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Fiat Chrysler investing additional $266M in Kokomo to increase capacity for 8-speed transmissions

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With fewer open shift elements, drag losses due to multiple parts rotating relative to one another, are reduced. In comparison to the fleet of conventional transmissions they replaced, TorqueFlites promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than six million metric tonnes over the same timeframe.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I Two decades of teaching about driving electric. Professor Donald Cox driving his Tesla Signature One Hundred Roadster.

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Tesla’s software fixes, the NHTSA’s status quo, and an impending need for updated recall terminologies

Teslarati

My current vehicle, a Japanese-made van, was part of a minor fuel pump recall a couple of years ago, and even addressing that took a whole day out of my weekend. In comparison, a software-based fix, such as the disabling of FSD Beta’s “rolling stops” feature , only required affected vehicles to be connected to the internet.

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EPA Posts Peer Review of Renewable Fuel Standards Lifecycle Analysis

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In general, these problematic areas were part of the satellite imagery analysis, rather than the emissions factor analysis. Ralph Heimlich, Agricultural Conservation Economics; Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, World Resources Institute; Dr. Jeremy Martin, Union of Concerned Scientists; and Dr. Kenneth Richards, Indiana University.

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Toyota was the most searched auto brand in 2023, but Tesla still dominates EV queries

Baua Electric

to determine these comparisons, MarketWatch Guides put together its own study of the top searched automotive brands and their respective models using key Google data. In fact, four of the ten most searched automotive brands in 2023 had one or fewer battery electric vehicles (BEVs) available in the US market last year.

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“WaterBone” design wins grand prize in ARPA-E LITECAR Challenge

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The winning design, Aerodynamic Water Droplet with Strong Lightweight Bone Structure (“WaterBone”), was created by Andres Tovar, a mechanical engineering assistant professor at the School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and his group of graduate students. Novel manufacturing process.

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This AI Hunts for Hidden Hoards of Battery Metals

Cars That Think

Given the mix of cutting-edge scientific computing and old-school bravado, it was as though they were channeling Alan Turing and Indiana Jones simultaneously. Our startup, KoBold Metals , acquired an 800-square-kilometer mineral claim in the region based in part on predictions from our artificial intelligence systems.