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Norwegian shipping industry pursuing battery-powered ships

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Some 120 managers representing the entire maritime cluster gathered at a DNV seminar last week. Electricity stored in batteries on board ships is another opportunity in the future energy mix and another technology race has started. Norled intends to use this experience in building and operating their fully electric ferry.

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Video Friday: ReachBot

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Experiments with rock grasping and coordinated locomotion illustrate the advantages of low inertia passive grippers, triggered by impact and using stored mechanical energy for the internal force. Waymo ] This week’s CMU RI Seminar is from Russ Tedrake, on “Motion Planning Around Obstacles with Graphs of Convex Sets.” [ CMU ]

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EnerDel to Supply Batteries for Japanese Electric Bus Demo

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It is the third such announcement from the “Green Crossover Town,” an EnerDel-ITOCHU collaboration, previewed at EnerDel’s technical seminar last week in Indiana. The project was initiated last April by Hokuriku Electric Power Company, which is headquartered in Toyama, in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Ride-sharer Grab to invest $700M in “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan

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The R&D centre will focus on developing innovations specific to Indonesia by building on the success of Grab’s existing localized solutions, including algorithms to address new road regulations in Jakarta and GrabHitch (Nebeng), a “bike-pooling” service that caters to nearly 1.4 million commuters in greater Jakarta.

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Ongoing market rollout for SAE hydrogen fueling standards

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H 2 Mobility ( earlier post ) is supporting the development of hydrogen infrastructure throughout Europe and the Fuel Cell Commercialization Project (FCCJ) ( earlier post ) and HySUT are actively supporting the build out of hydrogen infrastructure and the introduction of FCEVs into the market in Japan. Earlier post.)

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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These include straightening curves, adding signals, building passing lanes and double tracks, constructing and expanding terminals, and running more efficient trains. The same building block technology is used in the manufacture of smaller cubes, 100 kW all the way down to 10kW. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar, UIUC).

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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awarded him its prestigious Ho-Am Prize in 1993 for “building a solid foundation for Korea’s semiconductor industry.” The elder Kim had helped build the company’s first spinning factory, and his engineering savvy and consequent renown impressed his son. “He Chang Hae-Ja. Kyungbang , Korea’s iconic manufacturer of yarns and fabrics.