iLikeBatteries
By ILikeBatteries
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Episodes: 269
Description
Batteries are everywhere. Let's understand them better.
Join us each week as we discuss why we like batteries and learn more about the growing power of batteries around you each day.
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269: Batteries on the Move
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Nov 03, 2026 |
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268: Solar and Battery Magic on Matinicus Island in Maine
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Oct 20, 2026 |
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267: Flying Ions!
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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266: Just Run it in Reverse!
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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265: Which Pack Leads the Pack?
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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264: V2G4U
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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263: A Glimpse into the Future
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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262: An American Muscle EV?
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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261: Max, Mega, Mesh!
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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260: Woe, Woe, Woe your Battery down the River?
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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259: Moonshot
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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258: Lake Tahoe vs Data Centers
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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257: The Day the Delta Died
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May 19, 2026 |
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256: More Iron in Your Battery Diet on Earth Day
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May 05, 2026 |
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255: Just Some Non-Sense
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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254: iLikeSolar! Jeff's Panels are Up and Running!
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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253: Even F1 Has a Hard Time Getting It Right
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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252: NOT Shaken NOR Stirred
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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251: R2 or 3PO?
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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250: That's A LOT of Episodes...
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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249: Three Qi's For 2026!
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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248: Increasing Levers of Performance with Jill Pestana
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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247: Getting Super-Hyper-Local with Jill Pestana
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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246: Capital G, Captial P, little A
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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245: Has the venerable 18650 met its match?
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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244: You Spin Me Right Round...
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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243: It's a different kind of hybrid
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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242: Hindsight is 2025
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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241: That's, like, 1 kilowatt per ton
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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240: Batteries from the Salt of the Earth
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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239: Get Moving with the Ford eTransit!
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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238: Out Back By the Batteries with Todd Perry
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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237: Every Little Bit Helps
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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236: Apparently Ice Cream is OK
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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235: Wow, OK, So that's a Big Ferry!
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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234: A Plug for Taking a Journey on a Battery Powered Train?
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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233: Modeling Digital Battery Twins with the About:Energy Team
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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232: Unpacking How You Pack for Your Next Flight
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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231: Planes, Trains & Go-Karts (and Ships)
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May 20, 2025 |
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230: The Stretch Armstrong of Batteries?
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May 06, 2025 |
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229: We Asked AI About Our Podcast, and Then We Talked About Batteries Some More
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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228: Can you dig it (with batteries)?
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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227: More Battery & EV Fun with ASE Certified Master Technician Matt Lamontagne
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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226: It's (Potentially) Bad for Your Wallet...with Matt Lamontagne
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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225: How Fast is Fast? Jingyi Chen of Breathe Battery Technologies
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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224: The Episode that went Sideways
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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223: There's Always Something Going On in Las Vegas
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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222: A River Runs Dry?
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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221: Charging into 2025!
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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220: The Misadventures of Jeff's Ionic 5 Rental
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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219: We're Being a Little Salty
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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218: When the WORX Doesn't Work!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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217: Blown Away by Battery-Powered Lawn Equipment
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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216: Hello Hampton Academy (with a Chery on top)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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215: In a State of Flux
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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214: Refuge at Daybreak
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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213: How To Have a Magical Battery Day
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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212: Mike Rides the WAVE (2)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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211: Are Solid State Batteries coming to Portable Power Stations?
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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210: You might get fined, but you won't get charged
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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209: Uphill, Both Ways, In the Snow?!!
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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208: Going Back to the Future with Seagulls, Coffee and Pie
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May 28, 2024 |
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207: 207, 603, 802 and a foreign Yoyo
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May 14, 2024 |
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206: We're Not Getting Any Jungner
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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205: What on Earth do Ducks have to do with a Solar Eclipse?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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204: Self-healing Batteries Could Be Marvel-ous!
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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203: St. Patrick's Day Tribute: Ireland, Massachusetts, Finland, Curaçao
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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202: Sharpen Your Pencils
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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201: Test It Before You Toss It!
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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200: A Couple of 3%-ers Host a Podcast
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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199: What's cooler than being cool? ICE COLD!
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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198: Happy New Year...and an EV vs ICE race!
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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197: We're Not Retiring Anytime Soon
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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196: 10 Central Parks?
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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195: Happy Little Rivian Face
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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194: Battery Saving Time
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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193: What's New at Pale Blue?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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192: The Green Behind the Green of EV Batteries
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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191: Once You Go EV, You Never Go Back with Jesse Lore, founder of Green Wave EV
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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190: Jeff Buys a 747
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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189: Watch Out for Hilary
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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188: A Canoo That Doesn't Float
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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187: How Cool Are You?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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186: 75 to 90 Watt-Hour Power Stations for Under $100
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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185: Jeff's Alaska Adventure & Model Y Rental Experience
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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184: Remembering John B. Goodenough
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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183: Ample Room for Battery Swapping?
