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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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A team led by Southwest Research Institute has applied connectivity and automation to achieve a 20% improvement in efficiency on a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. Vehicle connectivity and automation are already being used to effectively improve vehicle safety and driver convenience. Earlier post.).

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Aurora unveils ride-hailing test fleet based on Toyota Sienna; testing in Texas

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The Toyota S-AM will serve as the backbone platform for the expected launch of Aurora Connect, its autonomous ride-hailing product. The riders were picked up at Toyota’s Headquarters and then driven autonomously on a portion of the route that would normally be taken to the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

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INRIX and Parkmobile bring end-to-end parking solution to the connected car

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a leading provider of dynamic connected car services worldwide, and Parkmobile, the leading provider of on-demand and prepaid mobile payments for on- and off- street parking and mobility solutions, announced a strategic partnership at the annual International Parking Institute (IPI) conference. INRIX, Inc.,

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

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Early results from Univ. of Texas hydraulic fracturing study show no direct link to groundwater contamination; contamination problems appear related to other aspects of drilling ops

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The Energy Institute team includes experts from the university’s Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Bureau of Economic Geology, Lyndon B. Researchers also expect to include an evaluation of fugitive air emissions attributed to equipment leaks, evaporative losses from surface impoundments and spills.

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Denbury Undertakes Midwest CO2 Pipeline Feasibility Study

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has initiated a comprehensive feasibility study of a possible long-term CO 2 pipeline project which would connect proposed gasification plants in the Midwest to Denbury’s existing CO 2 pipeline infrastructure in Mississippi or Louisiana. Denbury Resources Inc. billion, based on the cost of other pipelines recently built or under construction.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

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Their suggestions included, yes, yoga rooms (at San Francisco International Airport, Chicago Midway International Airport, and Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, among others) but also short-story dispensers, tranquil gardens, even a swimming pool. The cupcake A.T.M.s, At Daniel K.