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VinFast partners with Gotion High-Tech on LFP battery cell R&D

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Gotion High-Tech is a leading developer and manufacturer of LFP batteries for electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and other applications in China and across the world. In addition, Vingroup has recently established VinES Energy Solutions JSC focusing on research and manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles.

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

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He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. Mentoring the next generation of power engineers Born in the village of Wuxing in China, Chen and his family moved to Taiwan in 1949 when he was a teenager. It was later renamed the Energy Systems Research Center.

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Adgero signs €3.5M deal with ultracap manufacturer Skeleton for road freight KERS

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million (US$4-million) distribution agreement to ensure modules from ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies, are part of its Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) for road freight. During braking, the unit becomes a generator, recovering kinetic energy that would otherwise be lost as heat and storing it in the ultra-capacitors.

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Gogoro expands its battery-swapping electric scooters to the Americas

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Gogoro will head off its South American operations by partnering with the Latin American energy company Copec to launch its battery-swapping network and Gogoro Smartscooters in Chile and Colombia. Starting in Taiwan, Gogoro has since expanded to China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, and The Philippines.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Greico, Stimson Center Back in 1981, Israel sent modest contraptions sporting surveillance cameras in its war against Syria, to some effect. Right now the militaries of the world are working on ways to shoot down small drones with directed-energy weapons based on lasers or microwaves. Reaper, which it broadly resembles.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. Israel made news in April by field-testing an airborne antimissile laser called Iron Beam, a play on the name Iron Dome, the missile system it has used to down rockets fired from Gaza.

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