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MINI partners with HAX to launch startup accelerator program

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Additional Legal, Human Resources, Marketing/Communications and Accounting support will be available through an established network of program partners. Urban-X will run from an office and meeting space in New York with access to workshops and professional facilities.

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

Cars That Think

It can take up to 15 years to get a new drug through the regulatory-approval process before it becomes available to patients. Algorithms, open-source documents, and workshops The consortium is developing several work products. The consortium is planning to hold a workshop this year to educate others about its efforts.

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Tesla formally wins final environmental approval to open Gigafactory Berlin

Teslarati

The facility also includes battery cell production, an operational wastewater treatment plant, a fire brigade equipment house, a high-bay warehouse, as well as laboratories and workshops,” the press release read. .

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Continental focusing on automated driving as key long-term technology strategy; receives approval to test automated vehicles on Nevada roads

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Vehicle automation is set to be rolled out in stages, starting with partially automated driving from 2016; high levels of automation from 2020; and fully automated systems available from 2025. When fully automated systems become available in 2025, they will still be limited to driving on the freeway. Click to enlarge.

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ICCT study concludes no technical barriers to use of higher blends of ethanol

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The consumption scenarios are technically achievable but do not reflect significant barriers such as cost, regulation, legality, and consumer acceptance. Two scenarios of US ethanol consumption and projections of original, revised, and repealed RFS2 requirements from the present to 2022. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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EV conversion business profile: British Off Road, QLD

EV Central

Its expansive yard and sheds heave with body shells and parts dating back to the 1950s, but in one of the workshops there are significantly more modern happenings. They’re super reliable, quite reasonably priced and the availability is relatively good. EV conversion specialist British Off Road’s electric VW Kombi.

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Greenius Weekend Update

Creative Greenius

Or maybe they were working on their legal case against the solar installer who has been stopped by city from PV panels on a home here in my Hollywood Riviera neighborhood for what can only be called ANTI-environmental reasons. There’s an even better reason to come than seeing me and that’s to hear from Howard Choy of L.A.

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