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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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He served as Chief Engineer for Ford’s hybrid technologies during 2003 and was also Chief Engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Rita Lane, former Vice President of Operations, Apple Inc.,

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Draper awarded patent on electrostatic motors; family under development

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Esashi (2003) “High power electrostatic motor and generator using electrets,” TRANSDUCERS '03. 12 th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. US20190253000A1: Electrostatic motor. Tanaka and M. Digest of Technical Papers (Cat. 03TH8664), Boston, MA, USA, pp. 492-495 vol.1, 1, doi: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1215361.

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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Toyoda spoke in a news conference that was livestreamed from a memorial hall in Nagoya that serves as a museum for the founding family. In 2022, Hino Motors , a truck maker that’s also part of the Toyota group, said it had systematically falsified emissions data dating back as far as 2003. million vehicles.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco. He was an active IEEE volunteer and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation from 1999 to 2003 and of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2003 to 2007.

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Forget the Milano EV – Alfa Romeo changes name to something non-Italian-sounding

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Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato said in a news conference today that the company tried to explain why keeping the name Milano was fair play for a list of reasons, one of them being that the car was designed in Italy, but decided the headache was just too much. Things must have gotten a bit hairy.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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He joined in 2003 as a research scientist, developing computer vision software for the company's imaging machines. The IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, he says, was one of the earliest in its field and "the only venue to showcase such research for a long time.". Siemens Corporate Technology , in Princeton, N.J.,

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Infiniti introducing production-ready variable compression ratio engine at Paris Motor Show

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Nissan, in a 2003 paper, said that its multi-link geometry resolved those previous issues. Infiniti will present more information on the VC-T engine at Mondial de l’Automobile on September 29 during its press conference. Croguennec, S. Takahashi, N., and Hiyoshi, R. Ushijima, K., Hiyoshi, R. and Brevick, E.

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