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iLikeBatteries — 256 episodes

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256: More Iron in Your Battery Diet on Earth Day

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255: Just Some Non-Sense

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254: iLikeSolar! Jeff's Panels are Up and Running!

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253: Even F1 Has a Hard Time Getting It Right

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252: NOT Shaken NOR Stirred

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251: R2 or 3PO?

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250: That's A LOT of Episodes...

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249: Three Qi's For 2026!

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248: Increasing Levers of Performance with Jill Pestana

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247: Getting Super-Hyper-Local with Jill Pestana

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246: Capital G, Captial P, little A

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245: Has the venerable 18650 met its match?

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244: You Spin Me Right Round...

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243: It's a different kind of hybrid

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242: Hindsight is 2025

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241: That's, like, 1 kilowatt per ton

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240: Batteries from the Salt of the Earth

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239: Get Moving with the Ford eTransit!

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238: Out Back By the Batteries with Todd Perry

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237: Every Little Bit Helps

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236: Apparently Ice Cream is OK

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235: Wow, OK, So that's a Big Ferry!

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234: A Plug for Taking a Journey on a Battery Powered Train?

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233: Modeling Digital Battery Twins with the About:Energy Team

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232: Unpacking How You Pack for Your Next Flight

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231: Planes, Trains & Go-Karts (and Ships)

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230: The Stretch Armstrong of Batteries?

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229: We Asked AI About Our Podcast, and Then We Talked About Batteries Some More

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228: Can you dig it (with batteries)?

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227: More Battery & EV Fun with ASE Certified Master Technician Matt Lamontagne

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226: It's (Potentially) Bad for Your Wallet...with Matt Lamontagne

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225: How Fast is Fast? Jingyi Chen of Breathe Battery Technologies

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224: The Episode that went Sideways

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223: There's Always Something Going On in Las Vegas

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222: A River Runs Dry?

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221: Charging into 2025!

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220: The Misadventures of Jeff's Ionic 5 Rental

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219: We're Being a Little Salty

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218: When the WORX Doesn't Work!

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217: Blown Away by Battery-Powered Lawn Equipment

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216: Hello Hampton Academy (with a Chery on top)

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215: In a State of Flux

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214: Refuge at Daybreak

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213: How To Have a Magical Battery Day

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212: Mike Rides the WAVE (2)

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211: Are Solid State Batteries coming to Portable Power Stations?

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210: You might get fined, but you won't get charged

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209: Uphill, Both Ways, In the Snow?!!

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208: Going Back to the Future with Seagulls, Coffee and Pie

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207: 207, 603, 802 and a foreign Yoyo

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206: We're Not Getting Any Jungner

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205: What on Earth do Ducks have to do with a Solar Eclipse?

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204: Self-healing Batteries Could Be Marvel-ous!

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203: St. Patrick's Day Tribute: Ireland, Massachusetts, Finland, Curaçao

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202: Sharpen Your Pencils

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201: Test It Before You Toss It!

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200: A Couple of 3%-ers Host a Podcast

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199: What's cooler than being cool? ICE COLD!

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198: Happy New Year...and an EV vs ICE race!

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197: We're Not Retiring Anytime Soon

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196: 10 Central Parks?

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195: Happy Little Rivian Face

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194: Battery Saving Time

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193: What's New at Pale Blue?

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192: The Green Behind the Green of EV Batteries

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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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190: Jeff Buys a 747

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189: Watch Out for Hilary

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188: A Canoo That Doesn't Float

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187: How Cool Are You?

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186: 75 to 90 Watt-Hour Power Stations for Under $100

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185: Jeff's Alaska Adventure & Model Y Rental Experience

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184: Remembering John B. Goodenough

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183: Ample Room for Battery Swapping?

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182: Indigenous Phosphate in Montreal?

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181: What's Up with that Funky Shifter?

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180: Car Talk for Batteries?

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179: Don't Mix Your Water with your Battery

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178: Your Food and Beverage Choices Are Up To You

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177: Starting to Believe: NIO EVs with Swappable Batteries?

