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Aura System’s Generator Incorporated into Azure’s Balance Hybrid for USPS

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Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated Aura Systems ’s AuraGen motor/generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle delivered to the United States Postal Service fleet (USPS). Aura Systems. The original founders left in 2002 and from 2002 to 2005, Aura had a number of new management teams. The AuraGen.

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NASA adds 14 new partners to Advanced Air Mobility project’s National Campaign; urban air mobility

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The following industry partners were chosen: Flight partners for demonstrations: Reliable Robotics Corporation and continued work with Wisk Aero LLC and Joby Aviation. Infrastructure partners for demonstrations: AURA Network Systems, Raytheon Company, Robust Analytics Inc., SkyGrid, and The University of North Texas.

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Mainline testing of UK’s first hydrogen train HydroFLEX gets green light

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Porterbrook Leasing Company Limited is a leading participant in the rail leasing market and has a rolling stock fleet with over 4,000 vehicles on lease or on order, which includes around 4,200 passenger vehicles.

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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 reaches orbit

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The OCO-2 spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation on an elongated variant of Orbital’s LEOStar-2 science satellite platform. A 35 Ah nickel-hydrogen battery will provide power when the sun is eclipsed from the spacecraft. GCOM-W1, Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat, and Aura are currently on orbit.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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Going forward, GM plans to spend proportionally less of its marketing budget on the corporate identity and more on the vehicle brands. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Establishing four core brands. GM’s identify in the US starts with its four core brands. Earlier post.).

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. The Aurora 100 is now used by corporations to develop in­ house training films and presentation graphics. and Toronto, Ont., Poor Adele,” Tesler said.

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