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Dahn is a pioneering researcher and developer of lithium-ion battery technology and leads a large research group at Dalhousie University. Dahn held the position of NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair with Dalhousie University from 2016 to 2021. Dahn has a long record of successful industry collaboration.

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Chinese university develops new material to increase solid-state battery production. In 2017 the Fisker Inc. Hitachi Zosen a major Japanese industrial and engineering corporation has developed a solid-state battery. The battery will soon be tested in industrial machinery and space.

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General Motors and its joint ventures sold more than 4 million vehicles in China for the first time in 2017. In 2017, GM added 18 new and refreshed models in China. Cadillac, which has had 22 months in a row of double-digit sales growth, posted a sales increase of 51% to 175,489 units in 2017. turbocharged engines.

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LiNa’s senior team has accumulated decades of materials engineering and design for manufacturing experience in the fuel cell industry. In January, LiNa energy announced a four-year industry-sponsored research program with Imperial College London. LiNa Energy was formed in the summer of 2017 as a spin-out of Lancaster University.

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Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. It was established to build a high-performance, low-volume, flexible battery capability in the UK.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Participating university teams will develop and demonstrate an autonomous vehicle (AV) that can navigate urban driving courses as described by SAE J3016 Standard Level 4 automation. Teams will be selected using a Request for Proposal (RFP) process which will be open to universities later in 2020. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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The company has also created three new industry-focused large models—one for the electric power industry, one for banking, and another one for aerospace —by fine-tuning the company’s ERNIE 3.0 Titan model with industry data and expert knowledge in unsupervised learning tasks.

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. She has worked there for more than four years. “It

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million in a Series A funding round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Eni Next, with participation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and AP Ventures. C-Zero Inc., a pioneer in natural gas decarbonization, recently raised $11.5 Background. cal/mol H 2 ) is slightly (. The catalyst plays a crucial role in this process. Resources.

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The winners are Professor Elizabeth Biddinger, City College of New York; Professor Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Professor Joshua Snyder, Drexel University. 2016-2017 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows: Professor Elizabeth Biddinger, City College of New York.

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At the BWM Group’s engine plant in Steyr (Austria), in a reference project accompanied by the Technical University of Vienna, Ecoclean Monschau (formerly Dürr Ecoclean) has significantly raised the energy efficiency of a. The first EcoCFlex unit for cleaning and deburring engine components went into service at the BMW Group in 2005.

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The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex. The approval launches the process for developing and refining specific programs.

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Simona Onori, an assistant professor at Clemson University, has received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to advance her work to develop integrated modeling and control for aftertreatment systems to reduce fine-particle emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines.

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The €15-million campus will allow the BMW Group to develop its position as technology leader in the utilization of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry. Our goal is to industrialize 3D printing methods more and more for automotive production, and to implement new automation concepts in the process chain.

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The UK government has launched a £75-million (US$120-million) fund to speed the development of low carbon technologies for engines. billion) investment from government and industry to fund the development of new technologies over the next 10 years. Autonomous driving Engines Fuel Efficiency' Earlier post.)

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University of British Columbia (UBC) engineers have used polymeric scrap tire fibers (STF) to develop a more resilient type of concrete that could be used for concrete structures such as buildings, roads, dams and bridges, while reducing landfill waste. A paper on the work is published in the journal Materials and Structures.

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The Responsible Battery Coalition, in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, launched a comprehensive research project to compare the total cost of ownership of gas and electric vehicles (EVs). Gregory Keoleian, Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

This is also considerable in context of how much energy and effort is put into the food industry. The duo selected food waste as a microbial feedstock after interviewing 80 customers across waste-to-hydrogen industries while participating in DOE’s Energy I-Corps, a program that helps accelerate commercialization efforts at DOE laboratories.

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VMT Technologies, a development and licensing company headquartered at the Novell Technology Center in Provo, Utah, has received purchase orders worth up to $480 million from two EV manufacturers—Vision Motor Cars and Leo Motors—for the VMT Universal Transmission for application in their vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Today, more than 3,200 designers and engineers, NEV and software specialists are creating leading-edge innovations in close collaboration with Chinese tech players, start-ups, local partners as well as academia. The usability research team consists of designers, software engineers, cognitive psychologists, and more.

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The results of their new method demonstrate its potential to produce valuable novel strains of yeast for industrial use, as well as to reveal a more sophisticated understanding of the yeast genome. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. —Study leader Huimin Zhao, the Steven L.

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Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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Bosch is leading a consortium in a German government-funded project to develop a direct injection system for monovalent natural gas engines—i.e., engines that run exclusively on CNG. Today’s CNG vehicles are generally bivalent, running on gasoline and CNG with engines designed for gasoline direct injection.

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Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department.

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LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. is a spin-out of Lancaster University, applying modern materials engineering to the sodium-nickel-chloride battery to create a game-changing storage technology.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy (nanotwinned Al-Fe) that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential applications in the automotive and aerospace industries. The microprojectile tests were performed by a research group at Rice University, led by professor Edwin L.

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The Faraday Institution is the UK’s independent national battery research institute, and was established as part of the government’s £246-million (US$341-million) investment in battery technology through the Industrial Strategy. Its formation was announced in October 2017 by the Business Secretary Greg Clark. Earlier post.).

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The University of Michigan is entering two separate agreements with Chinese institutions targeting automated and connected vehicles. million research agreement with the Chongqing Sokon Industry Group establishes the University of Michigan-Sokon Research Center in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering. Second, a $2.5-million

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JULY 30, 2017

A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Barron reported their find in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 7b01675.

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Our dendrite-suppressing technology has exciting implications for the battery industry. In 2017, when the conventional wisdom was that you need a hard electrolyte, we proposed that a new dendrite suppression mechanism is possible with a soft solid electrolyte. —co-author Venkat. Venturi, V.,

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This is an important step in the reduction of the airline’s carbon emissions towards the industry targets of carbon neutral growth from 2020 and a 50% reduction by 2050 from 2005 levels. University College of London students were crowned as the winners of its BA 2119: Future of Fuels challenge.

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Sanoh Industrial Co., The automotive industry, in its pursuit of vehicle electrification, is particularly interested in ASSB to boost vehicle range, while using an overall safer and simpler energy storage system as compared to current state of the art lithium-ion batteries. Solvay Ventures, and A123 Systems. Earlier post.).

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BASF SE plans to establish a new Group company, BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH, as of 1 September 2017. The company will work closely with researchers and application engineers from BASF and external partners, such as universities and potential customers, in order to develop the right solutions for a wide array of requirements.

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In December 2017, ARENA announced the funding round into hydrogen R&D. Funding recipients are: Australian National University (ANU) Hydrogen Generation by Electro-Catalytic Systems – $615,682. Macquarie University biological hydrogen production using genetically engineered microorganisms – $1,148,455.

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New research led by the University of Leicester in the UK has made a novel breakthrough in understanding how solidification cracking occurs during the welding of steel, an important engineering alloy. It is estimated that more than 50% of global domestic and engineering products contain welded joints. NMP3-SL-2009-229108.

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GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. CATL will invest €240 million by 2022 in the German plant, which will be located on a 70-hectare site in the industrial area Erfurt Cross. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry.

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