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JULY 9, 2012

China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report. —Energy-saving and new energy vehicle plan. L/100km (40 mpg US) or less.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

The BMW Group is increasingly relying on innovations from the fields of digitalization and Industry 4.0 We are taking advantage of the wide range of available technological innovations and working closely with universities and start-ups. We are already working with tomorrow’s Industry 4.0 in production logistics.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents. Prominent technology and industry thought leaders like Larry will be instrumental in helping us make this vision a reality. He received a B.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel.

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The company has also created three new industry-focused large models—one for the electric power industry, one for banking, and another one for aerospace —by fine-tuning the company’s ERNIE 3.0 Titan model with industry data and expert knowledge in unsupervised learning tasks.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Jaguar Land Rover announced the creation of two new Centers of Excellence for Engine Combustion Research at two leading UK universities. million) investment will be shared equally between University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford to support the development of new research facilities and fund two 5-year study programs.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

is introducing the industry’s first embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution for use in next-generation automotive applications. Embedded UFS solutions have been used in a variety of mobile applications since early 2015, when Samsung introduced 128GB embedded memory based on the JEDEC UFS 2.0 Samsung Electronics Co.,

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MARCH 12, 2021

Cuberg spun out of Stanford University in 2015 with the goal of commercializing next-generation battery technology based on a liquid electrolyte combined with a lithium metal anode. Among Northvolt industrial partners and customers are ABB, BMW Group, Scania, Siemens, Vattenfall, Vestas and the Volkswagen Group.

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APRIL 10, 2021

million during the next three years on developing green solutions for the future of the maritime industry. The Danish shipping company is the initiator of the consortium which, with the companies Danfoss, Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S, Sterling PlanB and Stuart Friezer Marine, also consists of research engineers from Aalborg University.

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JULY 9, 2015

—Shinji Suzuki, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo. The broad timeline for implementation is: Formulation of a business plan during FY 2015 ~ 2016; Design and construction of a plant from FY 2016 ~ 2018; Trial operation in 2019; and. Commencement of fuel supplies in FY 2020.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide—three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. Chemical pollution is a great and growing global problem.

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AUGUST 15, 2015

A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

OXIS predicts it will achieve a cell capacity of 33Ah by mid-2015. OXIS CEO Huw Hampson-Jones says that the company is on schedule to release commercial cells for use in applications in the USA and Europe in 2015. In addition, OXIS has achieved an increase in cell capacity to 25 Ah—a twelve-fold improvement in 18 months.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

To support the planned commercial launch of fuel cell electric vehicles by automakers in 2015 (FCEVs), California needs 68 hydrogen fueling stations in five clusters in which most early adopters are expected, according to a new report issued by the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP).

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

Less traffic on the roads during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK led to a reduction in air pollution but may have caused potentially damaging surface ozone levels to rise, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of York. The 25–75% range is shown by the shaded area.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. Dr. Martin Ebner received his PhD in Material Science at the ETH University Zurich. Dr. William C. The special prize for applied research is worth €15,000.

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JULY 9, 2014

Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. The EPA estimates that 8.8 megatonnes (9.7

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JUNE 30, 2015

Twenty-one years later, the ARC, which operates as a consortium of six universities [ 2 ] collaborating with partners from both industrial and government sectors, gathered once again on the University of Michigan’s North Campus for its 21 st Annual Program Review. Click to enlarge. Footnotes. [ 1 ] Gilbert, D.,

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JULY 10, 2023

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. Such pure high quality sulfuric acid is in high demand in industrial applications and an important step in reducing environmental impact. Roth et al.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

A team of researchers at Xiamen University in China has examined the factors influencing electric vehicle uptake in major Chinese cities. Since 2009, China has overtaken the US in terms of total vehicle production and has become the largest single automotive market in the world; in 2015, 24.6 billion during the same period.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Like 40 years ago, 1984, when Maruti came into India, it changed the auto industry. On the game plan ahead, Jindal said JSW Group is here to disrupt the Indian automotive industry, “JSW is a relatively aggressive group which believes in scale and we plan to create disruption. So that is exactly what has happened.

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MARCH 4, 2011

The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. The company and the university have applied for patents.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. Credit: ACS, Boot 2008.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion above the FY 2015 Enacted level, sustains DOE’s role as the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and develops and operates advanced scientific user facilities at the National Laboratories to maintain the nation’s primacy in science and innovation.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

Established automotive industry companies—not Silicon Valley—are leading the development of autonomous driving technology, according to a new report from the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. Carnegie Mellon University and MIT have four and seven unique inventions, respectively.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales worldwide by 2015, up from $878 million in 2010.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Neste Oil collaborated with Aalto University School of Chemical Technology on developing microbial oil technology. The plant will be used to develop microbial oil production processes and test various raw materials for producing microbial oil, such as straw and other agricultural residues, as well as industrial waste and residues.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the PTT Chemical Public Company Ltd. DGLA’s market potential is estimated at $300 million by 2015. PTT) in Thailand have signed a research and development collaboration agreement for commercial development of BGU’s proprietary green algae strain.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Baowu Steel Group (China’s largest steel producer) and Tsinghua University to develop and implement new methods to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental performance across the steel value chain.

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JULY 27, 2012

The Ohio Third Frontier awarded $3 million to the University of Dayton Research Institute to provide specialized materials for use in additive manufacturing. By 2015, the sale of additive manufacturing products and services worldwide is expected to grow to $3.7 Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Brian Rice. billion from $1.71

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NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have succeeded in producing a completely rare-earth free high-quality Fe-Ni magnet. This structure is formed through an extremely slow cooling rate of about one Kelvin per million years in the universe. hard magnets based on L1 0 FeNi). —Makino et al.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values. This gas has very few industrial applications. This would have been a big win for climate.

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JULY 29, 2020

The study, by scientists from the University of Leeds, UK and the Southern University of Science and Technology, China, analyzed air pollutant concentrations from China’s national network of around 1,300 monitoring stations to quantify the response of air pollution across China during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg The US Department of Energy (DOE) 2015 cost target for hydrogen is $2.00-$3.00/kg

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MARCH 13, 2017

An Ohio-based initiative to develop affordable, safer and recyclable compressed-gas fuel tanks for the trucking and automotive industry, led by the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), is underway with the kick-off of its first collaborative project.

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JUNE 1, 2021

A new study led by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Hokkaido University and the University of Washington explains why. During most of the 20 th century, sulfur dioxide emissions increased with industrialization in many parts of the world. The open-access paper on the results is published in Science Advances.

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