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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182: Indigenous Phosphate in Montreal?
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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181: What's Up with that Funky Shifter?
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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180: Car Talk for Batteries?
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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179: Don't Mix Your Water with your Battery
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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178: Your Food and Beverage Choices Are Up To You
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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177: Starting to Believe: NIO EVs with Swappable Batteries?
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May 30, 2023 |
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176: Big Batteries Down Under
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May 23, 2023 |
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175: Bye, Bye, Bolt
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May 16, 2023 |
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174: Sometimes the Zero is Significant
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May 09, 2023 |
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173: The Other Battery Bus
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May 02, 2023 |
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172: Swapping and Shedding and Heating
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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171: Batteries on Mars?
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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170: Who's Down with VPP?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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169: Let's Do Some Math
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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168: Electric Bill Breakdown
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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167: You Should Refine Your Lithium Closer to Home (with Saad Dara of Mangrove Lithium, Part 2)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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166: Battery Grade Lithium Refining, Part 1 with Saad Dara of Mangrove Lithium
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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165: Batteries Can Be Out of This World!
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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164: Tools of the Trade with Matt Lamontagne
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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163: Living the Degraded Battery Lifestyle with Matt Lamontagne
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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162: I Like Cooking with Batteries
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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161: Don't Boil Your Batteries
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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160: Extra Motors Aren't Free
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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159: Two Wind Turbines on a Stick?
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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158: All battery power, everywhere, all the time (CES 2023)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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157: Are You More Night Rider or Battlestar Galactica?
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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156: You Mean to Tell Me There's a Flame in There?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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155: The Polestar 2 Test Drive
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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154: Jeff's SnowJoe Arrives!
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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153: Don't Be So Harsh
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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152: Two-Stage Snow Throwers
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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151: Credit where Credit is Due
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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150: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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149: LFP-based Power Stations for under $250?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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148: It's Going to Have to Be Goodenough
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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147: Taming Thermal Runaway
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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146: BOTH of Jeff's Ego's on Display
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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145: Inverted AC/DC
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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144: Storm Surge
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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143: Going With the Flow on the River
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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142: Be Prepared for Under $100
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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141: You Should Know About the Battery Ingestion Hotline
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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140: High Fives with Tom Bishop of Paleblue (Part 2 of 2)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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139: I USB-C What You Did There with Tom Bishop of Paleblue (Part 1 of 2)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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138: Sig, Sig, Segway
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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137: Celebrating Battery Birthdays
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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136: It's Your Responsibility as a Rivian Owner
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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135: What's Older than Vintage?
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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134: The Case for Single Use Batteries
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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133: The Batteries of Our Lives
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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132: We're Big (on) Fans
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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131: Hubble-ing Along on Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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130: What if you just need to run out for some milk?
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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129: Sunny Day, Sweepin' the clouds away
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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128: Say Goodbye to Range Anxiety?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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127: A Matter of Voltage
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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126: Well Charged Ego's and Ryobi Skateboards?
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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125: Breaking Bad (Batteries)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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124: Little House of Batteries
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May 27, 2022 |
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123: Making Sense of Your Energy Usage
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May 20, 2022 |
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122: Powering Your Power Station
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May 13, 2022 |
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121: FIRST, Off the Shelf; THEN, Out of the Box
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May 06, 2022 |
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120: Some Batteries Are Misbehaving
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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119: Eat the Elephant One Bite at a Time
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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118: Why Are My Electrons More Expensive Now?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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117: Printing on the Go?
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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116: It Can't Work Just Once; What's Next with Sergrio Mendoza (Part 3 of 3)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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115: Digging Deeper into Battery Longevity with Sergio Mendoza (Part 2 of 3)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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114: Torturing Cells Until They Talk with Sergio Mendoza (Part 1 of 3)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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113: A Long, Casual Drive with Lots of Charging in the Middle
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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112: Ask Questions Later - Scott Case of Recurrent Auto (2 of 2)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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111: Wanderings in the Tropical Rain Forest - Scott Case of Recurrent Auto (1 of 2)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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110: Some Don't Like It Hot
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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109: Where Did My Lithium Go?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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108: Big Batteries On Campus: Ian Jones of Sunbolt, Part 2 of 2
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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107: Not That Bolt - Ian Jones of Sunbolt, Part 1
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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106: Don't buy a Leaf, Eventually We'll Tell You Why...
