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Fontaine Modification offers refrigerated trailer electrification through new strategic alliance with eNow

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Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) magazine named eNow’s eTRU system for reefer trailers one of the Top 20 Products of the year in 2020. The company’s expert technicians will install the systems at its facilities in Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina; Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Dublin, Virginia; and Mineral Wells, West Virginia.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

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A recent collaboration between the MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) showed that phenomena associated with deflection-induced pavement-vehicle interaction (PVI) accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways.

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Report: VW suspends head of powertrain electronics over emissions scandal

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According to the report, Winterkorn first learned about the cheat only several days before the US EPA and California ARB made public their charges. German business magazine Manager Magazin yesterday reported that VW Group is putting the cost of the emissions scandal at more than €30 billion. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

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Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. In raw numbers of electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineers, Michigan ranks second only to California. Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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Proof-of-concept demonstrations have been deployed in Michigan and California, but there are to date no widespread deployments. The theory behind the algorithm and some experimental results will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.

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