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Roskill: Niobium industry looking for a future beyond steel; Li-ion batteries a possibility

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CAGR between 2010 and 2019, accelerating since 2016, according to Roskill Information Services. However, the spike in vanadium prices (ferrovanadium prices increased by about 200% in 2018) caused Chinese mills to substitute niobium to vanadium and Chinese niobium imports increased 30% year-on-year both in 2018 and 2019. Griffith et al.

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Midwest EVOLVE electric vehicle project hosts first EV ride and drive at Earth Day event in Ohio

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This year, in partnership with Mayor Frank Jackson’s Sustainable Cleveland 2019 initiative, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, and Midwest EVOLVE, EarthFest will celebrate the “Year of Vibrant Green Space.”. The partners support the project through donations, vehicles for test drives, and in-kind support.

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Plug’n Drive launches $1,000 incentive to scrap a gas car PLUS $1,000 towards a Used EV

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The Scrappage Incentive is in addition to the Used EV Incentive program that launched in April 2019, which provides $1,000 off the purchase of a used fully electric or plug-in hybrid electric car. This program is being offered to encourage drivers to make the switch to low carbon transportation and reduce air pollution.

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If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu

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Electric Auto Association (EAA) chapter leaders from all over the country attended a recent training seminar to learn how to support EV legislation at the state and local level. Other content includes: The final report from a stakeholders meeting before legislation passed in Virginia in 2019 to study EV incentives.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He also served as the 2018–2019 chair of the IEEE Technical Activities Board periodicals committee. Meydan served as chair of the 2003 Seminar on Sensors and Actuators, held by the IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section ’s chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society. He helped found the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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He cooperated with and even shared laboratory space with other KAIST professors, and he liked to visit other departments and universities to give seminars or simply to gain new ideas and perspectives—behavior that was, and still is, very unusual in South Korean academic culture. Legend and Legacy. The future of South Korea depends on it.

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

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Arm is the dominant architecture in China, so RISC-V is a long-term bet to insure Beijing against a scenario in which Arm is forced to not just halt licensing to Huawei, as it did temporarily in 2019, but to all Chinese companies. Reuters reported in October that some U.S.

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