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176: Big Batteries Down Under

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175: Bye, Bye, Bolt

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174: Sometimes the Zero is Significant

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173: The Other Battery Bus

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172: Swapping and Shedding and Heating

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171: Batteries on Mars?

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170: Who's Down with VPP?

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169: Let's Do Some Math

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168: Electric Bill Breakdown

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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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166: Battery Grade Lithium Refining, Part 1 with Saad Dara of Mangrove Lithium

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165: Batteries Can Be Out of This World!

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164: Tools of the Trade with Matt Lamontagne

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163: Living the Degraded Battery Lifestyle with Matt Lamontagne

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162: I Like Cooking with Batteries

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161: Don't Boil Your Batteries

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160: Extra Motors Aren't Free

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159: Two Wind Turbines on a Stick?

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158: All battery power, everywhere, all the time (CES 2023)

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157: Are You More Night Rider or Battlestar Galactica?

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156: You Mean to Tell Me There's a Flame in There?

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155: The Polestar 2 Test Drive

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154: Jeff's SnowJoe Arrives!

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153: Don't Be So Harsh

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152: Two-Stage Snow Throwers

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151: Credit where Credit is Due

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150: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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149: LFP-based Power Stations for under $250?

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148: It's Going to Have to Be Goodenough

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147: Taming Thermal Runaway

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146: BOTH of Jeff's Ego's on Display

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145: Inverted AC/DC

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144: Storm Surge

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143: Going With the Flow on the River

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142: Be Prepared for Under $100

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141: You Should Know About the Battery Ingestion Hotline

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140: High Fives with Tom Bishop of Paleblue (Part 2 of 2)

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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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138: Sig, Sig, Segway

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137: Celebrating Battery Birthdays

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136: It's Your Responsibility as a Rivian Owner

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135: What's Older than Vintage?

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134: The Case for Single Use Batteries

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133: The Batteries of Our Lives

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132: We're Big (on) Fans

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131: Hubble-ing Along on Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries

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130: What if you just need to run out for some milk?

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129: Sunny Day, Sweepin' the clouds away

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128: Say Goodbye to Range Anxiety?

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127: A Matter of Voltage

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126: Well Charged Ego's and Ryobi Skateboards?

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125: Breaking Bad (Batteries)

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124: Little House of Batteries

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123: Making Sense of Your Energy Usage

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122: Powering Your Power Station

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121: FIRST, Off the Shelf; THEN, Out of the Box

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120: Some Batteries Are Misbehaving

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119: Eat the Elephant One Bite at a Time

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118: Why Are My Electrons More Expensive Now?

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117: Printing on the Go?

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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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115: Digging Deeper into Battery Longevity with Sergio Mendoza (Part 2 of 3)

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114: Torturing Cells Until They Talk with Sergio Mendoza (Part 1 of 3)

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113: A Long, Casual Drive with Lots of Charging in the Middle

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112: Ask Questions Later - Scott Case of Recurrent Auto (2 of 2)

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111: Wanderings in the Tropical Rain Forest - Scott Case of Recurrent Auto (1 of 2)

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110: Some Don't Like It Hot

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109: Where Did My Lithium Go?

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108: Big Batteries On Campus: Ian Jones of Sunbolt, Part 2 of 2

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107: Not That Bolt - Ian Jones of Sunbolt, Part 1

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106: Don't buy a Leaf, Eventually We'll Tell You Why...

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105: Shock the Battery

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104: Up In Flames with Will Lenharth

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103: Another Cycle Around the Sun

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102: Jim Gregory and the PedalPC (Part 2 of 2)

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101: Jim Gregory and the PedalPC (Part 1 of 2)

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100: Finally Charged to 100

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099: How Do You Get Fully Charged?

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098: Matt Lamontagne's Electric Ponies

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097: Junk in the Frunk

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096: Energizing Connections

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095: A Date with Battery Dates, and Winter

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094: Three Books and Some Soup

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093: Don't Scarf My Solar Panel

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092: Segway Segue Segway

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091: Keep the Recycle Cycle Going

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090: Enough Power To Go WAY BACK In Time

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089: Are Batteries Jumping Ship?

