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Camber Ridge opening $60M tire testing facility with 0.5-mile oval indoor track

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The facility aims to offer all the advantages of testing real tires on real surfaces, but with the precision, environmental control and repeatability of a laboratory environment. The new facility is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the midst of the region’s growing automotive research and manufacturing cluster.

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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

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The bags, which come in various forms and sizes, have so much more about them than being just a bag - they are helping our environment, helping refugees and stand for every person who has had to leave their home behind and take an unimaginably terrifying journey to foreign land. Written by Charlotte Dautzenberg

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SLAC, Stanford team develops new catalyst for water-splitting for renewable fuels production; 100x more efficient than other acid-stable catalysts

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New OER catalysts for use in acidic environments could have a direct impact on improving polymer electrolyte membrane–based water electrolyzers, a recent technology that overcomes many of the disadvantages of conventional alkaline electrolyzers but in which OER catalysts are primarily restricted to IrO x. —Thomas Jaramillo.

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

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You can expect the Create 3 to take almost whatever you can throw at it—or more importantly, almost whatever can be thrown at it in an educational environment. For more details on the Create 3, we spoke with Charlotte Redman, iRobot's product manager, and Steven Shamlian, principal electrical engineer.

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FTA awards almost $16.6M to coordinate fuel cell bus research

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million to the Center for Transportation and the Environment in Atlanta and $10.17 Partners: CTE, Atlanta, GA; Ohio State ,Columbus, OH; Design Line, Charlotte, NC; Ballard Power Systems, Lowell, MA. US Federal Transit Administration is awarding $6.42 ECO Saver IV Hybrid Electric Fuel Cell Bus Demonstration. Amount: $1,667,408.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Re-charging at Ufford Park

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We don’t have to do anything and it’s helping the environment - win win! Interview by Charlotte Dautzenberg The user friendly nature of the CP means that it isn’t a chore. Win win indeed! And finally, would you recommend that Hotels get EV charge points? Green parking spaces for green drivers! Without a shadow of a doubt.