at finding dark data at this corporate level. And the big challenge there is that a lot of the data is contained, not in beautifully homogeneous, joinable, relatable databases. At least, that's the strategy of a startup called Vyasa.