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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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Boeing and start-up Kitty Hawk Corporation have entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint. Kitty Hawk Corp.,

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Fusion energy company TAE Technologies launches power management subsidiary TAE Power Solutions

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The combined workforce of more than 250 professionals, headquartered in California, brings deep domain expertise and long-standing OEM relationships, positioning TAE Power Solutions to become a market leader in emerging power management technologies. Background. The path to Power Solutions began with TAE solving a power problem for fusion.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. in Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.S.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

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The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of more than $15 million to projects that will advance biofuels and electric vehicle research in California. based in Valencia (Los Angeles County), will administer the project, and ZeroTruck of Laguna Niguel (Orange County) will build up to 14 trucks for the project.

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EVTOL Companies Are Worth Billions—Who Are the Key Players?

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And, surprisingly for such a large movement, the funding is mostly coming from sources outside of the traditional venture-capital community—rich investors and multinational corporations. The challenge is to be able to build at that rate, to have a supply chain that can supply you with the components you need to build at that rate.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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“The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I

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

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Vitriflex Inc.,