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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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General Fusion and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) kicked off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of a collaborative agreement. The results will hone the design of General Fusion’s demonstration machine being built at the Culham Campus, part of the UK fusion cluster.

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NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 platform to power world’s first robotic motor sports competition

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Part of the new Formula E ePrix electric racing series, Roborace combines the intrigue of robot competition with electric racing. That’s why Kinetik, the London-based investment firm behind Roborace, approached NVIDIA. That’s more than 10 times the computational horsepower than NVIDIA’s previous-generation DRIVE PX.

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Ford Shows Focus BEV Prototype at Frankfurt

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A consortium of Ford, Scottish and Southern Energy and Strathclyde University will use the fleet of fifteen prototype Ford Focus BEV vehicles and a charging infrastructure in and around the London Borough of Hillingdon from early 2010.

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Innovation and finance: Developing cutting-edge technologies and making the City of London the global centre of green finance. Many manufactures are phasing out pure Petrol and Diesel vehicles and instead, are replacing them with Hybrid vehicles that enable the vehicle to run on part fuel, part electric.

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Jaguar Land Rover and EPSRC announce $17M autonomous vehicle research program; 5 projects selected

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As part of its strategic partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, EPSRC issued a joint call for research proposals that focussed on developing fully autonomous cars: “ Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control ”. The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory.