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Agenda Of International Road Freight Conference Makes It Clear Battery-Electric Will Dominate

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At the coal face of a conference that involved governmental figures, academics, logistics customers and OEMs, the detailed technical conversations are almost all about how battery electric trucks will work in the coming decades.

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IEEE WIE Conference Will Explore the Future of Work

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The 2022 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference is scheduled for 6 and 7 June in a hybrid format, with both in-person and virtual networking events. The past two conferences have been held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and they both were successful, reaching a large international audience.

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1st International Conference on Materials for Energy

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(Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology), a non-profit scientific and technical society based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and partners are organizing the 1 st International Conference on Materials for Energy , to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany 4-8 July 2010. The Call for Papers has been extended to 11 January.

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SwRI develops device to test friction, wear associated with EV fluids

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An internally funded SwRI project modified a commercial tribology testing machine to more effectively analyze the friction and wear associated with lubricants formulated for electric vehicles. The numerous rotating surfaces within EVs are exposed to voltage spikes during the DC-to-AC conversion process.

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2020 Detroit Auto Show cancels amid COVID-19 pandemic; expected conversion of TCF Center to field hospital

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The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) will cancel its June 2020 show in Detroit in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeping across the world and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s expected plans to repurpose TCF Center into a temporary field hospital. NAIAS will hold its next annual show in June 2021.

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Panasonic develops highly efficient artificial photosynthesis system with gallium nitride semiconductor for conversion of CO2 to formic acid

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Panasonic partially presented the technology on 30 July at the 19 th International Conference on the Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy ( IPS-19 ) in Pasadena. Panasonic’s artificial photosynthesis system has a simple structure with highly efficient CO 2 conversion, which can utilize direct sunlight or focused light.

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Toshiba targeting practical implementation of conversion of solar energy and CO2 to feedstock and fuel in 2020s

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Toshiba introduced the technology at the 2014 International Conference on Artificial Photosynthesis ( ICARP2014 ) on 26 November. Towards this, Toshiba said it will further improve the conversion efficiency by increasing catalytic activity, with the aim of securing practical implementation in the 2020s.