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Wrightspeed partners with AxleTech on heavy-duty electric drive

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The partnership integrates decades of axle engineering experience into Wrightspeed’s electrification technology to meet growing demand from the company’s customers and partners, including Mack Trucks and New Zealand Bus (NZB).

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Video Friday: Robot Training

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RSS 2022 : 21 June–1 July 2022, NEW YORK CITY ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, BANGKOK IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today’s videos!

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Plug In America joins global alliance

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One of the first joint activities of the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance will be participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26, which will be held in Glasgow in November 2021. We can already see the EV growth; more than 3.24 million EVs were sold worldwide in 2020, compared to 2.6 We hope to see other countries join us!

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Video Friday: Sewer Spiders

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CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. Yifeng Zhu from UT Austin writes, "we have a paper accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning 2022, which describes a robot that learns a closed-loop visuomotor policy to make coffee using k-cup machine. send us your events for inclusion. Enjoy today's videos!

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Researchers find “zip-lignin” native to multiple plant species; potential for new approaches to degrading lignin for biorefineries

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And Karlen wondered how angelica, or any plant for that matter, could be making the molecules that confer weak bonds in lignin but not incorporate them. Using a method that Ralph’s group had developed decades ago, plus a new and highly sensitive mass spectrometer, Karlen found a way to detect low levels of native zip-lignin in poplar trees.

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IATA Calls for Government-Industry Alignment on Aviation Emissions; Biofuels May be Certified by 2010

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for the aviation industry and governments to bring an aligned global approach on aviation carbon emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference to be held this December in Copenhagen. Certification by 2010 or 2011 is a real possibility.

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand ( IGCC ). Private investment will only flow at the scale and pace necessary if it is supported by clear, credible and long-term policy frameworks that incentivize investments in low-carbon technologies rather than continuing to favor carbon-intensive energy sources.