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Swiss team develops effective and low-cost solar water-splitting device; 14.2% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

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A 12-14 m 2 system installed in Switzerland would allow the generation and storage of enough hydrogen to power a fuel cell car over 10,000 km every year. The researchers used standard heterojunction cells to prove the concept; by using the best cells of that type, they would expect to achieve a performance above 16%. Schüttauf et al.

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Mercedes-Benz Trucks delivering 10 eActros electric heavy-duty trucks to customers for two years of fleet testing

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At the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover in 2016, Mercedes-Benz displayed its concept for a heavy-duty electric distribution truck for urban areas: the Urban eTruck ( earlier post ). The charging standard used is the Combined Charging System, CCS. million).

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Renault boosts range of ZOE EV to 400 km with new 41 kWh pack option

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The ranges are for ZOEs equipped with either the 75- or 90-horsepower version of the standard R75/90 motor, previously known as the R240 ( earlier post ). The standard ZOE battery has a capacity of 22 kWh, with a corresponding range of 240 km NEDC (149 miles) and estimated real-world range of 170 km (106 miles). Smartphone app.

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Finally, Tesla Confirms The Wireless Charging & A Little More On Wireless Charging of EVs

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Apart from sharing this photo as part of a presentation, the company never made any comments on this Regard. Drivers must contend with disparate charging network and connection standards while using EVs as there are many charging standards. Brusa Elektronik AG Brusa Elektronik AG was established in Switzerland in 1985.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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So we called 20 subjects from all across Switzerland, some people also from outside Switzerland, with different levels of expertise. So what I learned—and correct me if I’m wrong—is that you’re using a lot of deep learning on the perception side, so as part of a 3D construction, semantic understanding. But they were quite good.

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The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

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Some years later, I had the good fortune of visiting the huge headquarters of the cipher machine company Crypto AG (CAG), in Steinhausen, Switzerland, and befriending a high-level cryptographer there. Parts of this story emerged in leaks by CAG employees before 2018 and, especially, in a subsequent investigation by the.

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NVIDIA deep learning software platform gets trio of big updates

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delivers accelerated training of deep neural networks, like University of Oxford’s VGG and Microsoft’s ResNet, which won the 2016 ImageNet challenge. The Tesla P100 for PCIe is available in a standard PCIe form factor and is compatible with today's GPU-accelerated servers.