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£600M investment for all-electric MINI production in the UK

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billion) on its Swindon, Hams Hall and Oxford plants since 2000. The Oxford plant celebrated its 110 th anniversary this year and has been successfully producing the current MINI Electric since 2019, where it is fully integrated into the production line with the conventional (ICE) models.

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SpaceX set to launch Japanese Moon lander, NASA ice surveyor cubesat

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In September 2019, just five months later, India’s first nationally developed Moon lander got even closer to a successful landing, losing control at a velocity of just 210 km/h (~130 mph) and an altitude of 330 meters (1080 ft). The Japanese startup has privately raised $210 million since it was founded in 2010.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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In “ Definition and Classification of Power System Stability: Revisited and Extended ,” the committee noted that converter-interfaced generation technology and load and transmission devices were increasingly being integrated, causing the dynamic response of power systems to become more dependent on complex fast-response power electronic devices.

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California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

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California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. All three, however, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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In 2000, “I decided my next car would be an EV when there was really nothing on the market,” White continued. “I I had it shipped to EV West in San Diego and they kept it for a year, converted it, and sent it back to me. Poker run, EV style White joined with Upson to launch the EAA chapter in 2019. “I It went up to 50 mph.”.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Later, the converted Kim would become the “loudest-speaking” professor at KAIST, according to several fellow faculty members, and they say his absence made the whole campus seem quiet. During the third period, from 2000 on, industry seized the helm of semiconductor development. Kim rose quickly within Fairchild’s hierarchy.