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Nvidia Is Piloting a Generative AI for Its Engineers

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Twelve billion of those tokens came from design documents, bug reports, and other English-language internal data accumulated over Nvidia’s 30 years work designing chips. Finally, the resulting model was submitted to “supervised fine-tuning,” training on 130,000 sample conversations and designs. That took two more steps.

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Renault partners with R-FIT to launch electric retrofit kits in France

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Having passed the various certification tests at UTAC (the French car, motorcycle, and bicycle technical union), this conversion offers a level of safety that meets market standards. kWh 5 kWp/48 kWp engine Two-year guarantee

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to make it easier for manufacturers to gain approval to sell fuel conversion systems. The proposed rule would cover conversions of light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty highway vehicles and engines, and would apply to all clean alternative fuels. Vehicle/Engine Age.

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Expanded and updated GREET 2021 released

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The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center announced the 2021 release of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. One pathway produces methanol from biomass gasification, which is blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock and designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty multi-mode (MM) engines.

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Advanced Propulsion Centre UK publishes automotive power electronics value chain

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APC says that this is the first document of its kind to demonstrate the complete value chain; identifying what’s needed to build a robust end-to-end UK supply chain. Electric vehicles use 30% more chips than ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles—meaning shortages will impact on 2030 manufacturing targets.

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PSA evaluating Aquarius Engines’ free-piston linear generator for range-extender

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PSA Groupe is evaluating a free-piston engine linear-generator under development by Israel-based start-up Aquarius Engines for use as a range-extender in its electric vehicles. As outlined in one of its patent documents, the company is proposing a new cycle process—the Aquarius cycle—as well as the new free-piston engine.

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ARAPL RaaS Appoints Jerry Kurian as independent software evaluator – ET Auto

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In this role, Jerry will directly report to the ARAPL RaaS Board, providing oversight and validation across critical areas including meeting timelines, product quality, regulatory compliance, safeguarding intellectual property and maintaining standards for technical documentation, the company said.

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