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1.0-liter EcoBoost powering 1 in 5 new Fords sold in 1H 2014 in Europe

Green Car Congress

liter EcoBoost also has been awarded the International Paul Pietsch Award 2013 for technological innovation in Germany; the Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club in Great Britain; and in the US, the Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics magazine. liter models, as have 32% of customers in Switzerland.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

Cars That Think

About Aart de Geus Employer: Synopsys Title: CEO Member grade: Fellow Alma mater: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Synopsys is now the largest supplier of software that engineers use to design chips, employing about 20,000 people. How do you make the connectivity between those chips as fast as possible?

Design 101
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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. If you totally decarbonize in Switzerland or in Canada (37 million people) and China keeps blowing ahead, it makes no difference. Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? Basically, I'm a bundle of questions.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. If you totally decarbonize in Switzerland or in Canada (37 million people) and China keeps blowing ahead, it makes no difference. Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? Basically, I'm a bundle of questions.

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Range record: ID.3 makes the journey from Zwickau to Switzerland on a single charge

Drive EV

3 has set its first range record: The electric car covered the 531km, equal to 330 miles from Zwickau to Schaffhausen (Switzerland) on a single charge. The route to Switzerland consisted entirely of public roads and highways, passing cities such as Bayreuth and Ulm. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars.