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GM enters commercial agreement with and invests in Powermat, a personal device inductive charging company

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General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012.

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Solazyme announces successful commissioning of integrated renewable oil production biorefinery in Peoria, Illinois

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Solazyme has been running routine fermentations at commercial scale since 2007 and began running fermentation operations at the Peoria facility in Q4 2011. With the successful production of algal oil from the integrated facility this month, Solazyme has met its start-up goals for the facility on schedule. Solazyme, Inc.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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EPA annual report on CO2, fuel economy and technology trends finds 2012 heading for all-time best; rapid adoption of new technologies

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report summarizing key trends in carbon dioxide emissions, fuel economy, and CO 2 - and fuel economy-related technology for gasoline- and diesel-fueled personal vehicles sold in the United States, from model years (MY) 1975 through 2012. l/100km) or more.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Unfortunately the floptical disk flopped, losing out to products like Iomega’s iconic Zip drives. inch floppy.

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TomTom extends coverage of real-time traffic products for congestion reduction

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TomTom, the leading supplier of in-car location and navigation products and services, has extended its HD Traffic portfolio of real-time (updates every 2 minutes) traffic products for congestion reduction with the addition of Australia, Canada, Luxembourg and Poland, bringing the total count of countries covered to 18.

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Vitruivan crowd-sourcing funding for novel biofuel from sewage treatment bio-solids

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EEB is produced in a complex reaction mixture along with at least 2 high-value chemicals used as intermediates in several manufacturing sectors; the resulting biofuel is a mix of products from esterification of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) with ethanol. Vitruvian has modeled production costs at $2.58-3.73 per gallon.