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Daimler joins multiple initiatives for a sustainable raw material supply chain; future focus on battery cell supply chain

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In addition, joint training and workshops are offered for suppliers to help them improve their sustainability performance. —Renata Jungo Brüngger, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG for Integrity and Legal Affairs. An important tool developed there is a uniform sustainability questionnaire.

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

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Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. It collects insights held at a workshop organized by the International Transport Forum in June 2018 in Paris and features the results of a survey among experts.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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