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DECEMBER 2, 2015

In remarks to the Economic Club in Ottawa, GM Canada president and managing director Steve Carlisle confirmed that its Canadian Engineering Center in Oshawa, Ontario, has been awarded a mandate to play a leading role in the build of autonomous driving vehicles.

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JULY 11, 2021

An international group of experts led by WMG, University of Warwick working together as a part of an ISO technical committee, has published the first international (ISO) safety standard for Level 4 automated driving systems, taking them a step further towards being more widely available.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

A comprehensive environmental field study to gather information on air contaminants in the Wood Buffalo region in northeast Alberta, Canada (home to major oil sands projects) will occur from 12 August to mid-September 2013. Earlier post.).

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JULY 25, 2012

General Motors of Canada is making investments totaling $850 million in R&D in light-weighting materials, mechatronics, software and communications. General Motors of Canada has made great strides since 2009 when our Government pledged its support to help it restructure. —Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Researchers from the University of Waterloo Center for Automotive Research (WatCAR) in Canada are modifying a Lincoln MKZ Hybrid to autonomous drive-by-wire operation. Ontario is the first province in Canada to create a pilot program to test automated vehicles on its roads. Picture: WatCAR. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

million partnership with McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with funding support from the Canadian government, to develop next-generation, energy-efficient, high-performance electrified powertrains and powertrain components. Electric Mobility Canada, the Canadian Automotive Association and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation.

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JULY 28, 2023

and Canada are targeted for Ultra Cruise compatibility when it debuts on the Cadillac CELESTIQ, coming as soon as 2024.& Ultra Cruise will remain what the industry deems a Level Two of vehicle autonomy since the driver is still in control, but over two million miles of roadway between the U.S.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

can vary by country and region, and different parts of the world were impacted by air pollution in different ways. The study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St. According to HEI’s State of Global Air , PM 2.5 The new report noted that major sources of PM 2.5 in African countries.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. Partners: Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. This includes C$6.5

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

General Motors announced a new community charging program to install up to 40,000 Level 2 EV chargers across the US and Canada. This initiative, which begins in 2022, is part of GM’s recently announced commitment to invest nearly $750 million to expand home, workplace and public charging infrastructure through its Ultium Charge 360 ecosystem.

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MAY 24, 2013

Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the all-fuel, external combustion Cyclone Engine, and McGill University of Québec, Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop alternative solid fuel combustion systems for micro-sized power units.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says.

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JULY 21, 2011

The Alcoa Foundation recently awarded a $400,000 grant to the Ohio State University (OSU) Institute for Materials Research in support of innovative design and manufacturing technologies that will enable the creation of lighter, more environmentally friendly vehicle structures.

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MARCH 29, 2022

While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. David John Kemp 1998 president of IEEE Canada Life senior member, 78; died 5 January.

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MAY 20, 2022

Vancouver, Canada. A new study , commissioned by the International Chamber of Shipping and prepared by Professor Dr. Stefan Ulreich from Germany’s University of Applied Sciences, finds that the global shipping industry will require the equivalent of the world’s entire current renewable energy demand in order to replace fossil fuel use.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The project team, led by Lesley Warren, a professor in the School of Geography & Earth Sciences, was recruited by Syncrude Canada Ltd. Researchers at McMaster have received nearly C$2.2 million (US 2.25 million) to examine environmental processes in Alberta’ oil sands which could help speed up the land reclamation process for Syncrude.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd.,

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In an announcement on Wednesday, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia stated that it would be recruiting Tesla owners across the globe to analyze if the all-electric vehicles’ spare battery capacity could be utilized to support the energy grid — and perhaps even power homes in the near future.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)- ENGAGE grant with Dr. Heather Andreas , an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University. Nova Scotia-based Elcora Advanced Materials Corp. Elcora processes, refines, and produces both graphite & graphene.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

His previous work, “Steve Jobs,” was adapted into a 2015 Universal film that featured Michael Fassbender as the Apple CEO. Considering the scope of Isaacson’s Musk biography , it would be quite interesting to see what parts of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s life will be adapted in the upcoming movie.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The interdisciplinary team, which also includes researchers from the National Research Council of Canada and The University of Manchester, plans to publish its results in academic journals towards the end of next year and in 2023.

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MARCH 19, 2021

SAF is a vital part of Airbus’ ambition to decarbonize the aviation industry and we are working closely with a number of partners to ensure a sustainable future for air travel.

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JULY 14, 2022

Canada, in 2018. Today, Open Ocean has more than two dozen full-time employees, plus contractors and part-time staff, bringing the total to just over 30. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from McMaster University , in Hamilton, Ont., The company began in the Anguses’ garage on Vancouver Island, B.C.,

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JULY 30, 2017

A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Barron reported their find in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Barron is the Charles W.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The production of aluminium, copper and high-grade iron ore will play a part in the transition to a low carbon economy. In 2018, Rio Tinto announced a new technology partnership with Alcoa, with support from Apple and the governments of Canada and Quebec, to further develop ELYSIS carbon-free aluminium smelting technology.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

This tech, developed by researchers at the University of Arizona , features long-range, low-power data transmission and receiving as well as wireless power charging. Gutruf is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the university. There is no large rigid island in this device.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. —Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball. 1905232116.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Pond has developed a universal algae platform that provides optimal growth conditions for virtually any algae strain. The process being deployed by CNRC experts and its partners is designed to rapidly recycle carbon dioxide and other airborne industrial emissions into biomass through photosynthesis.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Port of Frederikshavn, Steeper Energy and Aalborg University are partnering to establish a biomass biorefinery in Denmark to produce a sustainable drop-in sulfur-free marine fuel that will serve more than 100,000 vessels passing through the port annually.

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MAY 16, 2016

Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion), The actions expected to cause the largest emissions cuts by 2020 are moving buildings and the electricity system off natural gas (three million tonnes); programs to make industry more energy efficient (2.5

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APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The Waterloo Global Science Initiative ( WGSI )—a non-profit partnership between Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Waterloo—has released the Equinox Blueprint: Energy 2030. The Equinox Blueprint is a report from the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 held in June 2011 in Canada.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III invented the digital microprocessor-based relay as part of his doctoral thesis. Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Northeast and Ontario, Canada,” he recalls. “It I was hooked. “I

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AUGUST 15, 2023

These simulated body parts were the latest showings from the MyoSuite platform, and were included in the MyoSuite 2.0 collection, which was released today by Meta AI , working in collaboration with researchers at McGill University in Canada, Northeastern University in the United States, and the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

Cars got heavy because part of the world got rich and drivers got coddled. Of course, you can get quite spectacular ratios by pairing the right car with the right driver. I regularly see a woman driving a Hummer 2 that easily weighs 50 times as much as she does. That’s like going after a fly with a steam shovel.

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This month, there are 180 events registered across the US and 2 in Canada (including one online webinar about things to consider when purchasing an EV ). April 6, with the first part from 8am-9:30am, second part from 10am-11:30am, and third part from 12pm to 2pm. April 14, 12pm-2pm.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The University of Michigan will receive a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to support U-M’s Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation ( SMART ) project. The grant will be used to develop and apply practical solutions to the challenges of sustainable transportation in the Detroit and Beijing regions.

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