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OXIS Energy to build Li-S manufacturing plant in Brazil

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OXIS Energy and the Minas Gerais Development Company CODEMGE have signed a 15-year lease agreement with Mercedes Benz Brazil (MBB) to take possession of a plant located at the MBB manufacturing site in Juiz de Fora in southeast Brazil to build a Li-sulfur battery manufacturing operation. Earlier post.).

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Welcome to Fusion City, USA

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If you squint hard enough, building a fusion system is not that different from building an airplane,” he tells Spectrum on a visit in June. “It The unglamorous location is no accident, says Derek Sutherland , Zap’s senior research scientist. “If While the location of that has yet to determined, it’s likely to remain in the state.

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Virtual IEEE-USA Conference Focuses on Tips for How to Enhance Your Career

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Registration is now open for EVO 2.0 , IEEE-USA 's third and final virtual event of the year, taking place on 3 November. John Yaglenski , IEEE-USA's director of communications and IT, is set to host the chat with Bradford. PAST EVENTS The first IEEE-USA EVO virtual event, EVO 1.0 , focused on career development and technology trends.

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DOE awarding $71M to 20 RD&D projects to cut GHG emissions, expand EV infrastructure; $5M to Achates for opposed-piston 2-stroke hybrid

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Tennessee Technological University. Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. Charge to Work USA: National Workplace Charging Program. North Carolina State University. Marquette University. University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

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BAIC BJEV in strategic cooperation with Dresden University of Technology for lightweighting technology

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BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., The Sino-German Light Weighting R&D Center will become the company’s fifth overseas R&D center. Earlier post.).

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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. SABIC Innovative Plastics US; SAERTEX USA, LLC; Strongwell Inc.; SABIC Innovative Plastics US; SAERTEX USA, LLC; Strongwell Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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BMW’s software development department was established in 2002 and is now located in Mountain View (USA), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Munich and Ulm (Germany), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing (China), with more than 8,000 software specialists worldwide.

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