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Freightliner Inspiration truck receives autonomous vehicle licensing from Nevada DMV

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Nevada has granted the first license for an autonomous commercial truck—the Freightliner Inspiration—to operate on an open public highway in the United States to Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA).

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. South Coast Air Quality Management District’s UPS Ontario-Las Vegas LNG Corridor Expansion Project. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Total DOE award: $12,633,080.

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Blue Bird unveils two new electric school buses at the 2017 STN Expo; partners Adomani and EDI

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Blue Bird unveiled two new electric-powered school buses at the STN Tradeshow in Las Vegas: a Type A Micro Bird G5 electric-powered school bus and an all-new electric Type D chassis which will power its Type D All-American rear engine (RE) school bus. This announcement comes on the heels of a $4.4-million Earlier post.)The

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re essential components of the permanent magnets used in the motors of most electric vehicles and many appliances, and also in the generators in most wind turbines. So magnets go into motors. Those two alone are not sufficient because those kinds of motors run very hot, very quickly.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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For example, in a drone system, designers might have a flight controller that connects many peripheral chips for motor control and sensors of various kinds. This could combine new middleware, OS libraries, unikernels, and various mechanisms to grant and revoke authorization in order to enforce compartmental constraints. 7 VentureBeat.

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