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BMW unveils production i8 plug-in hybrid; 94 mpg; on sale in US in 2014 priced from $135,925

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The combustion engine and electric motor, battery pack, power electronics, chassis components, and structural and crash functions are all arranged within the aluminum Drive module, while the central element of the Life module is the i8’s CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastic) passenger cell. They also have a constant phase difference.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. ICESat lost one laser altimeter after just 36 days of data collection in 2003, and by late 2009 all the satellite’s lasers had stopped working. In the late 2000s, IPR surveying got an unexpected boost.