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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. government agencies.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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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. The school can use the money to purchase batteries and other replacement parts.

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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 Beginning in the mid-1960s, the USDA had worked with NASA and labs at Purdue University and the University of Michigan to develop new ways to identify crops from high-altitude aircraft and satellites.

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