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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The produced dry hydrogen gas is stored into two 350 l composite cylinders. The total installed power is 206.5

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Ascend Energy and Atrex Energy demo tubular SOFC electric ATV, fueled by natural gas

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idea Solutions Design, and JB Mechanical to integrate and install a commercial 1000 Watt Atrex Energy fuel cell power generator fueled with compressed natural gas in an all-electric Polaris Ranger ATV. Developed SOFC designs with peak output over 10 kW; the first working SOFC generated a mere 20 watts of power. Tripled power density.

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EnerDel to Supply Batteries for Japanese Electric Bus Demo

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Our battery systems were chosen on the basis of performance and flexibility and the fact that they can easily be configured to fit the challenging design requirements in the accessible, low-floor bus design that is becoming standard around the world.

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BMW i ChargeForward Program to demo contribution of intelligent EV charging to grid efficiency

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BMW i ChargeForward is designed to explore how to better match the impact of electric vehicles with other dynamic energy supply and demand sources. The study has two parts, a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners and a battery second life energy storage system. BMW i Home Charging Services.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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All of them are backed by expert roboticists with years of design experience. This is a sensible design choice to get up and running, but would definitely need redoing for longer-term operation. Designing the whole stack of hardware, simulation and data infrastructure is requiring Tesla to reinvent the wheel on many fronts.

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Harley-Davidson Livewire electric motorcycle makes European debut in Milan; more specs and details

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As part this accelerated plan, Harley-Davidson intends to be the world leader in the electrification of motorcycles. Drawing from the experiences of the Project LiveWire demo tour and following an intensive development program the Harley-Davidson LiveWire model offers the rider a new, high-performance motorcycling experience.

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Hamburg putting its first Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid buses into service

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Hamburger Hochbahn AG has acquired four Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrids under the German “NaBuZ demo” scheme to promote sustainable bus systems for the future. The latter are designed for an extended service life of at least six years or 12,000 operating hours. Three more buses are to follow next year. Earlier post.).

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