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Universal Hydrogen completes first taxi tests; granted experimental airworthiness certificate by FAA; Air New Zealand agreement

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Universal Hydrogen was granted a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to proceed with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft. The Dash 8-300 flying testbed has a megawatt-class hydrogen fuel cell powertrain installed in one of its nacelles.

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Universal Hydrogen successfully completes first flight of hydrogen fuel cell powered regional airliner

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The airplane, nicknamed Lightning McClean, took off at 8:41am PST from Grant County International Airport (KMWH) and flew for 15 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,500 MSL. The airplanes are converted to hydrogen using an aftermarket retrofit conversion kit, tackling the existing fleet rather than developing a brand new airplane.

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Software Upgrade to Prius PHEV NiMH Conversion Kit Enables All-Electric Driving At Up to 70mph

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kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. Some previous Prius plug-in conversion kits allowed motorists to go as fast as 52 miles per hour using a “forced stealth” mode.

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

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To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants—Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville (Ky.) Assembly, which will be converted to produce small vehicles from Ford’s global Focus platform beginning in 2011.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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One company that’s hoping to reduce our battery anxiety is Exeger , which wants to enable self-charging devices that convert ambient light into energy on the go. So our solar cell can convert any light energy to electrical energy. We can print anything we want, and it will also be converting light energy to electric energy.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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Enter ice-penetrating radar (IPR), a technology that uses radio waves to image the internal layers of glaciers and the bed beneath them. In the 1960s, as part of an international collaboration, a U.S. In the 1960s, as part of an international collaboration, a U.S. Peregrine lands after a test flight in Norway.

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Promising EV Trends to Lookout For in 2023

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The Rising Price Of Petroleum Fuels One of the main advantages of EVs is that they are substantially less expensive to operate than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, in addition to being better for the environment. With better insights, you just pay for your driving behaviours, not those of other drivers.

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