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BMW Group hits 100K electrified vehicle mark for this year, lights up Group HQ like a battery

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The BMW Group has delivered more than 100,000 electrified vehicles to customers worldwide in 2017, as promised at the beginning of the year. This 99-meter-high signal is lighting the way into the era of electro-mobility. In the case of the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer, 13% of the models sold in 2017 were plug-in hybrids.

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Symbio intros 40 kW hydrogen fuel cell range-extending module for heavy-duty electric vehicles

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Symbio currently has several hundred converted Renault Kangoo ZE Maxi light electric commercial vehicles equipped with a 22 kWh battery pack and 5 kW hydrogen fuel range extender with 2.08 The kit is packaged with its power electronics unit for the conversion of fuel cell power for the battery. The kit utilizes the vehicle’s CAN bus.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. Because hemoglobin in the red blood cells absorbs visible light, Richards-Kortum’s team developed a fiber-optic probe that can produce images of the underlying network of new vessels.

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Six start-ups move into Volkswagen Gläserne Manufaktur from fourth competition

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The winners will develop diagnosis solutions for batteries, new vehicle navigation systems, innovative image processing, smart-home solutions for cars, and retrofit kits for autonomous driving. The Incubator has been around since August 2017. NAVENTIK is active in satellite navigation for highly automated and autonomous driving.

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Green Authority’s Best of CES 2023 awards: The best electric vehicles and energy solutions from the show

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Who knows if they will ever see the light of day? EcoFlow has been developing eco-friendly generators since 2017. At CES 2023, the company unveiled a whole-home backup power solution to ensure your lights never go out. Built around EcoFlow’s Delta Pro portable power station, the kit boasts an output of up to 7200W and 21.6kWh.

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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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During the first part of the project in summer 2017, the researchers on board HALO already examined the environment over European cities and conurbations such as London, Rome, Paris, Marseilles, Barcelona and the Ruhr region, as well as the Po Valley. We are conducting low-level visual flights and can only fly in cloudless areas.

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Five-year Update: Your Author's 2015 Lexus GS 350

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As far as other maintenance concerns, the tires still have good tread but technically are past their use by date (4017, manufactured October 2, 2017). I’ve done some touch up with a two-step painting kit, but it’s impossible to match the pearl coat correctly. Time flies, doesn’t it? & Nothing has broken whatsoever.

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