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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Scientists at the University of Bath and Tel Aviv University are developing a new catalyst to improve the properties of Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) plastics made from plants to make them stronger and more heat-resistant for broader use in applications such as engineering plastics for the automotive industry, microwavable trays and hot drinks cups.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

The 2014 Camry in Europe is benefitting from a new, Euro V-compliant, 4-cylinder, 1,998 cc, 16v, DOHC petrol engine mated to a 6-speed Multi-mode automatic transmission which replaces the existing 2.0-liter mpg US), fuel consumption is a substantial 13% less than that of the outgoing engine. turbo 8AR-FTS engine. l/100 km (32.7

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

In over a dozen published research articles, patents, and manufacturers' specifications, scientists and engineers have identified EP29LPSP for use in their applications due to its unparalleled performance in one or more areas. 00, WP1995, Revision 0, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 19 Mar. 2 Lee, David, et al.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Israel-based company Electreon is one such company piloting wireless roads, as detailed in a report from CNBC on Monday. CNBC says the road is now expected to be built within the next year or so in a partnership between Electreon, NextEnergy, Jacobs Engineering Group, and MDOT.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2013

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are showing that data culled from geosocial networks such as the GPS traffic app Waze can help prevent traffic incidents with better deployment of police resources at the most accident-prone areas. Police were reported at least 15 times at more than 3,500 locations.

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MARCH 2, 2014

liter 32-valve V8 engine that, for the first time in a Lexus performance engine, uses the Atkinson cycle at cruising speeds for enhanced fuel economy and then switches to the Otto cycle at higher rpm to develop impressive performance levels. The RC F features an all-new 5.0-liter In the 1982 paper, Luria et al. The Lexus 5.0-liter

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are developing a process to hydrogenate carbon dioxide to produce a renewable alternative for crude oil. Moti Herskowitz is the Israel Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering and the vice president and dean of research and development at BGU. — BGU’s Prof. Moti Herskowitz.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Hyundai also will pursue open innovation with world-class educational institutions such as the Nanyang Technological University by conducting joint projects as well as co-founding separate research centers. The lab also will test a service using multiple modes of transport, as well as on-demand shuttle and last-mile mobility via e-scooter.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Engineers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel are developing a mathematical model to lead to a software solution to improve urban bike sharing systems management. Tel Aviv University research is contributing to this plan, and the results will be used in a pilot site in Israel.

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JUNE 30, 2014

The University of Sunderland (UK), working with a consortium of five other research partners from Italy, Spain and Germany, has been selected for funding by the €1-billion (US$1.4-billion) Source: University of Sunderland. billion) Graphene Flagship research initiative in Europe ( earlier post ) for their iGCAuto proposal.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 11, 2023

DriveGPT has been opened to a limited number of partners, and the first batch includes Beijing Jiaotong University School of Computer and Information Technology, Qualcomm, Volcano Engine, Huawei Cloud, JD Technology, NavInfo, WEY Brand, and Intel. What is DriveGPT?

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JULY 17, 2023

In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured. Production was down, shipping routes were closed, and OPEC nations issued embargoes that ensured the United States would be punished for allying itself with Israel.

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JULY 25, 2011

As reported in Chemical & Engineering News , Philip G. A possible mechanism involves metal–ligand cooperation by aromatization–dearomatization of the heteroaromatic pincer core. —Balaraman et al.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Co-authors of the paper are Nikolaos Soultanidis, a Rice chemical engineering graduate student in Wong’s lab; Israel Wachs, Wu Zhou and Christopher Kiely of Lehigh University; Antonis Psarras and Eleni Iliopoulou of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas; and Alejandro Gonzalez of the DCG Partnership, Pearland, Texas.

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AUGUST 16, 2015

A team at the University of Georgia, Athens led by Distinguished Research Professor Michael Adams has discovered tungsten in what appears to be a novel enzyme in the biomass-degrading thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii. The investigators engineered C. Tungsten is exceptionally rare in biological systems. Scott, Gabe M.

