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New Ford Escape launching with two new EcoBoost engines with standard Auto Start-Stop

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The new Ford Escape, being showcased at the Los Angeles Auto Show, is the first Ford vehicle to make Auto Start-Stop standard with either of two EcoBoost engines new to the model—a 1.5-liter Escape SE and Titanium trim levels come standard with the new 1.5-liter liter and 2.0-liter liter twin-scroll. liter EcoBoost is optional.

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REV Building Four Converted Battery-Electric Vehicles for US Military TARDEC Program; Electric Ford Escape and F-150 Vehicles as Part of Micro-Grid Project

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The order is for three REV 300ACXs and one REV 300AZX based on the Ford Escape and Ford F-150 platforms, respectively. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery). APVs are battery-electric light-duty fleet vehicles that combine proprietary propulsion, power management and mobile communication technologies developed by REV.

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MAN offering pre-chamber spark plugs for turbocharged nat gas engines to increase efficiency; hydrogen admixture up to 20% by volume

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A conversion of the engines is not necessary for the use of pre-chamber spark plugs. Due to the structural and structural design, the fuel gas-air mixture in the main combustion chamber can be better ignited by the escaping high-energy flame jets of the pre-chamber and thus lean mixtures can be safely ignited.

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DOE awards $35M to 12 ARPA-E projects to reduce methane emissions; 5 on natural gas engines

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The system will significantly increase methane conversion efficiency and comply with future stringent nitrous oxide regulations. The project team’s technology will consist of a novel methane oxidation catalyst (MOC) formulation capable of high conversion efficiencies at the lower exhaust temperatures in ultra-lean burn engines.

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The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard

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One of the earliest doomsayers was Nick Bostrom ; long before GPT-4, he argued that once an AGI far exceeds our capabilities it will likely find ways to escape the digital world and methodically destroy human civilization. On the topic of the potential of GPT-4 and its successors to wreak civilizational havoc, there’s similar disunity.

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New Heinrich high-precision mass flow meter for H2 filling stations; OIML R 139 2018

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This can be used to control the compressor pumping the hydrogen, for example switching to a higher volume or conversely interrupting pumping, Thometzki said. Both the TMU-W 004 housing and the field housing of the transducer are pressure-resistant and intrinsically safe, which helps prevent fire or explosion in case gas escapes.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Every conversation with him was a journey, where words were not just sounds, but bridges to a deeper understanding. He was interested in the details, those small nuances that often escape notice, but for him were the key to truly understanding people and the world around him. In our conversations, Roberto truly shined.

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