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Ford, Jose Cuervo team up to make car parts with bioplastic reinforced with blue agave fibers

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Success in developing a sustainable composite could reduce vehicle weight and lower energy consumption, while paring the use of petrochemicals and the impact of vehicle production on the environment. The leaves are left as bagasse after harvesting the heads for tequila production. 13 mm wide. mm with an average width of 25 μm.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. CPI, established in 2001, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Chem of Korea. The Li-ion cells are produced in either Korea or China; CPI has the long-term goal of localizing cell production in the States. Company Overview.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. Conversions are limited to certain vehicle types. So far, most start as hybrids.

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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software

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Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Lucas, aiming to digitize the film production process, recruited Catmull in 1979 to head the company’s newly created computer division. We turned a prototype of the Pixar image computer into a product.

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An interview with Riversimple

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Does this mean you don’t expect large-scale investment and production into the Urban Car? However, we do believe that migration from steel to composites as the key structural material for automotive production leads to a much lower optimal scale of production for vehicles. A: We don’t want to have onboard production of hydrogen.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Bots for Tots - Here’s how three teenagers built a botnet that could take down the Internet The Mirai botnet, with all its devastating potential, was not the product of an organized-crime or nation-state hacking group—it was put together by three teenage boys. Their struggle for dominance in cyberspace would create a doomsday machine.

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