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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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Working with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Toyota Motor North America, the team is sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. Earlier post.).

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In The light from the mirror passed through filters and onto the 24-element array of detectors—six for each of the MSS’s four spectral bands—yielding 24 channels of video data. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.

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