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MAN Lion’s City 18 E articulated electric bus to begin practical testing in Barcelona and Cologne later this year

Green Car Congress

As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN Truck & Bus is sending a fleet of demo e-buses to customers in five European countries this year. The fleet comprises 15 test vehicles, which will be deployed as part of everyday operations. This year, another 13 demo vehicles will be deployed in practice as part of the e-mobility roadmap.

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Video Friday: Robot Training

Cars That Think

Our transformer robot visited Philly in 2022 as part of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. CMU ] Chengxu Zhou from the University of Leeds writes, “we have recently done a demo with one operator teleoperating two legged manipulator for a bottle opening task.” [ Real Robotics ] Thanks, Chengxu!

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BioBoost project targets conversion of biomass into intermediate energy carriers for subsequent conversion into fuels, chemicals, power and heat

Green Car Congress

The project, coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), will start in early 2012. The fast pyrolysis and HTC processes of demo-size (0.5-1 1 t/h) are optimized for feedstock flexibility, yield, quality and further up-scaling is part of the project. Funding granted to KIT will amount to nearly €1 million (US$1.3

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Expecting ROCE to be higher than 20% in long run: Sunil Bohra, Uno Minda – ET Auto

Baua Electric

What is your current EV order book and whether or not the kit value has actually increased? If you see in terms of kit value, we are already at the max kit value possible in the industry domestically. We have some strategic no-goes like battery or body or tyre, etc. One is the capex and another is the land bank.

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Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere

Cars That Think

She and others who took part in the presentation appeared extraordinarily real. Instructors can teach their skills as if live before students, while engineers could demo prototypes by beaming themselves to colleagues with access to networked cabinets. It was as if Haba was standing in the booth as the two conversed.

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Power-To-X: Sunfire reports successful test run of co-electrolysis system of >500 hours; e-Crude demo targeted

Green Car Congress

Sunfire achieved the technological breakthrough within the framework of the Kopernikus project Power-to-X (03SFK2Q0), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in conjunction with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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ONR developing offensive autonomous swarming capability for unmanned surface vehicles; adapting JPL’s CARACaS

Green Car Congress

The technology under development—based on the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing ( CARACaS ) developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—can be put into a transportable kit and installed on almost any boat.

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