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Solaris participating in electric road trial in Sweden

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Solaris Sverige AB, the Swedish market representative of Poland-based Solaris Bus & Coach company, is participating in the EVolution Road project which is creating an electric road which automatically detects and charges electric vehicles. A Solaris-built trolleybus will be adopted for test drives on a test road.

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The Portrait Artist

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Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. journalism, Michigan State University Family: Eric Nee (husband); Alex, Nadya, and Mischa Nee (children) First job: Community datebook writer at WBRW Radio in Somerville, N.J., There’s an art to writing a good profile, and it all starts with the interview.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She also provides guidance to university students and young professionals through outreach programs at Dell such as STEM Aspire. Mentoring the next generation of engineers When Zakrzewska was growing up in Poland, she and her family often listened to the radio. Zakrzewska helps judge the entries. After earning her Ph.D.

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China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

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Nexen has a joint venture shale gas project in Poland and is exploring for shale gas in Colombia. CNOOC Limited will continue to support oil sands research at Alberta universities and participate in the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). Earlier post.). These investments include a stake in MEG Energy Inc., OPTI Canada Inc.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Volkswagen Truck & Bus outlines roadmap for automated driving, connectivity, and alternative drive systems

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Volkswagen Truck & Bus is focusing on automated driving, connectivity, and alternative drive systems. This electric powertrain is designed in a way that means that it can be used to drive future distribution trucks and city buses manufactured by the Volkswagen Truck & Bus brands as a universal modular element. Earlier post.)

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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Egbert Adriaan Kreiken , a professor of astronomy at Ankara University , convinced the teenager that electronics engineering was going to be the “next big thing.” He started selling the idea to me and even bribed me by promising an internship at Philips , where he had connections. That was in the late 1950s.

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