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JANUARY 10, 2024

Here's your change with this 2018 Subaru Crosstrek. It has a rally build, courtesy of performance shop Rocket Rally. It's a full build from a stripped chassis. There's a turbo engine, front-mounted intercooler, custom radiator, racing suspension, and all the other parts and bits you need to go racing.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Ltd (BJEV)—a subsidiary of the BAIC Group for electric cars—for the engineering and complete vehicle manufacturing of electric vehicles. The Zhenjiang facility where Magna and BJEV plan to engineer and build electric vehicles for the Chinese market. The plant has the capacity to build up to 180,000 vehicles per year.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The facility will build on more than a decade of advanced battery development at GM Research and Development. The facility is expected to build its first prototype cells in the fourth quarter of 2022. Despite fighting terminal cancer, Wallace continued to lead and inspire his team, working until his death in 2018.

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MAY 24, 2019

BASF plans to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) plant at the company’s proposed integrated chemical production (“Verbund”) site in Zhanjiang, China. These will be the first production plants to come onstream at the site.

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JULY 12, 2023

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia as part of a A$111.1-million Converting the entire plant to green hydrogen could reduce emissions by 500,000 tonnes per year—the equivalent of taking about 109,000 internal combustion engine cars off the road. million (US$74.3-million)

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APRIL 4, 2024

The IEEE Jamaica Section is acting as a catalyst to engage and inspire the island nation’s next generation of engineering and technology professionals. Participants explored engineering and technology careers, academic pathways, and how IEEE can support them at different stages of their journey.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

In October 2020, the China Society of Automotive Engineers released a technology roadmap, under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The roadmap reflects China’s ambition to foster a hydrogen economy; the country aims to have 1 million FCEVs on its roads by 2035, with an emphasis on commercial vehicles.

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MAY 31, 2017

The 2018 Toyota Camry will be the first Toyota vehicle on the market with the AGL-based system in the United States. AGL is an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation that is changing the way automotive manufacturers build software. —Dan Cauchy, Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux.

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APRIL 13, 2022

The race to build the metaverse is on—but first, developers need the tools to do it. Unreal Engine 5 , released on April 5, is among the leaders. Its creator, Epic Games, is best known for its megahit game Fortnite , but the company’s engine expertise has deep roots. An explainer on Nanite | Unreal Engine 5.

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MAY 29, 2020

WinGD (Winterthur Gas & Diesel) has received type approval for the biggest and most powerful LNG-fueled engines yet built. The certification process of WinGD’s 12X92DF engine was a long process due to the size and complexity of the engine. WinGD has received 320 orders for X-DF engines including 60 in operation.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Sharma, a semiconductor engineer, was instrumental in organizing the meeting for the Tokyo-based company. Building a thriving semiconductor industry At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX’s South Texas Starship aims to build up to five of the two-stage megarockets in 2023. SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas hardware endeavors began in an empty field in late 2018, kicking off Starhopper testing in 2019. About five full stacks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 14, 2023.

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MAY 21, 2020

A consortium of leading global companies and top institutions have joined with SGH2 and the City of Lancaster to develop and implement the Lancaster project, including: Fluor, Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, Thermosolv, Integrity Engineers, Millenium, HyetHydrogen, and Hexagon. Now, most of these materials are stored or sent back to landfills.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Our relationship with Bosch also gives us access to their experienced engineering team which is one of the largest and most respected in the world. Nikola plans to announce a secondary stack supplier in 2018 that will act as a backup and overflow for any testing issues or production bottlenecks.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Yuzhang Li is an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Awards received include the 2018 ECS San Francisco Section Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award and 2017 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. Both partners will together invest around €650 million (more than five billion CNY).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the company’s 2017 and 2018 vessel fleet visits to the Port of Oakland. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K. The original At-Berth Regulation, adopted in 2007, requires vessel fleets to reduce their diesel engine power generation while docked.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. It was established to build a high-performance, low-volume, flexible battery capability in the UK.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

liter V8 engine for automobiles that is fueled entirely by hydrogen. In Japan, Toyota and other automotive-related companies are about to begin a collaborative effort to expand the range of fuel options for internal combustion engines. November 2021 hydrogen engine prototype. —Yamaha Motor president Yoshihiro Hidaka.

