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VinFast to build EV and battery factory in North Carolina

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VinFast has established global operations in the US, Canada, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Last November, VinFast announced the VF 8 and VF 9 (previously introduced as VF e35 and VF e36) at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show. The facility is expected to be fully installed and running at full capacity from late 2022.

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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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In an accompanying editorial in The Lancet , Dr. Bert Brunekreef, a professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and Dr. Barbara Hoffmann, a professor of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, described the study as “ exemplary.” The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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Heterostructures describe the interfaces between two semiconductors that serve as the building blocks between more elaborate nanostructures. In 1957, he returned to Germany to research potential uses of gallium arsenide at Phillips Research Laboratory , in Hamburg. where he invented the double heterostructure laser. Vladimir G.

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Porsche introduces Wet Mode for 911 for high driving stability even in the rain

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The torque build-up of the engine is smoother, and the shift strategy of the new eight-speed PDK transmission is automatically adapted to this. The eighth generation of the new 911 was presented in Los Angeles at the end of November 2018. This corresponds to an increase of 22 kW (30 PS) compared with the previous model.

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Bosch developing sensor box for air taxis using production-tested components from automotive

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Test flights of electric air taxis are scheduled to begin in cities such as Dubai, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Singapore in 2020. trillion) by 2040, extending beyond the United States and southeast Asia to include large and medium-sized cities in Germany as well. Experts expect commercial operations to begin in 2023.

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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. Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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.

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Video Friday: BRUCE

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Our VoloDrone team clearly got the holiday feels in snowy Germany while sling load testing cargo – definitely a new way of disposing of a Christmas tree before the New Year. MRS CTU ] GITAI has a fancy new office in Los Angeles that they’re filling with space robots. The solution: they carry the tree by working together!