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Volvo Cars demos self-driving cars in Beijing

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Implementing autonomous drive will improve safety, reduce emissions and ease mobility in heavily congested urban environments. Sweden and Volvo Cars have a record of being leaders in improving traffic safety and reducing the number of road casualties. This may also be an area into which we can expand our Chinese – Swedish co-operation.

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Ansys releases pre-lockdown global survey on vehicle electrification

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Global findings reveal more optimism for EVs—just 6% of Chinese respondents and 4% of Indian respondents will wait to buy an EV until gas-powered vehicles cease production. The sample included 16,037 adults 18-and-over, from the UK, US, DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), France, Sweden, Japan, China and India.

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Visedo introducing new SRPM motor design for buses; 10% increase in power, better cooling

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They are liquid-cooled and designed to work as traction motors in harsh operating environments. The company has PowerDRUM projects underway with Linkker in Finland (powering Helsinki’s first all-electric buses) and Hybricon Bus Systems in Sweden.

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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The other institutions involved were the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany; the Universities of Colorado, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Maryland as well as A.S.L.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Cervero believes that VMT (vehicle miles traveled—the number of miles you drive in your car each year), needs to decrease to have a more sustainable environment and he believes Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a way to achieve this goal in a way that people can embrace. Still, Prof. Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J., Kasseris, E.,

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature. The European countries where heat pumps are most used are some of the coldest, including Norway, Sweden, and Finland, where more than 40 percent of homes use heat pumps.

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6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

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Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea), and Huawei (China) build the radio units, baseband units, and other hardware and software that go into cell towers and the wired networks that connect them. While many U.S. Companies like. Cellular standards are developed and overseen by a global cellular industry consortium, the.

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