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New 4-cylinder 2.3L EcoBoost on Lincoln MKC small SUV; future EcoBoost prospects

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MKC will be the first Lincoln to have always-on built-in connectivity, allowing owners to utilize a smartphone app to control the vehicle. Production of the all-new 2015 Lincoln MKC will begin in the second quarter of 2014 at the Louisville Assembly Plant in Louisville, Ky. Advanced cooling and aftertreatment systems.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Louisville, Colo. Pipersville, Pa.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., teams beefed up their communications with everything from a straightforward tethered Ethernet cable to battery-powered mesh network nodes that robots would drop like breadcrumbs as they went along, ideally just before they passed out of communication range. The caverns are dark. They’re dusty.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. A 350 kW charging system could charge a 200-mile range battery in less than 10 minutes.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – [Online Event] IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 20-21, 2021 – [Online Event] Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. ElliQ ].

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – [Online Event] IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 20-21, 2021 – [Online Event] Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. ElliQ ].