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Self-Driving Microscopes to Navigate the Nanoscale

Cars That Think

They basically discard most of the information, because there is just no way to actually extract all the features of interest from the data." Such a machine will 'understand' what it is looking at and automatically document features of interest," an article in the Materials Research Society Bulletin declares.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. From the article: “The goal is to make it easier for consumers and communities to get started with E.V.’s. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. By Jim Motavalli for the New York Times.

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What Is Acoustic Vehicle Warning System & Its Importance on The Roads?

Get Electric Vehicle

The purpose of an AVAS system for electric vehicles is to inform pedestrians, cyclists, and/or adjacent persons who use personal mobility vehicles, particularly blind or visually impaired people who require a sound stimulus to recognise and understand a vehicle is nearby. Why Should Electric Vehicles Be Noisy?

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How NI plans to innovate in the EV test and measurement industry and unlock the power of data

Charged EVs

For example, very high-voltage stimulus and measurement—those products have been around for decades in other smaller industries, like the electric grid or certain aerospace testing applications. But then that technology intersected with a much bigger and rapidly moving industry in automotive.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

This Christian Science Monitor article takes an in-depth look at an age. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Quote from the article: “Investors, too, are excited. Here is the full text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. percent of $1.9

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

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As Albert Mudry and Mara Mills documented in their 2013 retrospective article “ The Early History of the Cochlear Implant ,” electrical stimulation of the ear dates to at least 1748, when Benjamin Wilson stimulated the scalp of a deaf woman with electricity. Even failure informed their work.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

In an article “Falling thirst for Fuel Leaves Ethanol Enthusiasts with a Hangover” published on 4 May 2009, The Wall Street Journal summarized three of the challenges traditional corn ethanol faces today. We provided a show-and-tell information discovery excursion. The ethanol market.