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Volkswagen launches new research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). —Scott Keogh, President & CEO at Volkswagen Group of America. transportation sector.

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. Attendees learned how to design, operate, and stabilize systems. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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TU/ecomotive develops waste-free car with UBQ: Luca

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Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the aim of showing the world that a hypothetical, sustainable car of the future can be a reality today. Luca is designed to be highly energy-efficient.

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Renault opens Innovation Lab in Paris to focus on future of mobility

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Renault Innovation Lab – Le Square has been designed as an experimental laboratory, open to its business environment and close to the Renault and Renault-Nissan Alliance teams to make the proliferation of ideas easier. It looked towards the ecosystem of worldwide startups and the Californian universities of Stanford and Berkeley.

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TAU developing software tool to improve bike sharing systems management

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Engineers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel are developing a mathematical model to lead to a software solution to improve urban bike sharing systems management. There is no system for more scientifically managing the availability of bikes, creating dissatisfaction among users in popular parts of the city. — Dr. Raviv.

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European consortium investigating graphene-based materials for lightweight cars; energy-efficient and safe vehicles

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The University of Sunderland (UK), working with a consortium of five other research partners from Italy, Spain and Germany, has been selected for funding by the €1-billion (US$1.4-billion) Source: University of Sunderland. This enhanced understanding will inform asset owners and managers and lead to improved design strategies.

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Lexus RC F makes its European debut at Geneva; V8 with Otto-Atkinson cycle

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The notion of combining the Atkinson cycle at part loads with the Otto cycle at full loads stretches back more than 30 years to a 1982 paper by a team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology. The RC F features an all-new 5.0-liter In a 1995 paper, Boggs et al. Saunders, R., and Chopra, A.

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