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APRIL 8, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. Earlier post.) —Under Secretary of Energy Mark W.

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JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Ireland-based electrolyzer company Fusion Fuel Green PLC will collaborate with Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L. CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Fission waste by-products need to be disposed of safely, and they remain radioactive for thousands of years. Among those interested parties is NASA. percent efficiency.

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MAY 8, 2023

Aheadd CP1 brings multiple advantages including high strength and ductility, excellent thermal/electrical conductivity, high productivity Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) processing, and simplified post-processing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z pulsed-power accelerator have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The method could be useful as a future energy source if the individual fusion pulses can be sequenced like the firing of an automobile’s cylinders.

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

The engine-gearbox unit produced using the additive laser fusion process passed all the quality and stress tests without any problems. The additively manufactured alloy housing is more lightweight than a conventionally cast part, and reduces the overall weight of the drive by approximately 10%. —Falk Heilfort.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian Detection, part of the overall technology, employs the same sensors and camera to watch the road ahead for potential collisions with a vehicle or pedestrian. Stop-and-go will be added to three new Ford products within the next two years. The new Fusion arrives at Ford dealers this spring.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it. Jan Marwan, symposium organizer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

With the new BASF polymer, however, Ford is able to skip that painting step, thereby reducing cost and environmental impacts during production of the 2013 Ford Fusion. If clear-coat paint had been used on these particular parts with the new Fusion, it would have required Ford’s supplier to ship parts from Kalamazoo, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2020

Digital manufacturing innovator VELO 3D announced the commercial release of a manufacturing process for additively manufactured parts in Aluminum F357 on the company’s Sapphire metal 3D-printing system. Aluminum F357 is a beryllium-free aluminum-silicon alloy, similar to A357. It has excellent weldability and corrosion resistance.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

6K Additive, a division of 6K, a leader in the sustainable production of engineered materials for additive manufacturing and lithium-ion batteries, and Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT are collaborating to create a complete life cycle assessment (LCA) for additive manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

The common goal was to revolutionize metal 3D printing in standard automotive production. Around 50,000 components per year can be manufactured cost-effectively in common part production, as well as more than 10,000 individual and new parts, by means of 3D printing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2017

Konrad Technologies GmbH, a specialist on sensor fusion for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and SET GmbH, a specialist on Hardware in the Loop (HiL) testing, are joining their knowledge and skills to develop custom testing systems in the area of driver assistance systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

Ambarella’s CV2x-based reference design platform performs the vision processing and fusion of Seeing Machines’ driver monitoring software with forward-facing ADAS features to provide a complete, integrated DMS and ADAS solution. Ambarella’s SoCs target both standalone and integrated DMS, OMS and forward-facing ADAS cameras.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2020

Porsche already uses 3D printing technology in prototype construction, manufacturing spare parts for classic sports cars and in other areas. As a result, the pistons from the advance development project weigh 10% less than the forged series production pistons.

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MARCH 9, 2020

To achieve a reductive design, the structure and materials used in every part must be scrutinized. Autodesk prepared a first-lot model that fulfilled Honda’s requirements for the part using Netfabb and Fusion 360. While there is still much that can be done to lighten parts, we can now see a way forward to reach our goals.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Additive manufacturing typically creates parts and components by building them layer by layer, based on a 3D computer model that is virtually sliced into many thin layers. Metals-based additive processes form parts by melting or sintering material in powder form. Qualification of parts made by AM now requires an extensive set of tests.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nebrija University (Spain) students undertook the redesign and technological improvement of a car of the Sodicars team that took part in the 2023 Dakar Rally in the top-class category (T1).The The collaboration focused on the development of the parts supporting the car’s sidepods.

