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As vehicle connectivity and advanced assistance systems become a ubiquitous part of driving, researchers at Volkswagen Group’s Electronics Research Laboratory ( ERL ) are working to create a “perfect driving experience” by enabling more intuitive forms of communications between the driver, the car and the external environment.

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Described in a paper in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , the modeling approach has low data requirements and is computationally efficient. Funding for this research came from the US Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers Program and Cornell Atkinson.

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MAY 16, 2022

Using new analytical methods, the research group “CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies” led by Michael Bau, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University in Bremen has studied the distribution of germanium and gallium in iron-manganese crusts from the deep sea. Source: Jacobs University).

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)

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JULY 11, 2021

An international group of experts led by WMG, University of Warwick working together as a part of an ISO technical committee, has published the first international (ISO) safety standard for Level 4 automated driving systems, taking them a step further towards being more widely available.

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APRIL 20, 2023

universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. Some teams are working on their projects as part of an engineering curriculum or a senior design project. and its environs. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

The BMW Group is increasingly relying on innovations from the fields of digitalization and Industry 4.0 Innovations coming out of many pilot projects are being implemented worldwide in logistics at BMW Group plants. —Jürgen Maidl, head of Logistics for the BMW Group production network. in production logistics.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Cathode flap In total, the Group has already won six series customers for cathode flaps, increasing the 2023 booked business in this product area to around €50 million. These are series production parts; spare parts will be supplied later as needed. The cathode flaps can be utilized universally.

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MARCH 13, 2019

In a coordinated effort to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for the transportation of goods while also reducing its impact on society, Volvo Group collaborated closely with several key California stakeholders to demonstrate Eco-Drive technology as part of its involvement in the Zero Emission Drayage Truck Demonstration Project.

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JUNE 18, 2022

The investment came as part of a £15-million (US$18.4-million) This forward-leaning investment aims to facilitate the scaling-up of second-life battery energy storage systems and further secure circular business opportunities for the forthcoming ramp-up in Volvo Group’s second-life battery returns. million) round.

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APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Blackstone, together with a German industry and research consortium, will take the validated laboratory results of the 3D-printed solid-state batteries to the stage of demonstration in a real environment within the next three years. The chemical system of sodium-ion batteries is comparable in parts with lithium-ion cells.

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JULY 2, 2020

Project ASLAN is a new international not-for-profit collaboration between commercial enterprise, leading technology universities, transport authorities and self-driving hardware and software engineers. Vu, Professor, Intelligent Transport Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

The network equipment for the 5G pilot network is supplied by the Finnish telecommunications group Nokia. —Beate Hofer, CIO of the Volkswagen Group. In the long term, the campus network at the Wolfsburg site is expected to cover large parts of the 6.5 square-kilometer plant site. This calculates the route to an ID.3

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MARCH 21, 2013

An intelligent material mix and lightweight construction have been an integral part of Mercedes-Benz vehicle construction for decades. —Professor Herbert Kohler, Vice President Group Research and Sustainability; Chief Environmental Officer Daimler AG. We are addressing this together within the framework of our cooperation.

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JULY 7, 2015

The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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JULY 23, 2023

The BMW Group further expanded its R&D footprint in China with the opening of a new R&D Center in Shanghai. China is already home to BMW Group’s largest R&D system outside of Germany, with locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Nanjing. Human-machine interaction is a vital part of the user experience.

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MAY 13, 2012

million to establish a multidisciplinary program of transportation research, education, and technology transfer for a Tier 1 University Transportation Center to be headquartered at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The 22 centers selected are all consortia, involving a total of 121 different universities.

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MARCH 6, 2022

Small particles from tires inhibit the growth and cause adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, according to two new Oregon State University studies. about 30% of its tread erodes and enters the environment. They also cite a recent study that estimated more than 1.5

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MAY 21, 2018

Groupe PSA and Ecole Centrale de Nantes have launched of an R&D partnership to optimize powertrain design processes for the group’s future vehicles. Groupe PSA is already pioneering the digital design approach. In a way, we’re developing a digital test bench capable of replacing a physical bench, at least in part.

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The collaboration is further supported by a strong research consortium including Safran Tech (the Research & Technology Center of Safran Group), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Fraunhofer Institute, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Strasbourg, and the IMDEA Energy Institute.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). Earlier post.). The agency later pledged to electrify at least 40% of its new delivery fleet. Craig, and Gregory A.

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JUNE 7, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1 Brown University.

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MARCH 17, 2023

The technology has already been proven at the laboratory scale under a research program in partnership with the University of Plymouth and results in a 35% cost-saving and 38% reduction in emissions compared to the mining of virgin material.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids. The biocrude is more viscous but less dense than FPBO.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated an effective way to capture 99% of carbon dioxide from the ambient air feed to an hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) air using a novel electrochemical system powered by hydrogen. Source: University of Delaware.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Similarly, air pollution has been linked with cerebrovascular disease, cancer and cardiovascular morbidity and overall mortality, attributed in part to an increased systemic inflammatory response to fine particles. Martha Billings, lead study author and associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington. exposure; and.

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Academic partners include Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Stuttgart, the Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKSF), and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, an innovation partner of KIT. —Baden-Württemberg Science Minister Theresia Bauer.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Chiyoda Corporation, which is headquartered in Japan, will serve as NTU’s key partner in the project, and will offer technical contribution based on their proprietary dehydrogenation catalyst technology, SPERA Hydrogen ( earlier post ), to the University to be developed and implemented on a national scale.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The key parts of the company’s strategy include introducing a next-generation modular architecture for EVs, strengthening EV production capacity, battery development capabilities and future businesses. In the existing system, auto parts can only be shared among vehicles that share the same platform.

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Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says. Sharma earned a Ph.D.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Volvo Car Group has completed a research project using magnets in the roadway to help the car determine its position. Volvo Car Group has completed a research project using magnets embedded in the roadway to help the car determine its position. —Jonas Ekmark, Preventive Safety Leader at Volvo Car Group. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 25, 2019

Now, a team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Oxford has discovered how hydrogen-producing enzymes (hydrogenases) are activated during their biosynthesis. They showed how the cofactor—part of the active center and also the heart of the enzyme—is introduced inside. —Professor Thomas Happe.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU) and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have devised an artificial enzyme that digests lignin, which has stubbornly resisted previous attempts to develop it into an economically useful energy source. —Chun-Long Chen.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Taking advantage of its advanced materials and processing technologies, the Teijin Group intends to further strengthen its ability to deliver innovative technological solutions in fields such as weight reduction and battery efficiency. Twaron stress/strain curves. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The University of Michigan is entering two separate agreements with Chinese institutions targeting automated and connected vehicles. The facility will simulate the country’s unique transportation environment. The Chongqing Sokon Industry Group is a public company that makes and distributes auto parts. Second, a $2.5-million

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