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DuPont Industrial Biosciences awarded grant for high-efficiency biogas enzyme production

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DuPont Industrial Biosciences has been awarded a grant from the European Commission to demonstrate high-efficiency enzyme production to increase biogas yields as part of the DEMETER project, funded from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program.

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Continental launches series production of technologies for robo-taxis

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Continental’s braking portfolio includes suitable technologies for robo-taxis, such as the MK C1 one-box brake system. Together, these systems form the production-ready MK C1 HAD brake system for highly automated driving and driverless mobility applications. The pilot will begin in late August and last up to six months.

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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

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The batteries supplied by Exide as part of the C3 Project performed well under the HEV screening test, especially at high temperatures. Ah (at a C1 rate) after 51,000 miles driven, which is a very minimal capacity loss when comparing an average 7.55 The battery capacity was 7.54 Ah for the new modules.

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