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Lightning Hybrids secures order for 35 hydraulic hybrid systems from Kiessling Transit

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The company’s system demonstrated improvements of 30% in fuel efficiency and significantly reduced NO x emissions during a year-long pilot program with the leading Massachusetts-based transportation company. Hydraulic pumps and a lightweight accumulator store braking energy and use the stored energy to power the wheels.

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Northwestern team develops way to stabilize high capacity Li4Mn2O5 cathode; doping with vanadium or chromium

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The transition metal, typically cobalt, effectively stores and releases electrical energy when lithium ions move from the anode to the cathode and back. The French research team first reported the large-capacity lithium-manganese-oxide compound in 2016. —Yao et al. Zhenpeng Yao, Soo Kim, Jiangang He, Vinay I.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US. IKEA Joins Hands With Electrify America.

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Video Friday: TRI Expo

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RoMeLa ] The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell celebrates 10 years of breaking robots! We at CeTI want to push research even further to remain a leader in robotics for another 400 years.

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With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again

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In 2016 the two researchers were awarded a U.S. cellphone retail company with stores in 43 states, he had the resources to invest in long-shot research. Massachusetts Eye and Ear. patent for their olfactory-implant system. As the CEO of a. And when a colleague told him about the work at VCU, he got in touch and offered to help.

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Toyota FCV Mirai launches in LA; initial TFCS specs; $57,500 or $499 lease; leaning on Prius analogy

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Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). —Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President/CEO. High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks. The three layers are: Inner layer: plastic liner (prevents hydrogen leakage).

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