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Use of a Low-Cost Electric Supercharger Could Significantly Reduce Smoke from Turbocharged Diesel Engines

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Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) is a UK startup working with switched reluctance motor technology to deliver cost-effective CO 2 -reducing solutions for vehicles. Fully integrated VTES unit. Click to enlarge.

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Controlled Power Technologies and Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium to unveil LC Super Hybrid at Geneva show; low-cost “micro-mild” demonstrator

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The low voltage (12V) “micro-mild” technology demonstrator includes a production-ready electric supercharger recently sold by CPT to the leading French tier 1 supplier Valeo ( earlier post ). CPT SpeedStart stop-start technology.

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HiPoSwitch focusing on novel gallium nitride-based transistors for more efficient power electronics

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KG, EpiGaN, Infineon Technologies Austria AG). In the long run, they will combine significantly improved technical properties with comparably low costs. Infineon Technologies Austria AG evaluates the developed transistor concepts and the GaN-on-Si wafers from EpiGaN in their process line.

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First videos of The Boring Company’s working LVCC Loop in action emerge

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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is now complete, and the first batch of videos of the low-cost underground transport system in action have been shared online. The LVCC Loop cost about $52.5 million to complete, making it relatively affordable.

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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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The other company was Austria-based Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, which proposed a traditional above-ground campus transit system estimated to cost $215 million to complete. Machines such as Prufrock, and the incredibly low cost of its tunnels, are The Boring Company’s true disruption. .

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Natural graphite often provides a low-cost option, despite the extensive processing needed to transform mined product into the high carbon, low impurity, technical grades required for lithium-ion batteries. Other projects are also planned in Austria, Canada, India, Russia and the US.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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The US$30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop lowcost methods of robotic space exploration. The majority of the roughly 35 current engineers on the team come from Germany and Austria. Click to enlarge.

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