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Ford opens E-Transit Registration site for commercial customers; new pricing

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It will be built alongside the Transit at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. The zero-emission E-Transit was designed with insight from 30 million miles of customer telematics data showing that the average commercial van drives 74 miles per day.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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His initial work focused on developing CAD programs to help researchers design microwave circuits and communications networks. Two years later, he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri in Rolla. He left to move to Missouri, earning a Ph.D.

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2018 Ford F-150 features new engine line-up, with all-new 3L diesel; start-stop standard; more ADAS

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Ford is previewing the new truck on Sunday during the FOX NFL Wildcard Pregame Show and will reveal it on Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. liter Power Stroke diesel engine, designed, engineered and tested in-house and paired with the 10-speed automatic transmission. The new engines include an all-new 3.0-liter

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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In 1997 he received three prestigious awards: the Karl Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit from the International Solar Energy Society , the Becquerel Prize from the European Commission , and the Cherry Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society. Sauer served in the U.S. in 1974 and 1977, respectively.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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Travertine will develop the design basis for a 1 ton/day CO 2 removal system to demonstrate the technical feasibility and commercial viability of this concept, taking it from proof-of-concept to field-ready. Leached critical elements are recovered as oxides, while carbonate minerals are precipitated using carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the air.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Innovative Weld Solutions; ITW; Lockheed Martin; Luvata; Materion; MesoCoat; MTI; NanoSteel Company; Optomec; Phoenix Integration; PowderMet; RealWeld; RTI International Metals; SaCell; Southwest Research Institute (SWRI); Steel Warehouse Co.; Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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DOE awards nearly $55M to advance fuel efficient vehicle technologies in support of EV Everywhere and SuperTruck

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Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration (Area of Interest 2). Vehma International of America. This project will design, develop, and demonstrate an ultra- light hybrid composite door and utilize predictive engineering (PE) to identify robust material and process design cycles. TPI Composites.

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