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City of Gdynia orders 30 Solaris Trollino trolleybuses with Li-ion battery packs for off-wire driving

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Modernization of trolleybuses begins this spring, while the supply of the trolleybuses to Gdynia will begin in September this year and shall be completed by spring 2019. Gdynia was the buyer of the first trolleybus produced by Solaris in 2000. Trolleybuses in Gdynia have become a recognizable quality brand for green transport.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES). He served as chair of the U.S.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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From 2019 to 2022, I had the privilege of serving as president of the RoboCup Federation. RoboCup is an annual international competitive event that merges visionary thinking about how AI and robotics will change the world with practical robot design. The level of competition was, by today’s standards, not very high.

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European Parliament to vote on proposal to veto increased diesel emissions limits

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Parliament’s Environment Committee argues that MEPs should veto plans to relax the limits because this would undermine the enforcement of existing EU standards. In her concluding remarks, internal market Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska said that vetoing the proposed measures would only prolong today's unsatisfactory car testing regime.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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He has held several leadership positions in IEEE including 2019. He is also an active member of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section and has been active with several societies, standards, and the Future Directions Committee. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the 2016–2017 Region 5 director and the 2019 vice president of.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. During the third period, from 2000 on, industry seized the helm of semiconductor development. Frederick E. Chang Hae-Ja.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At current pace, the share will reach 2% by the end of 2019. Noel Perry, founder of Next 10. percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017. vehicles per 100 persons.