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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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BMW’s software development department was established in 2002 and is now located in Mountain View (USA), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Munich and Ulm (Germany), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing (China), with more than 8,000 software specialists worldwide. The Shenyang R&D Center has a global-leading EMC laboratory.

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. The BuG ReMeDEE consortium includes industrial partners LanzaTech (US) and Bijson Innovations Pvt.

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DOE awards more than $5M to two projects developing advanced hydrogen fuel cell components

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At the same time, fuel cell durability has doubled, expensive platinum content has been reduced by a factor of five, and the cost of fuel cells has already fallen 80% since 2002. Eaton Corporation, Kettering University, Ballard Power Systems, and Electricore, Inc., 3M Company, up to $3.1 Eaton Corporation, up to $2.1

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany.

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Toyota introduces new LPG hybrid taxi in Japan; trial of lane-specific congestion info from taxi data

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The new model showcases a people-friendly, universal design that provides usability and comfort to a wide range of people through continual innovations and improvements, from grab handles to the overall vehicle structure. Toyota began its venture into the taxi industry in Japan in 1936 with the introduction of the Toyota Model AA.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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He joined its Junior ROTC at his high school in Dayton, Ohio, and won a scholarship from the corps to attend the University of Notre Dame , in Indiana. He participated in the university's USAF ROTC program before earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 1987. In 2017 he was appointed DARPA director.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk