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GM begins manufacturing Spark EV electric motor in Baltimore

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General Motors has begun manufacturing the electric motor for the Spark EV at its Baltimore Operations plant in White Marsh, Md. —Larry Nitz, GM executive director of Vehicle Electrification Engineering. Earlier post.). The heart of the Spark EV’s propulsion system is the GM-designed, oil-cooled, permanent magnet motor.

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Michelin to ship tires on sail-powered cargo ships

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The transport commitment signed by Michelin concerns the transport of tires loaded in containers from Halifax (Canada) to Saint-Nazaire - Montoir de Bretagne (France) on the pilot line opened by NEOLINE, which will also serve the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, as well as Baltimore.

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GM Investing $246M in Baltimore Transmission Plant for Electric Motors and Hybrid Components

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General Motors will invest approximately $246 million in the Baltimore Transmission plant to construct a high volume electric drive manufacturing facility that will in 2013 produce US designed and manufactured global rear-drive electric motors, a core technology for hybrids and electric vehicles. Electric motors are the engines of the future.

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Video-Game Engineer Sushama Chakraverty Answered the Call of Duty

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Landing a job in the video-game industry is a dream for many young engineers, but for Sushama Chakraverty , it was a happy accident. Sushama Chakraverty Employer: Sledgehammer Games, Toronto Title: Senior User Interface Engineering Manager Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, D.Y.

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Baltimore welcomes electric car sharing scheme

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Urban residents in Baltimore, Maryland, have a chance to go green at the city’s Inner Harbour, as manufacturer Electrovaya launched the country’s first electric car sharing programme. It is also designed to shut down the flow of electricity if the engine is overheating.

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Rivian Amazon delivery vans delivered more than 430k packages during pilot program

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In July 2022, Amazon announced that Rivian EDVs would be deployed in locations across the United States, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. The EV automaker also highlighted how closely Rivian engineers worked with Amazon employees to optimize EDV features.

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UMD IBBR awarded DOE grant to investigate how to protect biofuel crop poplar trees from disease

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The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop. Eisenstein.

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