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Industry report says steel can deliver weight savings to meet CAFE targets; aluminum growth in LDVs to peak around 2018

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The report, based on WSD’s independent consultation with steel, aluminum and automotive experts, is formally being presented to steel executives today at the worldsteel Annual Conference in Moscow. Aluminum automotive sheet deliveries will show spectacular gains through 2018, the WSD report says. —“AutoBody Warfare”.

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Video Friday: RACER Heavy

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Design iteration significantly decreases build time. From Humanoids 2018. Paper ] Charge Robotics is building robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction. This talk on EELS was presented at the 2024 Amazon MARS conference. [ Paper ] via [ JSK Lab ] Thanks, Kento!

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Rio Tinto, China Baowu, Tsinghua U sign MOU to explore improving environmental performance across steel value chain

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The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) invited the Parties to sign the MOU at its China International Steel and Raw Materials Conference held in Qingdao. China Baowu looks forward to exploring low-carbon metallurgical innovation with Rio Tinto and Tsinghua University, and building a low-carbon industrial value chain.

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LinkedIn co-founder calls out Elon Musk’s call for temporary halt on AI development

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In a recent discussion at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference 2023, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman shared his reservations about Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s views on AI development. Elon Musk has been building up an AI team in several of his companies. “Elon tends to have an ‘I must build it with my own hands.’

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MISC, Samsung Heavy, Lloyd’s Register and MAN partner to develop ammonia-fueled tanker

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This builds on the technology development pathway that MAN ES presented at the NH3 Energy+ Topical Conference at Pittsburgh in October 2018. The transition from current to future applications is also a huge challenge for ammonia. In January 2019, MAN Energy announced it was developing an ammonia-fueled engine.

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Ohio State named first-year champion in 4-year EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

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Teams have four years (2018-2022) to transform their vehicles from design concept into reality, building an energy efficient, connected and semi-automated vehicle for the car sharing market. Throughout the year, the students strived to conceptualize and build the framework for their redesigned Chevrolet Blazers.

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BMW orders two more ENGEL moulding machines for body shell components for i3 EV

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During the company’s Annual Accounts Press Conference, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer said the automaker will ramp up production of its lightweight i models by 2018, then by 2020 would be build them “ in a six digits figure to comply with stricter emission rules. ”.

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