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APRIL 10, 2017

In 2015, Toyota announced it was investing $1 billion in a new TNGA plant in Guanajuato, Mexico—the first designed from the ground up with TNGA production engineering technologies. TNGA represents a completely new strategy for the way the company designs, engineers, and manufactures its vehicles. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 28, 2012

The Volkswagen Group is expanding its capacities in Russia with the construction of a new engine plant in Kaluga, Russia. liter gasoline engine from the EA 211 series will be produced locally as of 2015. The capacity is set at 150,000 engines a year. By 2018 we intend to sell a half a million vehicles here annually.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Volkswagen Group’s software company Car.Software Organization will collaborate with Microsoft to build a cloud-based Automated Driving Platform on Microsoft Azure and tp leverage its compute and data capabilities with the goal of delivering reliable and safe automated driving (AD) experiences even faster and on a global scale.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

a leading industrial gas and engineering company, in an exclusive, one-time pilot, importing five Volvo FH LNG (liquified natural gas) powered trucks to Canada. Volvo Trucks first launched the LNG product offering in 2017 with serial production beginning in 2018 for the European markets.

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JULY 2, 2018

The Swiss company ecovolta is building a fully automated Li-Ion battery pack assembly plant in Schwyz with an annual capacity of 200 MWh. This will make it one of the largest such plants in Europe after its launch in September 2018. Torques, load curves and current peaks can then be measured on the engine test bench.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Aluminum automotive sheet deliveries will show spectacular gains through 2018, the WSD report says. billion pounds in 2018 from 504 million pounds in 2014—for a growth rate of 51% per year compounded. From 2018 to 2021: 11.4%, or 166 pounds. These vehicles are higher cost to build. —“AutoBody Warfare”.

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JULY 14, 2022

This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The IEEE member also belongs to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The company designs and builds the drone’s hull, deck, and circuit boards. Canada, in 2018. Data Xplorer.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From 2022, new homes and buildings, such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well as buildings undergoing major renovations, will be required to install electric power under new legislation announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 22 November Car charging pile. in all of 2018 and 10% in 2020. “As part of the mission.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The US Department of Energy announced $98 million in funding for 40 new projects as part of OPEN 2018, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) latest open funding opportunity. OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission.

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MAY 23, 2020

Two pre-series trains of Alstom’s Coradia iLint model have been in passenger service since September 2018. The gases and engineering company Linde will build and operate a hydrogen filling station for the series trains near Bremervoerde station. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Honda also used the venue to announce that it will offer several next-generation, advanced powertrain vehicles, including a new battery-electric model and plug-in hybrid model by 2018. Honda also announced plans to introduce new VTEC Turbo engines to be built in Ohio and debut later in 2015. New VTEC Turbo Engines. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Volvo Cars will introduce a front-wheel drive (FWD), 3-cylinder engine variant of its Twin Engine plug-in hybrid electric vehicle system in 2018, followed by its first production battery-electric vehicles and a new 48V mild hybrid system in 2019, according to Mats Anderson, Senior Director of Electric Propulsion Systems.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In its third-quarter 2017 financial results update, Tesla Motors reported that it is delaying its expected start of volume production—defined here as 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week—to “late Q1 2018”. The company was earlier targeting that milestone for “some time in 2017”. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jiangnan Shipyard, owned by China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), has ordered an LPG (liquefied propane gas)-burning MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP engine in connection with the building of an 86,000-m 3 VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier) for Tianjin Southwest Maritime (TSM), the Chinese shipping company. LGIP engine. LGIP research engine.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

The use of renewable fuel is another important building block and a very important addition to our concept for climate-friendly mobility. This means that it is a drop-in replacement for fossil diesel, fully compatible with all diesel engines and current diesel fuel distribution infrastructure.

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APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The 32-acre company-owned site will house all corporate functions, an engineering center, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.

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