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BMW Group sourcing aluminum produced using solar energy from EGA

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The aluminum produced using solar power is processed in the light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut to manufacture body and drive train components, including those needed for electric drive trains. Aluminum is light, strong and infinitely recyclable. Light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut.

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BMW Group opens new Additive Manufacturing Campus

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Our goal is to industrialize 3D printing methods more and more for automotive production, and to implement new automation concepts in the process chain. The BMW Group first started the additive manufacturing of prototype parts in 1991, for concept vehicles. —Milan Nedeljkovi?, BMW AG Board Member for Production.

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BASF and Hyundai Motor showcase RN30 concept at K Fair; new lightweight and performance materials

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Hyundai Motor unveiled the RN30 high-perfromance concept at the Paris Motor Show in September. BASF’s Elastoflex E, a spray impregnation polyurethane for very light and stiff sandwich structures consisting of a long-fiber reinforced surface layer and a paper honeycomb is the ideal material for these applications. The new i30.

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DOE announces $30M in funding for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies

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Light duty vehicles are an emerging application for fuel cells that already enable 95% lower petroleum consumption per mile than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Proposed cathode catalyst concepts should demonstrate the potential to meet or exceed DOE’s 2020 activity target of 0.044 A/cm 2 at 0.9 A/mg PGM at 0.1

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TU Bergakademie Freiberg launches OTTO-R project with VW Group, Shell, OMV as partners; P2X for green gasoline

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million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. Residual methanol and light hydrocarbons are separated downstream and recycled into the process. The large-scale Power-to-X project was launched in October 2016.

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Mercedes-AMG reveals performance hybrid and battery-electric AMG derivative strategy

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Mercedes-AMG laid out its new electrified drive strategy , which is based on two pillars: Performance hybrids with a completely independent drive concept under the technology label E PERFORMANCE. When developing our new E PERFORMANCE hybrid strategy, it was therefore immediately clear that we would pursue an independent concept for AMG.

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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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When Marianne Smith was teaching computer science in 2016 at Flathead Valley Community College , in Kalispell, Mont., She incorporated building an app with general computer science concepts such as conditionals, logic flow, and variables. With each concept learned, the students built a more difficult app. “It

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