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U-M, Ford open robotics complex to accelerate future of advanced, more equitable robotics and mobility

Green Car Congress

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. The fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers—including autonomous vehicle researchers—and engineers.

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Eindhoven University of Technology to make biofuels from its own wood waste; cyclic oxygenate CyclOx and ethanol

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. Credit: ACS, Boot 2008.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. I constructed the curriculum with another professor in the engineering school,” he said. The students were primarily in electrical or mechanical engineering. Sound familiar?”

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Utrecht, a largely bicycle-propelled city of 350,000 just south of Amsterdam, has become a proving ground for the bidirectional-charging techniques that have the rapt interest of automakers, engineers, city managers, and power utilities the world over. technology-license deal for the first commercial deployment of vehicle-to-grid technology.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

The LIGHTS team had the Volvo VNR Electric tractor assessed by a team at the University of California, Riverside on a heavy-duty dynamometer. The LIGHTS team found that, once acquired, the electric truck had significantly lower operating costs per mile—but that didn’t make up for the higher purchase cost. The cost equation is trickier.

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Minnesota Plug-in Law

Plug In Partners

The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine. The new law instructs the state to buy plug-in hybrids on a preferred basis when they become available and also it encourages Minnesota State University at Mankato to develop a flex-fueled hybrid.

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