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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

Green Car Congress

The final SuperTruck demonstrator ran a five-day, 312-mile (502-kilometer) roundtrip route on Texas Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Dallas, at a weight of 65,000 lbs (29,484 kg) GVWR at a speed of 65 mph (105 km/h), where it achieved an average result of 12.2 engine brake thermal efficiency. mpg (19.26 Aerodynamics.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

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. At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

Cars That Think

This was how hackers managed to burrow into thousands of government, banking, and enterprise systems as part of last year’s Solar Winds breach. In 2017 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), pp. IEEE, 2017. The Zero Trust Security Paradigm. Accessed March 16, 2022. 17 Rashid, Fahmida Y.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25.

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