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Aura received approximately $420,000 order for all-electric transport refrigeration

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Aura Systems, Inc. The customer selected Aura’s all-electric transport refrigeration after numerous tests and evaluation including comparison on actual routes with traditional diesel based solutions. Earlier post.) The systems are scheduled to be delivered and installed for the customer over the next two months.

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Wärtsilä supplying liquid bio-fuel powered main engines for new Finnish cargo vessel

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Comparison of different fuels. The Aura II , scheduled to be delivered in spring 2012, will be a multi-purpose dry cargo ship that can also be used for oil recovery operations in the Baltic Sea. Click to enlarge. The 6L20 genset has rated engine power of 1,100 kW (60 Hz) and generator power of 1,055 kW (60 Hz).

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Reported US Sales of Hybrids Up 21% in November; New Vehicle Market Share of 2.7%

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All comparisons here are by volume, not by adjusted selling rate. The Saturn Aura sold 29 units, down 17%, for 2.0% These figures do not include sales of the new Mercedes S400 hybrid (Mercedes-Benz does not break out its sales by powertrain type; all S-Class models—400 hybrid, 550, 600, 63 AMG—sold 1,114 units in November).

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Volvo Car outlines technological future: new Scalable Platform Architecture and focus on four-cylinder engines; Concept You

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The comparison between a donkey and a thoroughbred racehorse is an excellent example: each has a head, a body and four legs. For us the new architecture means we can sharpen our design language still further, carving out just the right athletic and dynamic aura that is so important to the most demanding prestige car buyers.

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India’s electric four-wheeler ride-hailing fleet incentives

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For the selected cities such as Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore for the models such as Mahindra eVerito D2 (BEV), Tata Nexon (BEV), Maruti Suzuki Dzire LXI (gasoline), Hyundai Aura S (diesel), Maruti Suzuki Tour S (CNG). Step two-Comparison of costs per km 2020 versus 2019. Based on policies in place in 2020 Vs 2019.

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GM Previews First Two-Mode, Front-Wheel-Drive Hybrid Transaxle

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Nitz also noted that the coming next-generation of the mild GM Hybrid System ( earlier post ), which in its current form is applied in the Malibu, VUE and Aura, will offer equivalent power to Honda’s IMA system in the new Insight. While a second planetary gearset is sometimes used, it is typically fixed or two-speed.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y., and Toronto, Ont.,

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