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Westport Innovations acquires alt fuel systems company Prins Autogassystemen for €12.2M

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In October, a Prins technology paper presented at the 2013 Global Technology Conference (GTC) in London “Development of Dual Fuel technology: Prins Dieselblend-2.0 million tonnes in 2013—an increase of 9.4 system enabling heavy duty vehicles driving on LP Gas” was the overall winner of the 2014 WLPGA Innovation award.

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Honda Plans to Launch Hydrogen Vehicle Using FCEV Technology

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In addition to developing its fuel cell technology, since 2013, Honda has been collaborating with General Motors to develop fuel cell systems and hydrogen storage technology. The hydrogen cycle has three phases: create, store/transport, and consume. This hydrogen may be transferred by pipeline, land, and sea and stored as hydrogen.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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The development of better battery technology for storing electricity, is vital for increased use of renewables in both electricity and transportation, where electric vehicles can be plugged into the grid for charging. We conducted some back-of-the-envelope calculations of the potential warming associated with using all available fossil fuels.

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Volkswagen Group shows 3 hydrogen fuel cell concepts at LA Show: Audi A7 Sportback h-tron; Golf Sportwagen HyMotion; Passat HyMotion

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The tanks can store around five kilograms of hydrogen at a pressure of 700 bar—enough to drive more than 500 kilometers (310.7 The high-performance battery can store energy recovered from brake applications and supply powerful full-load boosting, enabling the impressive acceleration. lb) of hydrogen to cover 100 kilometers (62.1

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] approval in 2013. The VPU converts the images to simple patterns of 60 pixels and sends that information to a transmitter on the user’s glasses. skiing and shooting arrows.

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Liquid Air Energy Network forms in UK; focus on transportation and energy storage

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The UK Centre for Low Carbon Futures published a multi-partner research report— Liquid Air in the energy and transport systems: Opportunities for industry and innovation in the UK —and presented the results at a a conference at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. Heat hybrid. Compressed air vs. liquid air.

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Drayson Racing and Lola unveil battery-electric Le Mans prototype; application of structural composite batteries

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Drayson Racing Technologies and Lola Group unveiled the anticipated electric-powered Le Mans prototype racing car, the Lola-Drayson B12/69EV, at the 2012 Low Carbon Racing Conference at the NEC. of generating multifunctional materials and methods to convert. Earlier post.) The projects demonstrate the feasibility. and distributed mass.

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