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MAY 2, 2018

New research led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the Harvard T.H. Incompletely burned fossil fuels expelled from engines (especially diesel) and power plants produce black carbon—a known carcinogen and contributor to climate change. Litonuja, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Matthew W.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

The Environmentally Friendly Inter-City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells (ENFICA-FC) project, led by Turin Polytechnic University, is ready for flight-testing its fuel-cell powered, manned inter-city aircraft. University of Pisa (IT) (laboratory tests on the electric system). The Rapid 200-FC in an aircraft braking test. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Two of the most interesting innovators in this field are the Israel-based startup. James Giordano , chief of neuroethics studies at Georgetown University Medical Center. In an office in Herzliya, Israel, Sergey Vaisman sits in front of a computer. InnerEye , an Israel-based startup that recently came out of stealth mode.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

We have a strategic advantage because of our ability to combine the software and sensing technology with the sophisticated engineering necessary to manufacture high-quality vehicles. Today, it is home to more than 130 researchers, engineers and scientists, who are increasing Ford’s collaboration with the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

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APRIL 15, 2010

A life cycle assessment (LCA) of biodiesel produced from castor bean varieties being developed by Israel-based Evogene Ltd. earlier post ) found that such biodiesel reduces greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions by 90% compared to petroleum diesel in the US.

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JUNE 25, 2015

The US$30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low‑cost methods of robotic space exploration. The majority of the roughly 35 current engineers on the team come from Germany and Austria. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 24, 2011

Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. William Clarke/University of Virginia. To design a controller, you must have a way of testing it, for which biomedical engineering has typically relied on animal trials.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

A paper on the work, which was supported by the Energy Biosciences Institute—a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and funded by BP—is published in the journal Nature. —Anbarasan et al. Source: Anbarasan et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro) contracted Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc., In 2007, ECOtality acquired Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 18, 2022

but Kagan works out of the company’s office in Israel. At Mellanox, based in Yokneam Illit, Israel, Kagan had overseen the development of high-performance networking for computing and storage in cloud data centers. After he graduated high school in 1975, his family moved to Israel. Nvidia is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The NSF grant is part of US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) funding work. The US partner submits a grant on the joint project to the NSF, and the Israeli partner submits the same grant to the ISF (Israel Science Foundation). Iftach Yacoby of Tel Aviv University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Earlier this year, a C30 liquid-fueled microturbine was successfully integrated into a Ford S-Max people carrier in the United Kingdom by Langford Performance Engineering Ltd. The University of California at Irvine and Argonne will assist Capstone in the development and testing of the fuel delivery system for the microturbine.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Ziv, an electrical engineering professor at the Technion —the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa—and his colleague Abraham Lempel perfected the lossless compression technique, enabling perfect data reconstruction. He was selected in 1959 as one of a handful of researchers from Israel’s defense lab to study abroad.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Embryonics , a startup in Haifa, Israel, aims to raise the IVF success rate with its suite of AI algorithms. Gold-Zamir has a medical degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Silver is a machine learning engineer who previously worked for Apple and Intel. Bronstein is a computer science professor at the Technion.

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MAY 23, 2023

Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. The VDoS gang members had been only 14 years old when they started to offer DDoS services from Israel in 2012.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

International airfare departing from the United States is up 10 percent for 2024 compared with 2023, according to Kayak , a travel search engine. In 2024, we will see a new breed of intelligent travel agents built on top of chatbots,” said Oren Etzioni , professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Washington.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Climate Change Commission has recommended setting a time limit on light vehicles with internal combustion engines entering, being manufactured, or assembled in Aotearoa as early as 2030. Slovenia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland, India, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom all have 2030 deadlines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

s electric motor is coupled to a reducer which replaces the gearbox traditionally mated to heat engines. It consequently doesn’t encroach on either cabin space or boot capacity, making it possible to keep the same arrangement of four individual seats as that seen on the heat-engined Kangoo be bop. Kangoo be bop Z.E.’s

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APRIL 16, 2009

Current consortium members include Accenture, Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Ventyx. Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Smart meters and substations will be integral. SZ (1) 6753.T

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JUNE 29, 2009

s electric motor is coupled to a reducer which replaces the gearbox traditionally mated to internal combustion engines. This universal standard plug was shown in Hannover last April and will be employed to charge Renault’s forthcoming electric vehicles. The first will be a family saloon and will go on sale in Israel and in Europe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model.

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