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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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million to four industry and academic teams for additional research into ideas to reduce aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise in aircraft that could enter service between 2030 and 2035. Hybrid electric propulsion also has the potential to shorten takeoff distance and reduce noise. NASA is awarding $16.5 million, three years.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

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Submitted to the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee in support of Senate Bill 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry By Tim Benford, president of Drive Electric Dayton. My EV’s electric drive unit (motor) that provides the acceleration also reduces the need for using the brakes and brake repair.

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Daimler Buses North America’s Orion VII Transit Bus Makes World Debut with SCR

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Daimler Buses North America (DBNA) unveiled the new-generation diesel Orion VII transit bus, now equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions technology, at the Bus & Paratransit Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The new generation Orion VII is available with diesel, hybrid and natural gas (CNG) drives.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. The huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will send an Orion spacecraft into orbit, the systems will be checked out, the solid-fuel boosters will be jettisoned, and a liquid-propellant rocket will kick Orion into an elliptical high orbit, reaching an apogee of 110,000 kilometers.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Kia Niro Hybrid

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The 2023 Kia Niro hybrid is the class leader in fuel economy. liter 4-cylinder engine coupled to a 32-kW electric motor that puts out 139 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque, driving the front wheels through a 6-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Stopping was through four-wheel electric-boosted anti-lock brakes.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. The enriched uranium fuel they use must be kept secure. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5 There are currently about. percent efficiency.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

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Charging the British way Around the UK In the UK my goal was to drive from Heathrow on a mammoth loop around the very northern parts of the Scottish Highlands on the NC 500 route, which traverses one of the most remote and sparsely populated parts of Europe. I took delivery of an EV6 that Kia UK kindly loaned me.

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