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a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, to co-develop a medium-duty extended range electric truck. VIA’s vehicle integration capability, at both production facilities in Utah and Mexico, provides a range of commercial vehicles to meet zero emissions requirements. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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Ford’s new plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) Transit Custom van ( earlier post ) made its debut at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle 2017 event in Millbrook, UK. The vehicle makes its first appearance as Ford prepares 20 PHEV Transits for the 12-month fleet customer trial in London that begins in late 2017. million (US$6.1-million)

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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is currently going through the final phase of ID. These are final test runs under everyday conditions between Barcelona, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Hannover. —Kai Grünitz, Head of Vehicle Development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. By virtue of its design, the ID.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The Sierra plant will be the first commercial-scale plant in the US to convert municipal solid waste feedstock, or household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled, into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. The novel reactor system combines an optimized catalyst with a unique fixed-bed tubular reactor geometry.

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The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Collaborating with Lead Partner ULEMCo on the project are: Westminster City Council; Veolia; London Fire Brigade; Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Commercial and Ocado. Aberdeen City Council has a plan to convert a range of their vehicles to dual-fuel hydrogen: refuse trucks, HGV road sweepers and delivery vans.

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APRIL 10, 2018

The leading European bus manufacturer plans to launch its new electric Citaro bus ( earlier post ) at the IAA Commercial Vehicles event in September. Akasol opened a series production plant for commercial vehicle battery systems in Langen (Hessen, Germany) in autumn 2017.

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Ford is investing an additional £190 million (US$306 million) at its Dagenham London site to produce a family of all-new advanced 2.0-liter liter diesel engines (code-named Panther ) in a wide range of outputs due to be applied in commercial vehicles starting in 2016 and in cars starting in 2018. Earlier post.) million (US$14.3

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A well-known case study relates to the opening up of data by Transport for London (TfL) to allow commercial organizations to develop apps to assist people with traveling across the capital. The OpenLV project was launched at Western Power Distribution’s ‘Balancing Act’ event, which took place in London on 5 October 2017.

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The DRIVEN consortium—led by artificial intelligence company Oxbotica , which is developing next-gen autonomous vehicles—will test a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in an end-to-end journey from London to Oxford. DRIVEN is supported by a £8.6-million

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With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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MAY 26, 2022

A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads. Shell plc, London, England. The sharp drop in system efficiency is due to parasitic losses to the air compressor and other system accessories.

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King Charles III’s Crown Estate said that it had begun court proceedings against Twitter over alleged unpaid rent on its London headquarters, Reuters reported. Although the estate hasn’t shared how much rent Twitter allegedly owed, it said it brought the action after making contact with Twitter.

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Other mostly European destinations, such as Geneva; London; San Sebastien, Spain; Copenhagen; Prague; Stockholm; Oslo; and Reykjavik had consistently lower levels of air pollution. Some destinations studied—Beijing, Shanghai, and Milan—are heavily polluted during certain months but have relatively cleaner air at other times.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039.

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Lockheed Martin, known for developing the world’s leading supersonic combat aircraft, the F-16, the F-35, and F-22, as well as the Mach 3+ SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft, is committed to fostering new innovations and developing supersonic technologies with civil and commercial applications.

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We started one year ago at TechCrunch in London with the vision of partnering with cities to improve the efficiency on their streets. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Volkswagen Osnabrück planned, developed and built the MOIA car in only ten months. A driver app and comprehensive fleet management complete the system.

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Erling Hesla Proponent of industrial safety standards Life senior member, 98; died 18 May Hesla was dedicated to improving electrical safety and the development of IEEE Standard 902-1988: Guide for Maintenance, Operation, and Safety of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems. of Ontario, Canada. He founded Bio-Tech in 1970 in Lynden, Ont.,

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The new all-electric van is running through its final test run under everyday conditions across Europe, from Barcelona, Paris, London, and Amsterdam to Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Hannover. Buzz concept car at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2017. Buzz prototypes are in the final phase of trials. VW Group revealed the ID.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

million electric vehicles in use across London, the East and South East of England where UK Power Networks delivers electricity—including London’s buses and taxis. It will do this by using power electronics and automated switching to move electricity from heavily loaded substations to nearby substations with spare capacity.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

A team at University College London (UCL) has used a lung-inspired approach to designing flow fields to improve significantly the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Coppens (2017) “A lung-inspired approach to scalable and robust fuel cell design” Energy Environ. Background. —Trogadas et al. Resources. Trogadas, J.

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UPS’ long-term commitment to sustainability is transforming commercial transportation and logistics, spurring growth in the clean fuels market and enabling critical engineering advances. UPS deepened its commitment to alternative fuels in 2012, when it set the goal of reaching 1 billion miles driven with alternative fuels by the end of 2017.

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Their CPAP machine was commercialized in 2014 and is now being used in more than 35 countries. To develop medical devices to improve comprehensive care for newborns, she and Oden helped launch Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies , known as NEST360, in 2017. The initiative developed the NEST360 newborn tool kit.

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MARCH 23, 2017

The London Taxi Company (LTC) officially opened the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range-extended electric vehicles. The all-new electric taxi goes on sale first in London in Q4 2017, and then globally in early 2018. —Carl-Peter Forster, Chairman of the London Taxi Company.

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Despite this, an analysis of more than 1,800 major roads show that a small number of these—81 or 4%—are due to breach legal pollution limits for NO 2 , with 33 of these outside of London. In April 2017, the UK Government published its Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy which identifies £1.2 billion (US$3.5

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Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London.

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In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. You roust your family and run to the car.

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MAY 1, 2017

Transport for London (TfL) recently launched a tender for the bulk procurement of fuel cell buses. The bulk procurement of buses is intended significantly to increase yearly order volumes in Europe and will play a key role in reducing costs and bringing this technology closer to a commercial reality.

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MARCH 27, 2018

The ISC break-through received the prestigious R&D100 Award in 2016 and was runner-up NASA invention of the year in 2017 and is now part of NASA’s “Crewed Space Vehicle Battery Safety Requirements.”. KULR will begin shipping the ISC and ISC trigger cells in October, 2018. The ISC is a major step towards making battery technologies safer.

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The bus will begin operation with RATP in September this year and will run until February 2017—so spanning the extremes of hot and cold temperatures in the French capital. In China, BYD’s new commercial vehicle factory in Qingdao, Shandong province, started production last week. RATP trial. Capacity expansion.

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Investors hoped these systems would quickly find commercial applications. By 2017, the team had 1.5 By 2017, many of the contenders' error rates had fallen to 5 percent, and the organizers ended the contest. million terms and 24.5 million rules. Yet Cyc is still nowhere near achieving general intelligence.

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Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The two busiest airports, Dubai and London Heathrow, could each see more than 300 operations per day.

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But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines. In our view, this is purely a deployment question,” says Aaron Smith , chief commercial officer for the floating wind-tech developer Principle Power , based in Emeryville, Calif., Scotland’s deeper waters are therefore the U.K.’s s next frontier.

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