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This old Texas wind farm now makes more power with fewer turbines

Baua Electric

Brazos was initially completed in December 2003 and featured 160 1-MW wind turbines capable of powering around 30,000 homes. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way. Get started here. –ad*

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen launched the first production dual clutch transmission in 2003 as the Volkswagen 6-speed DSG, which was initially used in the Golf R32 and the Audi TT. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, had announced Volkswagen was working on the 10-speed at the same event in 2013. 10-speed DSG.

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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

Cars That Think

Based in London, it organizes networking events, funds prizes and grants, and arranges visits to interesting engineering projects around the country. He was hired in 2003 as a project engineer and was trained on the basic principles of how railways work and also the unique form of relay logic used to design railway signaling systems.

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Honda signs E-KIZUNA project agreement with City of Saitama for EV, PHEV and electric scooter testing; new household gas cogen unit with more efficient EXlink engine

Green Car Congress

Honda will also be exploring the system’s potential to independently produce electricity for the household in the event of a disaster. In 2003, Honda began sales of its first compact household cogeneration unit, which combined a gas engine with Honda’s original sine wave inverter power generation technology.

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

Cars That Think

Earlier in his career, he had cofounded Acorn Computers , which developed one of the first reduced-instruction-set personal computers and had spun off the chip-design company Arm. After receiving her MBA in 2003, the company hired her as a junior member of its investment team, and Hauser became one of her mentors.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It As an example, Freund referenced an EAASV history highlight, Tesla CTO J.B. Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

Green Car Congress

KPMG International is hosting the event, in cooperation with the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). billion in 2005. Yet the OECD projects that forest areas will decline globally by 13% from 2005 to 2030, mostly in South Asia and Africa.