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Aura Electric Roadster Envisions The Driver's Car Of The Future

InsideEVs

Built by four UK companies with funding from the British government, the street-legal Aura prototype is an enticing 400-mile range EV.

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British-built Aura concept has 400 mile range

Discover EV

Aura concept is open-top sports car EV of the future boasting 400 mile range

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400-mile electric British roadster: UK funds enable a glimpse of the future

Green Car Reports

At an event last week focusing on low-carbon and fuel-cell innovation, a consortium of four suppliers together revealed the Aura, a fully electric sports car that combines a series of ideas that may point to the future in which automakers put a higher priority on weight reduction in EVs.

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NASA adds 14 new partners to Advanced Air Mobility project’s National Campaign; urban air mobility

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The partners will participate in the first full phase of testing of the National Campaign (NC-1) by flying their innovative vehicles, developing future airspace system capabilities, or providing key infrastructure related capabilities. Infrastructure partners for demonstrations: AURA Network Systems, Raytheon Company, Robust Analytics Inc.,

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Taking the Long Way Home From Alaska

Baua Electric

The original 1,685-mile road took more than 10,000 soldiers less than nine months to complete. An upgraded version opened in 1948 and has been continually resurfaced and rerouted; It now measures just shy of 1,400 miles from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction in Alaska, according to “ The Milepost ,” a guidebook to the drive.

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GM Will Apply Plug-in Hybrid Technology To One of Its Remaining Four Core Brands, Delivery Still in 2011

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Saturn currently sells two hybrid vehicles (VUE and Aura with GM Hybrid System) and was scheduled to begin initially offering a two-mode hybrid Vue ( earlier post ), with a Vue plug-in two-mode hybrid version ( earlier post ) due in 2011 for use in a cooperative demonstration test fleet with the US Dept. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NASA-led study identifies unprecedented depletion of stratospheric ozone layer above Arctic

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The stratospheric ozone layer, extending from about 10 to 20 miles (15 to 35 kilometers) above the surface, protects life on Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. The difference from previous winters is that temperatures were low enough to produce ozone-destroying forms of chlorine for a much longer time. Manney, Michelle L.

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