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088: Batteries and Hot Dogs

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087: Controlled Thermal Events and the Future of Pyrotechnics

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086: Hearts, Souls, and Checkbooks, with Shawn Murphy from Titan Advanced Energy Solutions

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085: Like California on Steriods, with Shawn Murphy from Titan Advanced Energy Solutions

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084: Better, Smarter, & Safer Batteries with Titan Advanced Energy Solutions

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083: Batteries that Bounce

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082: You Sank My SUB-marine!

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081: Recycling Soapbox

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080: Old Friends and Potatoes

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079: Batteries and Water, Don't Mix!

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078: Mini-UPS and New Eero Woes - We Know Jack

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077: When Your Batteries Need to Rest

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076: ICE, ICE, BEV-y

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075: 80 is the New 100

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074: Field Trip Follow-Up

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073: Sometimes We're a Little Cooler

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072: USB Plus!

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071: The EV Crossover Show, Part 2

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070: The EV Crossover Show, Part 1

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069: Happy Little Batteries

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068: Experts in Power

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067: Avoiding Thermal Events with Matt Lamontagne

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066: ICE cold truth of EV shopping

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065: Why the Y, Brandon? - Part 2 of 2

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064: Why the Y, Brandon? - Part 1 of 2

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063: It is ok to be blue, maybe you'll find your sanctuary

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062: Every Which Way But Loose

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061: Mr. Wind and the Unexpected Test

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060: Thank You for the Unplug

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059: Those Battery Guys Will "Say Anything"

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058: UPS Updates: Discovery of the Mini UPS

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057: Jeff's UPS - The Traditional Approach

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056: Jeff's UPS - In Which We Consider Power Stations

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055: Pale Blue Earth (Part 2 of 2)

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054: Pale Blue Earth (Part 1 of 2)

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053: UPS and downs

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052: Throwing Some Snow Around

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051: Lion Energy - Part 2 of 2

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050: The Gift

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049: Lion Energy - Part 1 of 2

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048: Fully Charged for the Holidays

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047: Bottom's Up!

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046: Make a Wish!

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045: The Rabbit Hole

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044: Beans and Leaves

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043: Hot Dogs?

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042: Jackets, Vests, and Base Layers, Oh My!

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041: Putting some Soles into your Shoes

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040: Pandora's Glove Box

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039: Electric Winter

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038: Battery Day Commentary

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037: Chi-Chi-USB? (or is that Qi-Qi-USB?)

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036: All Charged Up

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035: Adventures in Battery Pack Building Land

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034: Will You Be Our (Rock) Pals?

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033: Go Big or Go Home

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032: Jeff Goes Shopping

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031: Dave Nanian Likes Battery-Powered Cars (Part 2 of 2)

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030: Dave Nanian Likes Battery-Powered Cars (Part 1 of 2)

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029: Portable Power Stations

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028: Finding Your Qi

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027: Battery Recovery Mode

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026: Far Out Cool

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025: It's Gonna Cost You

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024: 18 x 65

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023: High Voltage AC/DC

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022: Best Light for Breakfast

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021: Nature's Generator

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020: Gravitricity

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019: Socket to Me, Mike!

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018: Deciwatt

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017: Grass, Interrupted

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016: Forced to Consider the Potential of a Gravity Battery

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015: Can Batteries Be (in) Any Cooler?

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014: The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play

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013: Worst Alarm Clock Ever

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012: Not Your Delivery Company

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Episode 011: Not a Virus

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Episode 010: Scratching the Surface

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Episode 009: Leading the Charge

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Episode 008: Goal Zero - Part Two

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Episode 007: Goal Zero - Part One

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Episode 006: Don't Be the One to Close the Loop

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Episode 005: Jeff Goes Skiing

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Episode 004: Jiggy Watts

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Episode 003: Try to Contain Yourself

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Episode 002: Set Your VCR

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Episode 001: Thank You, Ben Franklin