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‘‘Retrofitting can be a better option than investing in new commercial vehicles’’ | Autocar Professional

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This may include installing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) like lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, or collision avoidance systems. Where are the kits coming from? MK Agrawal: For the kit assembly most of the components are made in India like Battery pack, HVPDU, telematic devices, and other related components.

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Heliostat Consortium announces 7 projects to receive combined $3.5M in funding; DOE launches Heliostat Prize

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Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. Robotic-Assisted Facet Installation (RA-FI): Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp.,

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Biomethane Pickup Debuts in Flint, Michigan

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Students, working with faculty members at Kettering, converted a 2500HD Chevy Silverado to run on a dual-fuel system. installed a kit that allows the biofuel truck to run on both natural gas and gasoline. Mott Foundation, Swedish agencies, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). Baytech Corp.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. Drivers of converted cars have received high levels of cooperation from dealer service departments so far.

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

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Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., and a major user of microprocessors, was looking for a vice president of corporate technology.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. If youre interested in converting your Prius, see the information at How To Get a Plug-In Hybrid. Progress Energy Corporation by Advanced Vehicle Research Center , with Hymotion kit, July 2007 (Raleigh, NC), contact Mike.Ligett@.

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