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Study finds rates of LDV fuel consumption in US peaked in 2004; indications of peak motorization

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Based on the present data, his best estimates of the current annual fuel-consumption rates are: 398 gallons (1,507 liters) per person, 585 gallons (2,214 liters) per licensed driver, 1,033 gallons (3,910 liters) per household, and 530 gallons (2,006 liters) per registered vehicle. Fuel consumed per person. 2003 to 2004. -13%

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

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SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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US DOT launches largest-yet road test of V2X connected vehicle crash avoidance technology

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Conducted by University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), the Safety Pilot Model Deployment is a first-of-its-kind test of connected vehicle technology in the real world. DENSO has been working on V2X technology since 2003, with one of its main focuses being on DSRC devices. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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Fast-forward five years: Thrun transferred to Stanford in July 2003. In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. I personally liked the side story of GhostRider , an autonomous motorcycle that competed in both competitions but didnt quite cut it.

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Dalma Novak’s Journey From Professor to Entrepreneur

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An expert in developing technology to transmit microwave and millimeter-wave signals over long distances using optical fibers, she left a tenured position at the University of Melbourne , in Parkville, Australia, to join a venture-backed U.S. in electrical engineering in 1992 from the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

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Sandia Labs and HHC partner to design metal hydride hydrogen storage system for forklifts

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HHC, founded in 2003 by Dr. Craig Jensen, is a spin-off from the research effort on hydrogen storage materials that has been on-going since 1987 in his laboratories in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Instead, companies can simply purchase and store hydrogen tanks as needed.

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The President-Elect Candidates’ Plans to Further IEEE’s Mission

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She was named a top businesswoman in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park area, and she made the 2003 Business Leader Impact 100 list. In 2001 he founded the computational engineering science program at the University of California, Berkeley, chairing it until 2010. IEEE Fellow S.K. Ramesh S.K.

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