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BrightDrop enters grocery industry with ecart for optimized online order fulfillment and pickup

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These insights led to the development, testing, refinement and now commercialization of the Trace Grocery, BrightDrop’s first product purpose-built for online grocery and retail order fulfillment. Flexibility to easily maneuver inside and outside of a grocer’s store to help reduce costly staging and infrastructure requirements.

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Altair ProductDesign selects Parker Hannifins series hydraulic hybrid drive system for advanced transit bus demonstrator

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Instead of solely using power from the engine, accumulated energy from the vehicle’s braking system is stored and used to power the vehicle each time it accelerates. An onboard controller coordinates pumps, hydrostatic motors and accumulators to power the vehicle when in hydrostatic mode during start-and-stop operation.

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IBM releases fifth annual Next Five in Five list of near-term significant innovations; personalized routing for commuting/transportation makes the cut

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Scientists from IBM Research - China and other experts across IBM are developing new insights into traffic and predictions that will serve as the foundation for new transportation services to deal with this complex environment. In some cases, batteries may disappear altogether in smaller devices.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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Heat-Pipe PCM Based Cool Storage for Air-Cooled Systems The project team will develop a novel storage system that collects and stores heat rejected from a power plant condenser during the day until the heat waste can be more efficiently rejected during the night at lower ambient temperatures. TDA Research. ALPHA AWARDS. Lead organization.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor. Mike, Epworth, UK Ok.