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MARCH 15, 2024

Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. Rus’ experience gives her a deep and nuanced perspective on robotics’ past and future, and we’re able to share a little bit of that with you here. Remember, robots are tools. So, drones can be dancers, too.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The BMW Group is developing future generations of battery cells at the new Competence Center, focusing on customer-relevant aspects, such as improving energy density, available peak output, service life, safety, charging characteristics and performance at varying temperatures, and reducing battery costs.

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JUNE 20, 2013

As a result, Sivak concludes, it is likely that the declines in these rates prior to 2008 reflect other societal changes that influence the need for vehicles (such as, increases in telecommuting and in the use of public transportation). million in 2008. The number reached a maximum of 236.4 —Michael Sivak. In 1984 there were 0.66

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JUNE 8, 2018

Scientists from Emory University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board teamed to analyze satellite data to determine the 15-year trend of PM 2.5 pollution in the state. is especially burdensome in California and accounts for the greatest percentage of health impacts attributable to air pollution.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

The new kinetic direct injectors utilize a new method of atomization and are designed to increase engine power for the performance aftermarket; deliver cleaner tail pipe emissions in existing commercial fleets; and increase fuel efficiency both for in-field vehicles and future OEM Engines. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Eight university teams will take part in the competition at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. The software has been sold by Elektrobit (EB) since January 2008. Audi presented each of the university teams, comprising a maximum of five students, with the basic software and two identical model cars on 6 October 2015.

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JULY 29, 2018

Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh The realm of potential transportation futures is still highly uncertain.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

A new Carnegie Mellon University study released at the Washington Auto Show finds that for passenger cars, aadvanced vehicles with higher fuel economy—i.e, A new Carnegie Mellon University study released at the Washington Auto Show finds that for passenger cars, aadvanced vehicles with higher fuel economy—i.e,

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MAY 8, 2010

Researchers at the Naoi Laboratory at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used an in situ sol-gel process induced by ultra-centrifugal mechanical agitation to add an active material inside carbon for use as electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries to improve performance. Resources. Ishimoto, and K.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Average monthly and model year fleet-wide achieved CAFE performance levels (light purple) versus NHTSA projected achieved CAFE levels (blue) for model years 2008 through 2016. Additionally, they found, achieved CAFE performance has consistently increased annually from model year 2008 through model year 2013. Schoettle and Sivak 2013.

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APRIL 22, 2016

This workshop will influence future funding opportunities at the Commission through its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, which provides up to $100 million a year for alternative fuels and vehicle technology development. Background.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Collaborating on the paper were scientists from Utrecht University, the Netherlands Royal Meteorological Institute, Delft University of Technology, Bristol University (UK) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA). —Professor Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, co-author. mm of global sea level rise per year.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

General Motors recently renewed its five-year agreement with research partner Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh to continue developing technologies that could allow future production vehicles to drive autonomously. The lab’s multiple projects are aligned with GM’s next-generation advanced crash-avoidance technologies.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Woskov began intensively studying whether the approach could be an affordable improvement on mechanical drilling. But actually running the reservoir and getting the energy out of the ground safely may be something very, very far off in the future.” Drilling a hole is challenging enough,” says Tester.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. He went on to earn a master's degree in computer science in 2008, also from Loyola. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE.

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MAY 14, 2018

The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. The paper is published in Nature Communications.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The program is part of Neste Oil’s efforts aimed at using algae oil as a raw material for producing NExBTL renewable diesel in the future. At SYKE’s Marine Research Centre, the use of planktonic algae as a source of bioenergy has been studied since 2008 during several national and international projects.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2013

The factor that supports a temporary peak only is the expected future increase in the total distance driven (due to the increasing population and the improving economy). The future interplay of these factors will determine whether or not the 2004 peak will be surpassed in the future. The rate for 2011 was 530 gallons.

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APRIL 3, 2021

The University of Stuttgart designed a wind-powered car. One example is the Ventmobile , built by University of Stuttgart students in 2008. We may see a lot more cars like the Nemesis and Mirai in the future before we start seeing vehicles capable of fully operating on nothing more than a stiff breeze.

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JULY 29, 2013

The findings from two recent studies by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute together suggest that the US now has—per person, per driver, and per household—fewer light-duty vehicles and that they are driven less than a decade ago.

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JUNE 2, 2010

The University of California, Davis announced the appointment of Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart of the university’s Graduate School of Management to the Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency. Established in 2006, the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is the first university center of excellence in energy efficiency. Chevron Corp.

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JULY 19, 2011

They allow for a virtual simulation of the entire vehicle, therefore substantially reducing the development time and engine tuning of future engine programs. Our close collaboration with both suppliers and local institutions such as the co-located Politecnico University, is a major asset for our center and well recognized within GM.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

You don’t have to identify the people,” says data scientist Jonathan Weber of the University of Haute-Alsace , in Mulhouse, France, and coauthor of a review of video crowd analysis. The more data you collect, the more danger there is in the future that that data can end up in the public or in the wrong hands,” Cirio says.

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MAY 25, 2010

Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.

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MAY 14, 2012

A team of researchers led by Dr. Yi Cui of Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has now shown that anodes consisting of an active silicon nanotube surrounded by an ion-permeable silicon oxide shell can cycle more than 6,000 times in half cells while retaining more than 85% of their initial capacity.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. —Miettinen et al. Miettinen, J., Hooijer, A.,

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate 314

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APRIL 9, 2010

Shortly after releasing the Roadmap, the Coalition commissioned the Interindustry Forecasting Project at the University of Maryland and Keybridge Research to study the long-term economic effects of their policy proposals. By 2030, the typical US household’s annual income would rise by $2,763 (2008 dollars). Annual Household Income.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

The digitization of the 5,000 articles—dating between 1909, when the publication launched, and 2008—took almost eight years to complete. He is a professor and a deputy vice chancellor for research and internationalization at the University of Johannesburg. Prior to 2005, the journal was published in print.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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JULY 1, 2011

The most recent (April 2011) value of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) Eco-Driving Index (EDI) stands at 0.86, indicating that in April 2011 there was a 14% reduction of emissions per driver of newly purchased vehicles in the US compared to the situation in October 2007. Source: UMTRI. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 22, 2010

The company is exploring ways to promote zero-emission transportation and the development of an electric-vehicle charging infrastructure through partnerships to be announced in the future. In 2008, Chrysler Group announced the company’s intention to bring a Ram Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) to market.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid. Weisenmiller.

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MAY 13, 2022

While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., Zellerbach also played a key role in placing the first Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures trade on behalf of a U.S. He joined as an undergrad at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Meeting the challenges of the near future may mean moving towards a new production and consumption model, new rural-urban dynamics, and a new gender and intergenerational balance, according to the European Foresight Expert Group. The group presented the finings of its report, The World in 2025 , at a conference in Brussels.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In July, Deutsche Accumotive began construction of a new plant, with initial planned capacity of up to 300,000 cells per year, all being targeted for Mercedes vehicles; in the future, the joint venture plans to sell batteries to third parties. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov. —Deb Niemeier.

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