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KIT launches AgiloDrive project on agile production system for electric motors

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In Germany, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has launched AgiloDrive, a project seeking to develop novel product kits and production technologies for electric motors for direct transfer to industry. —Professor Jürgen Fleischer, Head of the wbk Institute of Production Science of KIT. —Professor Fleischer.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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It solicited early-stage projects that have already been piloted but not yet widely deployed, plus theoretical concepts that have potential. Distributed manufacturing of Nimble units can significantly reduce the cost and speed of production and make us less reliant on international supply chains.”

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. We agree with Toyotas comments, which is why we advocate for mass production of PHEVs: "Were immensely gratified that some enthusiasts, in a tacit endorsement of the hybrid concept, are, on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, converting Toyota hybrids to plug-in technology.

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2023 Peugeot e-Partner review: New electric van arrives to help green your fleet – at a price…

EV Central

Service intervals are 25,000km/12 month and average out at $346 across the first give visits to the workshop. Alternatively, an interior LED light kit is also on offer, which would be helpful as its pretty dingy in the back. You cab prepay for three years at $600 or five years for $1000. 2023 Peugeot e-Partner. 2023 Peugeot e-Partner.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” in Rochester, NY. San Jose, Calif.,

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