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California “gasoline superuser” bill advances; focusing ZEV incentives on reducing gasoline use

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By shifting the biggest gasoline users into ZEVs first, AB 2816 also reduces the total number of ZEVs that would be needed to reach the state’s near-term target of cutting light-duty vehicle emissions in half by 2030. —Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham (R-Central Coast). There’s nobody you see driving more than a landscaper.

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NuScale Power receives US NRC design approval for small modular reactor

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NuScale has signed agreements with entities in the US, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan. NuScale Power has developed a new modular light water reactor nuclear power plant to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, and other process heat applications.

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New GM EcoTec3 engine family for 2014 Silverado and Sierra pickups; direct injection, cylinder deactivation and CVVT

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The newly unveiled 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 pickup trucks will deliver more power, more torque and improved fuel efficiency, partly due to a trio of all-new EcoTec3 engines designed specifically for the needs of full-size truck customers. The new engine family includes a 4.3L V6, a 5.3L V-8 and a 6.2L

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Video Friday: Medusai

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It uses AI-driven computer vision to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly through snake gestures, music, and light. Collaborating with engineers, our humanoid robots collect real-world data from teleoperation for learning to iterate control algorithms. If this seems a little bit unsettling, that’s intentional!

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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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Smith says she believed the disparity was because girls were not being introduced to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in elementary and middle school. An app to track police vehicles Last year Code Girls United’s advanced class held in Kalispell received a special request from Jordan Venezio , the city’s police chief.

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New 450hp Small Block V8 for 2014 Corvette features direct injection, cylinder deactivation, continuously variable valve timing

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The new Corvette LT1 engine, the first of the Gen 5 family of Small Block engines, combines several advanced technologies, including direct injection, Active Fuel Management and continuously variable valve timing to support a new advanced combustion system with an 11.5:1 —Tadge Juechter, Corvette chief engineer.

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Global Microchip Shortage

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To future-proof the business and ensure that demand would not outstrip supply over the long term, myenergi’s innovative team of engineers tackled the impending supply issue head on, working round the clock to completely re-design its product range.

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