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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105: Shock the Battery
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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104: Up In Flames with Will Lenharth
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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103: Another Cycle Around the Sun
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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102: Jim Gregory and the PedalPC (Part 2 of 2)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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101: Jim Gregory and the PedalPC (Part 1 of 2)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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100: Finally Charged to 100
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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099: How Do You Get Fully Charged?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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098: Matt Lamontagne's Electric Ponies
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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097: Junk in the Frunk
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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096: Energizing Connections
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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095: A Date with Battery Dates, and Winter
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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094: Three Books and Some Soup
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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093: Don't Scarf My Solar Panel
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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092: Segway Segue Segway
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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091: Keep the Recycle Cycle Going
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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090: Enough Power To Go WAY BACK In Time
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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089: Are Batteries Jumping Ship?
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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088: Batteries and Hot Dogs
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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087: Controlled Thermal Events and the Future of Pyrotechnics
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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086: Hearts, Souls, and Checkbooks, with Shawn Murphy from Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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085: Like California on Steriods, with Shawn Murphy from Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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084: Better, Smarter, & Safer Batteries with Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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083: Batteries that Bounce
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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082: You Sank My SUB-marine!
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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081: Recycling Soapbox
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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080: Old Friends and Potatoes
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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079: Batteries and Water, Don't Mix!
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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078: Mini-UPS and New Eero Woes - We Know Jack
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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077: When Your Batteries Need to Rest
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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076: ICE, ICE, BEV-y
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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075: 80 is the New 100
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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074: Field Trip Follow-Up
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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073: Sometimes We're a Little Cooler
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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072: USB Plus!
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May 28, 2021 |
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071: The EV Crossover Show, Part 2
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May 21, 2021 |
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070: The EV Crossover Show, Part 1
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May 14, 2021 |
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069: Happy Little Batteries
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May 07, 2021 |
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068: Experts in Power
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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067: Avoiding Thermal Events with Matt Lamontagne
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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066: ICE cold truth of EV shopping
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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065: Why the Y, Brandon? - Part 2 of 2
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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064: Why the Y, Brandon? - Part 1 of 2
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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063: It is ok to be blue, maybe you'll find your sanctuary
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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062: Every Which Way But Loose
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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061: Mr. Wind and the Unexpected Test
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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060: Thank You for the Unplug
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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059: Those Battery Guys Will "Say Anything"
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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058: UPS Updates: Discovery of the Mini UPS
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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057: Jeff's UPS - The Traditional Approach
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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056: Jeff's UPS - In Which We Consider Power Stations
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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055: Pale Blue Earth (Part 2 of 2)
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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054: Pale Blue Earth (Part 1 of 2)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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053: UPS and downs
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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052: Throwing Some Snow Around
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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051: Lion Energy - Part 2 of 2
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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050: The Gift
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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049: Lion Energy - Part 1 of 2
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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048: Fully Charged for the Holidays
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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047: Bottom's Up!
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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046: Make a Wish!
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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045: The Rabbit Hole
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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044: Beans and Leaves
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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043: Hot Dogs?
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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042: Jackets, Vests, and Base Layers, Oh My!
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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041: Putting some Soles into your Shoes
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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040: Pandora's Glove Box
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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039: Electric Winter
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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038: Battery Day Commentary
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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037: Chi-Chi-USB? (or is that Qi-Qi-USB?)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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036: All Charged Up
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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035: Adventures in Battery Pack Building Land
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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034: Will You Be Our (Rock) Pals?
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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033: Go Big or Go Home
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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032: Jeff Goes Shopping
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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031: Dave Nanian Likes Battery-Powered Cars (Part 2 of 2)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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030: Dave Nanian Likes Battery-Powered Cars (Part 1 of 2)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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029: Portable Power Stations
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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028: Finding Your Qi
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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027: Battery Recovery Mode
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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026: Far Out Cool
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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025: It's Gonna Cost You
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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024: 18 x 65
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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023: High Voltage AC/DC
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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022: Best Light for Breakfast
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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021: Nature's Generator
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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020: Gravitricity
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May 29, 2020 |
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019: Socket to Me, Mike!
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May 28, 2020 |
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018: Deciwatt
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May 15, 2020 |
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017: Grass, Interrupted
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May 08, 2020 |
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016: Forced to Consider the Potential of a Gravity Battery
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May 04, 2020 |
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015: Can Batteries Be (in) Any Cooler?
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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014: The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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013: Worst Alarm Clock Ever
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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012: Not Your Delivery Company
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Episode 011: Not a Virus
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Episode 010: Scratching the Surface
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Episode 009: Leading the Charge
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Episode 008: Goal Zero - Part Two
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Episode 007: Goal Zero - Part One
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Episode 006: Don't Be the One to Close the Loop
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Episode 005: Jeff Goes Skiing
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Episode 004: Jiggy Watts
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Episode 003: Try to Contain Yourself
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Episode 002: Set Your VCR
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Episode 001: Thank You, Ben Franklin
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Jan 12, 2020 |