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ZF signs multi-year supply agreement with STMicroelectronics for silicon carbide devices for new inverters

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ST will manufacture the silicon carbide chips at its production fabs in Italy and Singapore with packaging of the chips into STPAK, an ST-developed advanced package, and testing at its back-end facilities in Morocco and China. STPAK is a multi sintering package well suited for EV applications.

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The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector just came online

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Katie Jackson, the president of National Grid Ventures, which runs National Grid’s interconnector business, said: As we deploy more wind power to meet our climate and energy security targets, connections to our neighboring countries will play a vital role [in] increasing [the] security of supply and reducing prices for consumers.

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A Girls’ Trip to Costa Rica. But With No Phones, Did It Happen?

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I had wondered if a vacation without my phone would reprogram my iPhone-addled brain, whether it might deepen the connections I made or improve my travel experiences. She’d previously gone on two trips with FTLO, to Crete and to Morocco, experiences where she made lasting friendships. “At Orton, 37, of Ohio.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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He eventually found work for someone Jacob describes as “connected to traffickers.”. Migrants, including Jacob, give their compatriots back home a clear-eyed perspective: “I tell people who want to cross that it’s very dangerous…it’s not easy like people imagine it in Morocco,” Jacob says. What the tech is up against.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces its mid-size pickup truck: the X-Class leans on diesel

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Due to very specific market requirements, for example in Dubai and Morocco, the 122 kW/165 hp X 200 gasoline model is only available as a left-hand drive vehicle with rear wheel drive. Connectivity. This makes it possible to use the extensive Mercedes me connect services and to access the vehicle by smartphone.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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The journey to Mauritania also attracted me because it went through Southern Spain and Morocco, where I had never been before. But I wanted to discover Morocco, so I took about 10 days for the trip. But I wanted to discover Morocco, so I took about 10 days for the trip. Two trains a day connect Paris with the Catalan capital.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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