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US new light-duty diesel sales dropped slightly in 2016 to 280,000 units from 300,000 in 2015

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The US added more than 280,000 new diesel passenger vehicles across the country in 2016, with Texas, California and Florida having the highest numbers of diesel vehicles, according to a Diesel Technology Forum analysis of the latest Vehicles in Operation (VIO) data compiled by IHS Automotive (December 2016).

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Volvo Cars brings Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to the US

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Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Waycare has plans to expand to other areas in the future.

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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

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Reynolds’ family has farmed land in North Carolina for more than 300 years. North Carolina State University In this new work, the researchers focused on corn and soybean plants, given their importance to the global economy and food supply. He’s a cancer survivor who’s interested in health and giving back to society.

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Camber Ridge opening $60M tire testing facility with 0.5-mile oval indoor track

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Camber Ridge, LLC is partnering with Teton Capital, LLC to launch a new $60-million state-of-the-art facility for vehicle tire characterization, which will begin operations in 2016. The new facility is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the midst of the region’s growing automotive research and manufacturing cluster.

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Honda brings FCV Concept to N. America, promises new EV and PHEV models by 2018

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Honda staged the North American debut of the Honda FCV fuel cell vehicle at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS); the company also announced US availability for the FCV in 2016. Earlier post.). Honda also announced plans to introduce new VTEC Turbo engines to be built in Ohio and debut later in 2015.

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Study finds pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

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Ozone, a greenhouse gas and toxic air pollutant, is not emitted but forms when ultraviolet light hits nitrogen oxides. Jason West (2016) “Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward redistribution of emissions”. —Owen R. Cooper, co-author. Yuqiang Zhang, Owen R. Cooper, Audrey Gaudel, Anne M.

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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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This investment in the study of excited-state phenomena in energy materials will, in addition to pushing the frontiers of science, have wide-ranging applications in areas such as electronics, photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, information storage and energy storage. The new research projects will begin in Fiscal Year 2016.

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