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Rivian patents tailgate with gooseneck hinges

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In 2022, the corporate additionally filed a patent utility for telescoping and folding tailgates, in addition to an built-in tailgate step. Patent symbol of Rivian tailgate with gooseneck pictures As with any patent subject matter, there is not any word that any of those concepts will achieve manufacturing.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. Oldsmobile’s advanced concepts manager Vic Ide (retired 1999) said he wanted the system’s price to be cut to under $1,000 ($1,988 adj.) No touch screen troubles here! Let me know.

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. This approach will improve energy efficiency during manufacturing and in service, as BMGs enable lightweighting opportunities and advanced design concepts.

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The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

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Philip Wong , an IEEE Fellow, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and former vice president of corporate research at TSMC. In this industry, it usually takes about 20 years from [demonstrating a concept] to introduction into manufacturing,” says Samavedam. “It Has the transistor of 2047 already been invented?

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Topic Area 1: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries Algenesis Corporation, “Pre-Pilot Scale Production of Algae-based Jet Fuel and Polyurethane Monomers”, $4,987,974. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation plans to develop and test MIL-101(Cr)-based sorbents in the form of powders, in composite polymer/MOF fibers and on the surface of monoliths. DOE Funding: $799,981; Non-DOE Funding: $199,995; Total: $999,976. MIL-101(Cr)-Amine Sorbents Evaluation Under Realistic Direct Air Capture Conditions.

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