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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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Water and oxygen are the only by-products. TFSI in the five-door model can burn natural gas, biomethane and Audi e-gas; with its bivalent design it can also use gasoline. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

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How Lindstrom is making EV cell manufacturing safer via its workwear | Autocar Professional

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PCBs (printed circuit boards) are designed to handle microamps of current, which in common parlance are tiny in amount. These garments are designed differently for the paint shop than the body shop, considering factors like static charge protection, durability, and fire retardant properties.

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Volkswagen Group to invest more than €9.8 billion in China by 2015; efficient products and production

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The seven new plants will set new standards for sustainable automobile production. The new paint shops which are planned alone will use 70% less energy and 90% less water as a result of the introduction of highly innovative dry paint mist separation processes.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Population Growth: The world population is expected to grow to 8.4

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Series production of next-generation Acura NSX hybrid supercar begins in April at new Performance Manufacturing Center

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The PMC is constructing the Acura supercar entirely in-house and, like the NSX itself, is a clean-sheet development—a manufacturing facility designed around the NSX’s unique Multi-Material Body and aluminum-intensive space-frame design and optimized for low-volume production of high-performance specialty vehicles. the NSX’s 3.5-liter

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ColognE-Mobil 2-Year EV Field Trial to Launch in January; 25 Ford BEVs

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Dr. Renatus Widmann / Dr. Thorsten Mietzel, Urban Water and Waste Management. Alexander Schmidt, city planning and urban design. Jürgen Ziegler, Interactive Systems / Interaction Design. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, general business and automotive industry I; Prof. Electric Mobility Project Management.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

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In other words, the designers reduced the barriers and the cost necessary for other players to develop VCS game cartridges. More than 200 such games have since been developed for the VCS—helping to spawn the sprawling, US$170 billion global video games industry today. And that was exactly what happened. Watson Jr. ,

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