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BMW Motorrad showcases E-scooter

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At BMW Motorrad Innovation Day 2011, BMW highlighted its latest concept electric-drive E-Scooter. BMW Motorrad earlier developed an electric study vehicle, the C1-E, as a contribution to the European safety project eSUM. Unlike existing maxi scooters with combustion engines, the concept vehicle does not have a main frame.

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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NREL working with industrial partners (Genomatica and DeNora) will develop a biorefining concept that uses electrochemically generated formate as a universal energy carrier to facilitate a carbon optimized sugar assimilation fermentation to synthesize fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) without release of CO 2. INvizyne Technologies, Inc.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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This is the moment that the concept of electronic paper, or e-paper, went mainstream. The processes it used had to be converted to operate in a different, production-ready machine. After all, black-and-white e-paper took only 10 years from concept to commercialization. The road to full color turned out to be much longer.

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GM provides technical details of the Gen 2 Voltec propulsion system used in the 2016 Volt

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Clutches are OWC1, C1 and B1. The piston bowl was developed to enable spray-guided direct injection to improve combustion system performance and robustness for catalytic converter light-off. About half of these were chosen for energy modeling in both EV and extended range operation, using a simulation tool developed by GMR&D.

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