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Finland’s oldest ferry goes all electric with Visedo

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The Föri initially entered service in 1904, after the City of Turku commissioned local shipyards Aktiebolaget Vulcan to build a city commuter ferry to take passengers across the Aura River to Åbo. This also allows future motor maintenance in shifts, with no interruption to operation.

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

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As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. But if several Altos are linked, along with file servers and printers, the result looks suspiciously like the office of the future. This is perhaps ironic, since one vision of the office of the future was that it would be paperless. “I Mountain View, Calif.—began

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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Eliza Strickland: Hi, I’m Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Josh, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. And so we use copper to move electric power around the vehicle, to move electric power around the energy system in the transmission grid. What’s the end game there?

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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And at this writing, the issue of Opel’s future ownership has yet to be settled.] Henderson goes on to say “ We (GM) have never missed a fuel economy standard and don’t intend to miss one in the future. ”. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Focus on fuel economy.

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