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China’s GAC Debuts Ammonia-Powered Car Engine

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MAN Energy Solutions has been working on a two-stroke motor it expects to be commercially available for maritime applications by 2024. Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT graduates, even revealed an ammonia-electric semi truck at the start of 2023 and had previously modified a John Deere tractor to run on the fuel. and Tesla Inc.,

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. in 1952 in solid-state physics, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory , in Lexington, Mass., His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At He helped develop three of the five most commonly used types of lithium-ion chemistries.

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USABC awards Cobasys $8.4M for the development of high-energy density Li-ion cells and packs for EVs

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SB LiMotive was established in September 2008 as a joint venture between Bosch and Samsung SDI. The focus of the project is to produce high-energy density cells and packs for electric vehicle applications to increase the current state-of-the-art battery-pack density by 50% in a three-year period. Cobasys, with two sites in Orion, Mich.,

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. It has to be for General Motors, Ford, and so on. That's where its core strength is.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. 10/31/07 [General Motors Corp.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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" In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. General Motors has sought $10.3 One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 "The Volt is a case study.

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