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Volkswagen launches new engineer training program for ID EV family

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The Volkswagen brand has launched a program—the “Future Electronic Engineer Program” (FEEP)—to train 100 young engineers and skilled workers throughout the world as top production experts in e-mobility. The first participants to complete the three-year program will support the run-up phase of the I.D.

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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry

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At the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit held 12-15 March in Orlando, many of the world’s leading battery makers, test equipment manufacturers, and theorists gathered to talk about advances in the field and to present new products claiming to make the battery production process quicker and cheaper.

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Study finds hands-free just as distracting as handheld mobile phone use behind the wheel

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Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, according to a recent study by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. An epidemiological study found that mobile phone conversations increase crash risk by a factor of four.

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Video Friday: ReachBot

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These robotic units called RoboSalps, after their animal namesakes, have been engineered to operate in unknown and extreme environments such as extra-terrestrial oceans. This panel will be moderated by Penn Engineering SEAS Dean Dr. Vijay Kumar. Discover how they are putting Stretch to work.

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Video Friday: No Time to Dance

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To face this challenge, a team of engineers from Caltech has developed Neural-Fly, a deep-learning method that can help drones cope with new and unknown wind conditions in real time just by updating a few key parameters. Hear from Dusty engineers about what it's like to work at Dusty and the impact their work has—every day.

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Protean Electrics retrofitted through-the-road plug-in hybrid van showing significant fuel economy gains

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The vehicle is being shown for the first time in North America at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminar, 1–4 Aug. Protean Electric outfitted the front-wheel-drive Vivaro with a through-the-road hybrid conversion kit of two Protean Electric PD-18 motors attached to the rear axle. in Traverse City, Mich.

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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The proposed system uses a very small starter battery, the sole function of which is to start the engine. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar, UIUC). start-stop) vehicles. Earlier post.). The PbC battery would run all the electronics in the car. Axion is looking at both a 12V and a 16V application, Granville said.

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