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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. California. So we will be moving forward with one national standard very soon.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.S.

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UC San Diego hires top robotics expert to lead Contextual Robotics Institute

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Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. In 2011, Christensen was awarded the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award, widely considered the world’s most prestigious robotics honor.

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AC Propulsion expands electric drive manufacturing capacity in China; support from Chinese government

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Our order book is overflowing, so we’re expanding to meet future demand. We are gratified to be participating in the vast growth of the Chinese electric vehicle market and expect to have the first AC Propulsion-powered vehicles on the road in China in 2011. —AC Propulsion CEO Tom Gage.

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New “convection battery” could significantly increase performance of existing as well as new, improved battery chemistries

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2011), they concluded that: Flow batteries have a few major advantages over traditional diffusion-based battery designs. Research on the convection battery, initiated in 2008, has received funding from both the National Science Foundation and the Energy Innovations Small Grant Program of the California Energy Commission.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus. He authored or coauthored more than 1,000 papers and books on speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. The SERC is an arm of the U.S.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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