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QOTD: Are You Feeling Bad?

The Truth About Cars

Perhaps some S-Class owners, or Lexus LS owners, or.you get the idea. Perhaps it's both -- it's not mutually exclusive for the owner of an attention-getting car to both enjoy being noticed and still feel a little guilty about standing out and/or harming the environment (maybe the car is a gas-guzzler). This is an easy one.

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€12M Current Direct project seeks to support marine electrification with swappable containerized battery system

Green Car Congress

The overarching aim of the Current Direct project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative interchangeable waterborne transport battery system and Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) Platform in an operational environment at the Port of Rotterdam at TRL7 that facilitates fast charging of vessels, fleet optimization and novel business models.

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The Greening of Transportation

Cars That Think

In this month’s special report on the greening of transportation, we examine a moonshot idea for powering electric vehicles, the biggest change in aviation since the jet engine, and cargo ships with a battle-tested mode of generation. Patel describes several efforts around the world to adapt SMRs to the marine environment.

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New system uses thermal camera and CO sensor to improve vehicle safety

Green Car Congress

When connected to a car’s telemetry system that collects data about the car and the environment, the system module’s thermal camera can detect the presence of children in the vehicle. The core of this new class of vehicle safety systems is the SoM designed by eInfochips based on the i.MX 6 series applications processor.

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CA’s solar tax supporters are trying to run a “wealthy vs disadvantaged” narrative: It doesn’t have to be

Teslarati

Tesla launches efforts to stop CA’s solar tax, which Musk dubs as “anti-environment” As critics of the initiative, such as Tesla and other renewable companies and organizations in the state, launched efforts to combat the NEM 3.0 proposal, organizations supporting the CPUC’s proposal have adopted a pretty similar stance.

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Attendance at IEEE’s STEM Summer Camp Breaks Records

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Held on university campuses across the United States, the experience also helps them stand out in an increasingly competitive college-acceptance environment. The coordinators were very kind and went the extra mile to achieve a healthy and quality environment for her.”

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BMW Group partners with Dassault Systemes for shared innovations in future engineering – ET Auto

Baua Electric

For the BMW Group the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will support this approach and help to reach a higher level of quality in our processes,” Julien Hohenstein, Vice President Processes, Digitalization, Governance Idea to Offer at the BMW Group research and development, said.

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