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JULY 20, 2016

Success in developing a sustainable composite could reduce vehicle weight and lower energy consumption, while paring the use of petrochemicals and the impact of vehicle production on the environment. The mixture is then put through injection molding to shape into the desired part. 13 mm wide. mm with an average width of 25 μm.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For three years, about 60 partners worked together in the areas of sensor-fusion, electronic architectures and artificial intelligence coordinated by Infineon. This mechanism ensures the fail operationality of the system, for example, sensor fusion, trajectory planning and object recognition tasks of SAE Level 3 and 4 functions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2016

The BMW Group has been using components from 3D printers in series production since 2012; more than 10,000 additively-manufactured parts are built into the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Planar 3D printing technologies will enable much faster production times and more economical production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As part of the cash-plus-equity transaction, the entire Freemens engineering and sales team willÚ join the core team of ION. With the acquisition, ION will invest into this business and grow the portfolio of customers in India, US & other parts of EU. Freemens products are chemistry-agnostic.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In addition, Novelis CSCs will provide an environment to demonstrate product concepts, simulate customer processes and performance in use, as well as leverage data to educate stakeholders throughout the supply chain about elements ranging from forming to costing.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. Developed in concert with numerous manufacturers, the DRAMA initiative includes the new powder bed fusion AM facility mentioned previously.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2020

MIIT released its 329 th batch of vehicle manufacturer and product announcements and its third recommendation catalog for new energy vehicles. The rear suspension swing arms are made of stamped parts, superior in strength and weight. It is the longest range among electric vehicles available in China. kWh/100km power consumption.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

2012 was something of a transition year for Ford with its electric drive vehicles; the venerable Escape Hybrid was phasing out, while only the new Fusion Hybrid and the MKZ Hybrid had a full year of sales. But for the first nine months of 2013, Ford’s sales of conventional hybrids (Fusion, C-MAX and MKZ) zoomed to 58,262 units, or 14.9%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2017

The memorandum of understanding follows HTS’s recent decision to locate its headquarters and production operations in a Knox County business park adjacent to DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL. These specially placed coolant lines allow parts to cool faster, which increases productivity for molding and casting manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Advanced manufacturing methods will be used to make test batteries that replicate the performance of full-scale production batteries, allowing for faster implementation in future production vehicles. Previous investments have been focused on battery production, and now our state becomes a research core for batteries.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

HF35 will be used in five electrified vehicles being introduced this year: C-MAX Hybrid; C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid; Fusion Hybrid; Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid; and the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. Ford developed the HF35 supported in part by a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE). Planetary Gearset. Transfer Gears.

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MARCH 28, 2018

The Vista sensor is the fourth LiDAR product developed by the Cepton team over its first 20 months in operation. Built on Cepton’s patented micro-motion technology (MMT) platform, Vista has no rotational or frictional parts, consisting only of high-maturity automotive components for expedited automotive grade certification.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2020

The all-new Escape plug-in has more power and more passenger space than the Fusion Energi plug-in, as well as up to four times the cargo volume behind its second-row seats. — Hau Thai-Tang, Ford chief product development and purchasing officer. The Escape Plug-In Hybrid is part of Ford’s investment of more than $11.5

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

Since then, through the end of November 2015, the company has sold a total of 447,200 units of an expanded hybrid line-up that includes two plug-in hybrids: the C-MAX Energi (on-sale October 2012) and the Fusion Energi (on-sale February 2013). Ford—the top seller of plug-in hybrid vehicles and second largest electrified vehicle (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2017

Nanostructured steel materials company NanoSteel recently launched its first product for the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process. Expanding the potential use of 3D printing in a wide variety of hard materials markets, BLDRmetal L-40 is designed to be used for parts including tools, dies, bearings and gears.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Diess was part of Infineon’s supervisory board from 2015 to 2020. MathWorks Simulink® products now support our latest AURIX TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers. Engineers designing advanced electric vehicles or sensor fusion can use the hardware support package, even before silicon is available.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

Among the technologies Ford incorporated into its drivable multi-material lightweight vehicle (MMLV) ( earlier post ) is an advanced polycarbonate (PC) glazing solution from SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business that makes possible a 35% weight reduction compared to the same window on a 2013 model year Ford Fusion production vehicle.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

In addition to improved energy efficiency and carbon reduction, the proposed technology should deliver additional benefits such as increased throughput, improved product quality, and inherently safer and more reliable operation. The development and use of tooling is an important process step in the production of automobiles.

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