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Babcock to support British Army with electric vehicle conversion and trials

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International defense company Babcock International has been awarded a one-year contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to help the British Army understand the applications and constraints of electric propulsion. I’m excited to see how the converted Land Rovers perform in a test environment against diesel and hybrid equivalents.

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MAN Diesel & Turbo to convert 3 more coastal container ships to LNG

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The vessel now meets both the Tier II and Tier III emission requirements set by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). million) for 10 such LNG-retrofits at the international Our Ocean 2017 conference in Malta recently. Both the North Star and Midnight Sun operate fast routes between Anchorage, Alaska and Tacoma, Washington.

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

Cars That Think

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. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. and Toronto, Ont.,

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Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 820A SoC infotainment and connectivity processors for automotive; expanding automotive investment

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Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited is now called Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. A Zeroth-powered development kit for automotive solutions will be available for the Snapdragon 820A. Zeroth accelerates execution of deep neural networks using the heterogeneous compute engines that are part of the Snapdragon 820A.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” in Rochester, NY. San Jose, Calif.,

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OLA S1 Electric Scooter Ownership Blog

Plug In India

My ramblings on the 2022 EV scene I have an electric cycle, which is an eAdicct conversion kit added to a Schnell 26 inch cycle. Does your OEM make ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicles and launches EV's only as a compliance vehicle or a PR stunt? Nor am I, a corporate slave earning huge money, climbing the corporate ladder.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Costar Corporation by Hymotion, October 2006 (Annapolis, MD), contact kliestenfeltz@costar.com Chelan County (WA) Advanced Vehicle Initiative s "Whitebird," by Manzanita Micro, October, 2006. Progress Energy Corporation by Advanced Vehicle Research Center , with Hymotion kit, July 2007 (Raleigh, NC), contact Mike.Ligett@.

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