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Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

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On 1 September 2017, new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles come into force in the EU and Switzerland. Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research for Industry, Construction and Commerce, recommends buying diesel vehicles only if they have been approved in accordance with Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d.

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ABB brings TOSA e-bus and flash charging to Davos; first use in Alpine region

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The award-winning TOSA e-bus, developed by ABB in Switzerland, is already in use in Geneva and will soon be implemented in the French city of Nantes. As well as being ecologically responsible, they’re becoming less expensive to buy and maintain. It can flash charge its battery in just 20 seconds as passengers board and disembark.

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E-Motor Enables Chain-Free Bike-by-Wire

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No wonder industrial designers and engineers have toiled for years on the concept: it's a hard thing to beat pedal-turns-sprocket. Schaeffler's pedal-powered generator enables new, chainless e-bike designs Schaeffler Schaeffler is an auto parts and industrial manufacturer which made its name as a ball-bearing and clutch maker.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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And actually, the trigger was when Google announced the self-driving car project , and then for me and many researchers, it was clear that actually many things were now transitioning from academia to industry, and so we had to come up with new ideas and things. In the industrial world, it’s entirely different. But they were quite good.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. defense industry. But the automotive industry clearly represented the biggest potential market.

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Lamborghini Breaks Historic Sales Record

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While companies building fewer than 10,000 vehicles annually weren’t subject to the same emissions standards as the big boys, they’re still supposed to prepare for electrification if they want to continue doing business in Europe.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It is—as with a few things Tesla—it provided the model for what the rest of the industry is now trying to do. car market.