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2020 Ford Escape to offer hybrid and PHEV variants

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Escape, which debuted the world’s first hybrid SUV in 2005, brings back two hybrid choices for 2020—a standard hybrid and a plug-in variant—and introduces technologies ranging from drive modes and driver-assist features to electric vehicle ingenuity and on-board connectivity. The all-new 1.5-liter To help conserve fuel, the 1.5-liter

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U-M study finds current CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

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The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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New SoCalGas truck loan program for fleets interested in switching from diesel to near-zero natural gas trucks

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CWI natural gas engines have met the 2010 EPA standard for particulate matter (0.01 g/bhp-hr) since 2001. The ISX12N is the first Class 8 truck engine for larger heavy-duty vehicles to certify to the 0.02 g/bhp-hr optional standard. NO x exhaust emissions are 90% lower than the current EPA NO x limit of 0.2

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Toyota launches new Crown series sedans in Japan, including new hybrid models

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Toyota, which had originally introduced a mild-hybrid version of the Crown in 2001, first introduced a full-hybrid model based on a THS (Toyota Hybrid System) II system in 2008. Toyota says that the new 2AR-FSE engine achieves class-leading maximum thermal efficiency (compared to vehicles with similar engine displacement) of 38.5%

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Southern Oil to build new biofuels lab in Queensland; focus on renewable diesel and jet

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Together with this new world-class laboratory, which is being built with the support of the Federal Government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency, we take another critical step towards the development of a new renewables fuels industry for Queensland and Australia.

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Becoming a Leader at NASA

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Originally, Proctor was focused on astronomy, but during high school at an engineering exploration summer program he solved "a resistor equivalence problem that nobody else in the class had gotten [and] the instructor recommended I look at electrical engineering as a career instead." He got a master's in EE from Johns Hopkins University. "I

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Clarke , who penned 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Isaac Asimov , author of the Foundation series. Developing the SSIM index At the University of Illinois, Bovik took a class on digital image processing taught by Thomas Huang , a professor of electrical and computer engineering. In 2001 he and his team developed SSIM.