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Researchers propose fire-preventing "anti-short layer" for EV batteries

Green Car Reports

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) have proposed a new way to prevent fires in lithium-ion batteries.

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Kicking It With Robots

Cars That Think

In July of 2010, I traveled to Singapore to take care of my then 6-year-old son Henry while his mother attended an academic conference. When I told Guizzo I was going to be in Singapore, he told me that RoboCup, an international robot soccer competition, was going on at the same time. But I was really there for the robots.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

He briefly worked at Hyundai Electronics (now Hynix) and then became a star engineering professor at the National University of Singapore for 10 years. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Cho Byung-Jin: Cho has authored more than 300 technical papers on various subjects. Patents: 15 (3 in the United States, 12 in South Korea).

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

Furui was a member of several IEEE committees and served as general co-chair of this year’s IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , held in May in Singapore. He wrote Microprocessor Logic Design , a widely used textbook, as well as numerous articles for professional and trade magazines.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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