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DOE to issue funding opportunity for medium/heavy-duty, on-road natural gas engine research and development

Green Car Congress

VTO is seeking to address barriers to adoption of natural gas vehicles through early-stage research on medium- and heavy-duty on-road engine technologies. The goal is to enable natural gas engines that can cost-effectively achieve diesel-like efficiency while meeting current and future emissions standards.

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DOE to award up to $4M for medium/heavy-duty, on-road natural gas engine research

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $4 million for research projects on medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engine technologies. ( The objective of the new FOA is to address barriers to adoption of natural gas vehicles through early-stage research on medium- and heavy-duty on-road engine technologies. DE-FOA-0001813 ).

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EV conversion business profile: British Off Road, QLD

EV Central

Its expansive yard and sheds heave with body shells and parts dating back to the 1950s, but in one of the workshops there are significantly more modern happenings. This Australian Defence Force ute has been stripped of its Isuzu diesel engine and gifted a NetGain electric motor and Tesla batteries.

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ARPA-E holding workshop on increasing efficiency of light collection and bioconversion to liquid fuels

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E will hold a workshop on “Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels: Meeting Today’s Energy Needs by Maximizing Photon Capture” on 2 December 2010, in Arlington, Va. How can organisms be engineered to better use the available solar resource for significantly enhanced production of biofuels?

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Škoda starts series production of MEB-based all-electric Enyaq

Green Car Congress

This means our new SUV also places entirely different demands on manufacturing processes and production sequences than models with combustion engines. This is also reflected in the extensive preparation and conversion measures that we have been implementing at our main plant in Mladá Boleslav since last summer.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

Cars That Think

All six contributed to AI, computer science, or related fields in the decades following the Dartmouth workshop. Over the years, some people suggested that this was Trenchard More , another AI expert who attended the workshop. How neurons might inhibit this effect were among his ideas that led to new insights at the workshop.

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Racing the Tesla Cybertruck to Market — Converting a Mitsubishi Pajero

CleanTechnica EVs

Francisco is an accomplished engineer, so when he realised that there was no vehicle in the Australian market that could do what he wanted, he decided to build one. In his Aladdin’s cave of engineering treasure in his Brisbane workshop, he has a multitude of vehicles […]. He is now racing the Tesla Cybertruck to market.

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