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Researchers transform waste tire char into efficient fuel cell catalysts

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A team of researchers in Italy has transformed chars—the least valuable by-product of waste-tire pyrolysis—into highly efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in alkaline fuel cells and metal air batteries. billion waste tires are produced yearly, including 2.6 Currently, about 1.5 2019.04.067.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

Cars That Think

Greetings from the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan! Beltran-Hernandez, Nicolas Erbetti, and Masashi Hamaya from OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. However, training the robot in the real world can be inefficient, and dangerous, and result in a lot of food waste.

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Hitachi Restructures, Spinning Off Automotive Systems Business; to Launch Group-Wide Strategies for Li-ion Battery and Renewables Businesses

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By the end of fiscal 2009, design, development and manufacturing bases both in Japan and overseas will be restructured, integrated or closed. Furthermore, in the Car Information Systems (CIS) business, where the market environment is changing considerably, ongoing business reforms will be stepped up at consolidated subsidiary Clarion Co.,

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Toyota Previews Generation III 2010 Prius Hybrid

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Waste material from the construction of the 2010 Prius generator—most likely center cuttings from production of the generator’s stamped steel stator plates—is reused in the construction of the electric motor that drives the vehicle’s air conditioning compressor.). The revised gearing compensates for the new motor-generator’s torque reduction.)

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Electric Car Watch #4: Toyota is the new Kodak

Plug In India

What a waste. For example, the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, says Japan will run out of electricity if all cars in Japan are EVs. For example, the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, says Japan will run out of electricity if all cars in Japan are EVs. In the USA, environmentalists are now calling for a boycott of the brand.

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Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

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Professor Steve Rayner, Director of InSIS at the University of Oxford, said: “The world has centuries of experience in decarbonising its energy supply and Japan has led the world in policy-driven improvements in energy efficiency. The Obama Administration has argued that one should never waste a good crisis.

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Leviton introduces 7.7 kW Evr-Green charging station

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The Evr-Green 320 has been tested in the USA, Japan & Korea by several major automakers, has been used in nearly 3,000 dealerships and is preferred in 11 electric vehicle platforms. —Manoj Karwa, Senior Director for Leviton’s Commercial & Industrial Business Unit.

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