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Renault and Itaipu to collaborate on EVs in Brazil

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The cars, supplied by Renault, will be imported as incompletely disassembled kits for restricted use by Itaipu and partner institutions of the EV Program. With 20 generator units and 14,000 MW of installed capacity, it provides approximately 17.3% The previous record was in 2000 when Itaipu generated 93,427,598 MWh.

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Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

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Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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ONR developing offensive autonomous swarming capability for unmanned surface vehicles; adapting JPL’s CARACaS

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The technology under development—based on the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing ( CARACaS ) developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—can be put into a transportable kit and installed on almost any boat.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., And finally, they estimated that sales might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.”

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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He went on to own a Rover 2000, which was the most handsome looking car of its time. In the early 2000s he picked up his first electric car - the Revai. The NMC cells usually show a life of 2000 cycles in the lab, compared to the 4000 of LFP. The womenfolk created some sewing kits and embroidery frames.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Newly installed CEO Fritz Henderson argues that pioneering projects like the Volt typically lose money until the technology catches on. If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 It is simply the cost of doing business.

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