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OCTOBER 19, 2013

The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans to proceed with the design of a unique environment for testing connected and automated vehicles. Current plans call for the facility to be completed by fall 2014 at a cost of about $6.5

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APRIL 29, 2021

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its award-winning artificial intelligence software system, the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning ( MENNDL ), to General Motors for use in vehicle technology and design. Here are the results – the good ones, the bad ones.’

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MARCH 28, 2014

Jef Boeke, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics, has synthesized the first functional chromosome in yeast, an important step in the emerging field of synthetic biology—designing microorganisms to produce novel medicines, raw materials for food, and biofuels. —Annaluru et al.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Researchers have achieved a significant boost in the storage capacity of magnesium-ion batteries through a new design for the cathode and a new understanding of the electrolyte. The battery demonstrates the reversible intercalation of 1 and 1.7 Magnesium ion is known to be hard to insert into a host.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Virginia Tech will host a university-wide competition for students to design on-demand, remote-controlled 3-D printed aircraft and ground vehicles. Undergraduate and graduate students, individually or in groups, are invited to participate from across the university, no matter their course of study.

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

IBM and the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) in Mexico have created a Smarter Cities Exploration Center. The University will foster the assimilation of high-level competencies and expertise by its doctoral students and researchers, to support efforts designed to tackle issues that have a high social and economic impact for Latin America.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

General Motors and its joint ventures sold a record 3,539,970 vehicles in China in 2014, an average of one vehicle every 9 seconds and almost 9,700 vehicles each day. GM ended 2014 with more than 4,530 dealerships nationwide. GM’s sales were up 12.0% from the previous high of 3,160,377 vehicles sold in 2013. to 164,258 units.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, led by Professor Yi Cui, are proposing a new nanoscale design inspired by pomegranates for high energy capacity but large-volume-change lithium battery anodes such as those using silicon. Schematic of the pomegranate-inspired design.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has found that engineering design modifications that compromise other performance attributes—specifically acceleration—offer a pathway to reduce the cost to automakers of compliance with fuel economy standards. —Whitefoot et al. 1-6) years after the regulations are announced.

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JUNE 18, 2015

A prototype automotive waste heat recovery system has been fired up on a recently commissioned test rig at the University of Brighton. Libertine’s technology leverages a combination of piston geometry, electrical machine design and cylinder construction. 2014.05.041. 2014.05.041. Champagne, L. Champagne, L. 2013.08.045.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Consultancy Frost &Sullivan has selected UK-based lithium-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy to receive the 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. Schive to develop advanced lithium-sulfur batteries that combine its cell technology with their expertise in designing and manufacturing battery packs.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech and its partners, The City College of New York (CUNY), Louisiana State University (LSU) and Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) will collaborate to extend LanzaTech’s core fermentation technology to unlock the potential of waste methane gases through novel and smaller-scale bioreactor design.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering are working with Powdermet Inc. , To meet the needs of a growing market, designing electric motors without rare-earth metals is a crucial step, especially for sustainable supply chains. Polikarpov, E.; Darsell, J.; Kramer, Matthew J.; Zarkevich, Nikolai A.;

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The project will cover the entire battery value chain from extraction of raw materials, design and manufacturing of battery cells and packs, and finally the recycling and disposal in a circular economy, with a strong focus on sustainability. billion in public support. Earlier post.). Background.

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JULY 16, 2014

2014 Yaris Hybrid. Toyota’s refreshed 2014 Yaris for Europe offers a choice of four powertrains, including a thoroughly reworked 3-cylinder 1.0 Complementing the reduction in unwanted vibration through increased body stiffness and suspension re-tuning, the new 2014 Yaris also benefits from a marked reduction in interior noise levels.

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APRIL 6, 2015

VIBE provides an open architecture framework for pre-experimental design simulation as part of the CAEBAT program. Other CAEBAT partners have developed commercial tools that are compatible with the software infrastructure we’ve developed, and we’re deploying a non-commercial platform for researchers at universities and national labs.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a new technology for direct solar water-splitting—i.e., an “artificial leaf” to produce hydrogen—based on a nanowire mesh that lends itself to large-scale, low-cost production.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Researchers at Rice University led by Dr. James Tour have developed a hierarchical nanocomposite material of graphene nanoribbons combined with polyaniline and sulfur (Sulfur-PANI-GNRs, SPG) using an inexpensive, simple method. Schematic illustration of the synthesis of SPGs. Credit: ACS, Li et al. Click to enlarge. —Li et.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

This code can be used to identify optimal charging profiles for any material and design parameters. The Washington University in Saint Louis team is providing the code in executable form, with material properties editable in the text file. In addition, an executable form of the code has been developed and provided. —Suthar et al.

