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Porsche launches carbon offset program in US

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Following its corporate fleets, PCNA will soon offer Porsche Impact to USA customers who want to reduce the CO 2 footprint of their internal-combustion engines. The two Experience Centers are popular destinations, with more than 335,000 visitors combined since opening in 2015 in Atlanta and 2016 in LA.

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Hertz adds 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to rental fleet

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The Hertz Corporation, which includes the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands, has expanded of its Green Traveler Collection car rental fleet to include the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid ( earlier post ) in select cities across the US. Additionally, the company currently has 15 solar locations, with projected growth to 20 by 2016.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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A new white paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses which policy actions are behind the regional leading markets in the US for electric vehicles. The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). —Kwan et al.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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She has served as the IEEE Atlanta Section’s secretary, vice chair, and chair. Brunasso has presented papers at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium , the IEEE Radar Conference , and the IEEE Ultra-Wideband Conference. She is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society and HKN. IEEE Fellow Ali H.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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They were “homegrown” businesses—largely created within 3M and commercialized and built with the energy of many internal sponsors and champions. Wind-vortex generators: In 2016, 3M developed a technology to help wind turbines generate airflow more optimally to ensure they work better, in partnership with Smartblade.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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In September 2016 the first global digital elevation map with a 2-meter height accuracy was produced. By collecting more detailed information, we can better understand, for example, how the forests are changing internally by imaging every layer,” he says, referring to the emergent layer and the canopy, understory, and forest floor.