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Tesla loses VP of Legal to LiDAR startup Luminar

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Tesla’s longtime Vice President of Legal and Acting General Counsel, Al Prescott, has joined LiDAR startup Luminar. “Luminar has pioneered safety-critical technology that will power our autonomous future. Tesla’s Autonomy Day highlights Elon Musk’s vision for a full self-driving future without LiDAR.

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Major power and gas company E.ON splitting in two; focusing on renewables, spinning off conventional power generation

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Düsseldorf, Germany-base E.ON, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas companies, is adopting a new strategic direction under which is will split itself in two. These two missions are so fundamentally different that two separate, distinctly focused companies offer the best prospects for the future. SE shareholders.

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T&E: tests show cars powered by electrofuels emit high levels of criteria pollutants

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Due to the lack of commercially available e-fuels, IFPEN had to blend three e-fuel blends itself representative of potential future fuel that are compatible with gasoline cars. Future e-fuels are likely to be mostly paraffinic blends as these aree the chemicals produced during the Ficher-Tropsch process, T&E said. aromatics).

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Two-way EV Charging – The Future of Electric Vehicle Power

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Consumers have been lowering their power demands for more than a decade by adding solar panels to their roofs. Two-way EV charging will reduce that even further- using EV batteries to power homes (vehicle-to-home V2H), buildings (vehicle-to-building V2B) or feed it back to the grid with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Valeo acquires electric supercharger business from Controlled Power

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As part of its strategy of developing solutions to reduce CO 2 emissions, Valeo has acquired the Variable Torque Enhancement System (VTES) ( earlier post ) business of UK automotive technology development company Controlled Power Technologies (CPT). VTES will be integrated into Valeo’s Powertrain Systems Business Group with immediate effect.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Heath has great job security: half of Phoenix residents are at risk of an emergency room visit or worse if their electricity fails during a future heat wave, according to a recent study. But to get the air conditioner’s compressor working in the first place, a faraway power plant had to produce a surge of electricity.

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Dürr introduces new EcoDS MACS rectifier for cathodic electrocoating

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Dürr’s new EcoDC MACS ( E lectro co ating D irect C urrent M odular A node C ontrol S ystem) rectifier for cathodic electrocoating provides 50% more power with the same space requirement, making it possible to design the layout of new plants more flexibly and easily increase existing plants’ capacity.

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