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MARCH 28, 2013

The work at Princeton University will be conducted in the laboratories of Professor Christodoulos Floudas, Ph.D. Floudas is an expert in chemical process systems engineering, with a specific emphasis on process synthesis and design, interaction of process design and control and process operations. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. Launch geothermal “Play Fairway” analysis effort in FY 2014 and demonstrate the ability to develop a 5-megawatt greenfield Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) reservoir by 2020. watt utility, $2.37/watt watt commercial, and $3.10/watt

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MARCH 4, 2016

NASA has awarded a contract for the preliminary design of a quiet, “low boom” supersonic flight demonstration aircraft—the first in a new series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. The Lockheed Martin team includes subcontractors GE Aviation and Tri Models Inc.

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MARCH 10, 2022

The first day and a half of the Symposium will feature keynote presentations by executives from aircraft developers Airbus, Bartini, Piasecki Aircraft and ZeroAvia, as well as hydrogen companies Shell, Plug Power, Universal Hydrogen and ZEV Station. The background. The directory is part of the VFS Electric VTOL News website.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Porterbrook and the University of Birmingham’s Center for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) announced that the UK’s first hydrogen train—HydroFLEX ( earlier post )— will be tested on the mainline railway following a successful proof-of-concept.

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MARCH 23, 2014

A team from Brown University and General Motors Global Research and Development has calculated optimum design geometries that will avert fracture and debonding in silicon/carbon heterostructures—such as the hollow core-shell nanostructure proposed by Prof. Credit: ACS, Stournara et al. Click to enlarge. —Stournara et al.

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MARCH 16, 2014

University of Utah chemists have discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials. Their study is published in the journal Nature. This should be applicable in a broad range of reactions.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

VUB’s material science experts are creating low-cost composites to improve the safety of battery packs that are designed for recyclability and feature VITO’s smart cell monitoring electronics. Blackstone Technology is lowering the cost of manufacturing tomorrow’s 3D printed lithium-ion cells using active materials from Umicore.

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MARCH 31, 2024

Troy, our Head of Software & Controls, former Tesla charging engineering leader, and a pioneer of the NACS design and standard explains why NACS offers you a best-in-class outdoor travel experience. It’s becoming the sort of de facto standard and it’s been fun to watch that over time,” the Lightship executive noted.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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MARCH 11, 2020

In 2014, it received silver level certification for the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) sustainability commitment. In assessing its transition to sustainable mobility, LTD employed a partnership with the University of Oregon (UO) to study opportunities and challenges.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Twenty-three of the projects receiving funding are headed by universities, eight are led by the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and one project is run by a non-profit organization. FY 2014 EFRC Awards. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Riverside. Northwestern University.

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MAY 28, 2014

DELIVER will have its world premiere at FISITA World Automotive Congress, which starts on 2 June 2014 in Maastricht (NL). Ten partner companies are involved in the design and construction of an electric light commercial vehicle. The DELIVER project ends in October 2014. Electric (Battery) Motors'

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Ryan Dehoff, staff scientist and metal additive manufacturing lead at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL, recently presented the research in an invited presentation at the Materials Science & Technology 2014 conference in Pittsburgh. Ryan Dehoff et al.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The objective of POWERFUl was to design engines for light-duty urban and micro-urban vehicles (segment A and B), capable of reducing CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. The engine has been designed for small vehicles such as the Renault Twingo, in which it has been applied. Two-stroke diesel in test car. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Graphic from GM, Edwards AMR 2014 presentation. This flexibility offers a high degree of freedom for design and engine manufacturers need to balance the cost of hardware testing with turn-around time and practicality for mass production. The current design optimization process is very time- and labor-intensive. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

which designs critical systems. He has been a guest lecturer at California State University, the University of California, and Xiamen University. He was 2016 president of the IEEE Computer Society, 2021 vice president of the IEEE Technical Activities Board, and 2012–2014 director of Division VIII.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

A team led by researchers from Stanford University has developed a simplified, discrete-time analytical model of homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) dynamics. The model forms the basis for the design of a simple controller that reduces combustion timing variations in simulation.

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