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Report: Sumitomo to begin selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles with US Hybrid

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Sumitomo, which is strengthening its automobile business and expects growth in the fuel cell market, plans to supply mostly Japanese commercial vehicle makers, according to the report. In 2015, Sumitomo Riko established Sumiriko FC Seal Co., The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Corp.,

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Toyota Research Institute displays Gen 2 autonomous test vehicle; machine vision and machine learning

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TRI plans to employ approximately 250 employees and is based in the United States, with offices in Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, CA (TRI-PAL), in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts (TRI-CAM), and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near the University of Michigan campus (TRI-ANN).

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New thermoelectric material offers higher output power than other available materials

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Ren, along with frequent collaborator Gang Chen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two former students, has formed a company called APower to commercialize the material. Opeil, Stephen Wilson, Ching-Wu Chu, and Zhifeng Ren (2015) “n-type thermoelectric material Mg 2 Sn 0.75 —Liu et al. 1424388112.

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Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

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As pollution controls were put into place on NO x emissions, by 2015, the systems in Europe, the United States, and East Asian urban areas became limited by NO x , meaning that further controls on NO x would help reduce ozone formation. Credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory /Josh Stevens. Click to enlarge.

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Exploring the adoption of EVs in the US, Europe and China; charging scenarios and infrastructure

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Within the US, it examines California, Massachusetts, and Michigan—states covering a range of differences in electric power generation and power market structures. In the US, President Obama declared an American goal of putting one million EVs on the road by 2015. sales but well below the run-rate needed to reach the 2015 target.

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Electrochemical Society and Toyota announce fellowship winners for projects in green energy technology

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The winners are Professor Patrick Cappillino, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Professor Yogesh (Yogi) Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Professor David Go, University of Notre Dame. 2015 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows. Patrick Cappillino, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

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ECS and Toyota request proposals for 2016-2017 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for projects in green energy technology

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The 2015 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows were: Prof. Patrick Cappillino, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Yogesh (Yogi) Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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