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Ford Crew Chief telematics system can improve fuel economy by up to 20% through better fleet management

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Crew Chief was developed by Ford Motor Company in response to commercial customer demand for a system that would allow fleet managers to monitor the location of the trucks in their fleets. —Bill Frykman, Ford Work Solutions product and business development manager. It also is being tested on Escape and Fusion.

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Ford Conducts Design of Experiment Investigating Thermoelectric Energy Regeneration

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engine with an Atkinson-cycle engine, as used in Ford’s Escape hybrid SUV. A literature review of the subject was conducted, which included a recent study that estimated a 21% loss of a typical IC engine’s fuel energy as exhaust heat at ¼ load and 1500 rpm, rising to 44% at 100% load and 4500 rpm, with a drive cycle average of about 33%.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. Before we talk about how we might create such a zero-power monitoring system, let's review the basic components of a distributed sensor network. These particular networks use. We're not quite there yet, but we are getting closer.

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Sandia-led team designs feasible hydrogen fuel-cell coastal research vessel; implications for large hydrogen-fueled vessels

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per year, produced entirely by the production and delivery of the LH 2 fuel. In our discussions with the gas suppliers Linde and Air Products, renewable LH 2 can be made available to the Zero-V today in the quantities required. More buoyant than helium, hydrogen rises on its own and eventually escapes into outer space.

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

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GM has slashed product-development programs, advertising and spending on auto-show events. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Goldman Pushes Stock Issue in Plan to Escape U.S. NewsVine StumbleUpon Mixx Text Size By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Corp. is teaming with Segway Inc.,

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines.

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New EV electric car calendar

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ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Aiways U6 – ambitious EV start-up has big plans and right-hand drive production is already confirmed, opening the door to a local arrival. Ford Escape PHEV – plug-in hybrid of all-new Escape.