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Responsible Battery Coalition and U Michigan launch study to compare electric and gas vehicle lifetime costs

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The UM/RBC research project seeks to fill this information gap for consumers, and will also take into account regional factors that have not been thoroughly investigated before, including: Impact of local climate on vehicle fuel economy. Refueling patterns based on driver time valuation. Projections of future gasoline and electricity prices.

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11 more multinationals join Hydrogen Council

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Launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2017, the Hydrogen Council ( earlier post ) is a global CEO initiative to foster the role of hydrogen technologies in the global energy transition. We are delighted to welcome such impressive growth and the strong CEO-level commitment to hydrogen this demonstrates.

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Auto Alliance urges EPA to withdraw premature Final Determination on light-duty GHG regulations, resume Midterm Evaluation process with NHTSA

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The Auto Alliance has sent a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting that the US Environmental Protection Agency withdraw the Final Determination on the Appropriateness of the Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards under the Midterm Evaluation which EPA announced on 13 January 2017. Background.

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Oita team develops new process for producing hydrogen from ammonia without external heat source

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We expect this to contribute to the development of efficient, carbon-free energy production and thus to global solutions for energy and climate crises. 4, e1602747 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602747. 1602747.

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Consumer Reports: Tesla and other domestic brands take big steps backwards in reliability rankings

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Every domestic automaker landed in the bottom-half of CR’s latest reliability rankings, which covers 29 brands this year—two more than 2017. Making air suspension and AWD standard in the 2017 model has added more complexity and more things that could potentially falter. —Jake Fisher.

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Honda launches new “Green Path” initiatives for manufacturing and operations; new $210M paint line at Marysville with new 4C2B process

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Honda has announced several initiatives under its new “Green Path” approach to reducing the total life-cycle environmental impact of its products and operations in North America. MAP produces the Honda Accord Sedan and Coupe along with the Acura TLX and ILX for customers in more than 100 countries. Source: Honda North America.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. Another berated the theory’s scientific laxity. “No Army Persian Gulf Command. Kalman in 1972.