Sat.Dec 14, 2019

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Mercedes-Benz switching to cameras instead of side-mirrors on heavy-duty trucks

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Since June 2019, Mercedes-Benz Trucks has been supplying the new heavy-duty Actros truck with MirrorCam—side-mounted digital rear-view mirrors—as a standard feature. The digital rear-view mirror not only looks futuristic but can also do much more than conventional main and wide-angle mirrors. Its performance far exceeds the legal requirements.

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Ford Mach-E origin, Cadillac EVs, Porsche Taycan range and drive review: The Week in Reverse

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Which EV requires that owners return to the dealership for an upgrade, so they can then get future upgrades? How are shoppers’ priorities shaping up for future electric trucks like the Tesla Cybertruck? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending December 13, 2019. This week.

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New doped graphene cathode with MoS2 loading enables highly stable Li-sulfur battery

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A team at the University of Manchester (UK) has developed a doped graphene cathode for highly stable lithium-sulfur batteries. In an open access paper in the Nature journal Communications Chemistry , they report 100% charge capacity of Li-S batteries using the cathode material with 500 charge/discharge cycles at 0.5 C, 1 C, 2 C and 3 C charge rates.

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DOE to award up to $3M to advance process intensification and modular technology development

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million for projects that address barriers to modular chemical process intensification to enable development of breakthrough technologies that can boost energy productivity and energy efficiency in industries such as oil and gas, pulp and paper, and chemical manufacturing. DOE’s Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment ( RAPID ) manufacturing institute will fund up to six research and development (R&D) projects that align with R

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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