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Panasonic boosts its Heating & Ventilation A/C company through a new alliance

Teslarati

Panasonic Corporation is boosting its Heating and ventilation A/C Business through a business alliance with tado°, a German energy control solution company. Through their alliance, the two companies will also aid each other in proposals and sales of their products and services.

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BMW i Ventures leads Series B Round of nanocoating technology company, actnano

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BMW i Ventures announced a lead investment in the Series B financing round of actnano , a company that has developed a next-generation nanocoating that offers protection for electronics across the automotive and consumer electronics markets. —Kasper Sage, managing partner at BMW i Ventures.

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BYD wants to bring a Land Rover-style SUV that can ‘float on water’ to Europe

Baua Electric

BYD claims one can float on water for a full 30 minutes. BYD may consider exporting two SUVs – the Yangwang U8 and the Fang Cheng Bao 5­ – to Europe, company executives told Automobilwoche. So Europeans can get an up-close look at the SUVs, the company plans to showcase them at the Geneva auto show in February.

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Rolls-Royce and Robert Allan present world’s first LNG-powered shallow-water push boat

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Rolls-Royce and Canadian vessel designers Robert Allan have developed the world’s first shallow-water push boat powered by LNG natural gas engines. —Christof von Bank, Director of Sales, Marine & Offshore Americas. These will be used to power the first LNG-powered car ferry on Lake Constance.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

Cars That Think

He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water.

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Aqueous Hybrid Ion battery company Aquion files for Chap. 11, targets sale of assets

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Immediately preceding the Chapter 11 filing, the company retrenched to a core R&D team by terminating approximately 80% of its personnel (several of whom have also entered into consulting agreements with the company to assist it in the sale of its assets), paused all factory operations, and stopped the marketing and selling of its products.

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Ecoclean cuts BMW engine plant robot cell power and water consumption by ~30%

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The system’s electric power and water consumption were each cut by. Eleven years later, when the company was celebrating the 100 th anniversary of its foundation, BMW ordered the 100 th cleaning machine of this type as part of a major order. Water consumption in particular was too. around 30 percent. to today’s standards.

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