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AM General and TARDEC partnering on autonomous driving vehicle; testing at West Point

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The ARIBO program allows current civilian robotics technology to be examined in vehicles in a semi-controlled environment such as military bases like West Point which have restricted roads, predefined routes and restrictive operations for favorable conditions. Time and money savings. Energy efficiency. Navigation and mapping ability.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. Riko-chan and the Perfect Circuit , written by IEEE Member Lais Lara Baptista, follows the character as she and a friend try to repair the old lights in her grandmother’s house.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

Get Electric Vehicle

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video.

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No Silent Electric Vehicles | Sound For Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicless

Reports by World Health Organization (WHO) further indicate that exposure to higher levels of noise in the environment, particularly above 53 decibels (dB), can lead to health issues like heart problems, high blood pressure and even hearing losses. Geekay Electric Cycle Kit. Source:- [link]. Also Read:-. Felidae Electric Bicycle.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

It is simply a unit of measurement that equals the amount of energy you would use if you kept a 1,000 watt appliance running for an hour: So if you switched on a 100 watt light bulb, it would take 10 hours to rack up 1 kWh of energy. The solar panels attach to the roof and convert solar light into electrical energy. So much for power.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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One company that’s hoping to reduce our battery anxiety is Exeger , which wants to enable self-charging devices that convert ambient light into energy on the go. So our solar cell can convert any light energy to electrical energy. And now, we use the electrons to light the lamp or a motor or whatever we do with it.