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MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

Cars That Think

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Kevin Lynch, editor-in-chief, IEEE Transactions on Robotics Robots rely on simultaneous localization and mapping to understand where they are in unknown environments. Does your robot know where it is right now? Are you sure ?

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Study Finds Global CO2 Emissions Dropped 1.3% in 2009; Emissions in China and India Rose 9% and 6%

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This is not unexpected ”, said Gunnar Myhre, senior research fellow at CICERO and one of the scientists behind the article. Although the stimulus package from the Chinese government in 2008 was said to have a green focus, even construction of windmills is a relatively emission intensive activity, at least in the short run Peters said.

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China EV industry sell-off creates opportunity, says Morgan Stanley

CN EV Post

That, combined with weak full-year sales following the stimulus withdrawal, could dampen sales volumes and margins for EV brands in the first half of 2023, the team said. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Worldwatch Institute report finds global energy intensity increased in 2010 for second year in a row

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Global energy intensity—defined as total energy consumption divided by gross world product—increased 1.35% in 2010, the second year of increases in the context of a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article from the Worldwatch Institute.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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Towards this goal, we present for the first time in this article a membrane that can regulate transmembrane ion transport as a function of its redox state. Travis Herya and Vishnu-Baba Sundaresan (2016) “Ionic redox transistor from pore-spanning PPy(DBS) membranes” Energy Environ. — Herya and Sundaresan.

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This is How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect The Global EV Market

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Many municipal and federal governments, for example, have expanded consumer benefits for EV sales, mostly as part of stimulus efforts aimed at mitigating the pandemic’s economic effect. Nurturing environment and related infrastructure.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. by Lars Vercelli.