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Guidehouse Insights names Rivian, NIO, and Nikola the leading EV “upstarts”

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A new Leaderboard Report from Guidehouse Insights evaluates the strategy and execution of 21 electric vehicle (EV) upstarts, with Rivian, NIO, and Nikola ranked as the leading market players. The Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Grid. —Scott Shepard, senior research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. “.

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Insight LiDAR develops first gesture detection sensing technology for autonomous vehicle LiDAR systems

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Insight LiDAR announced that its product, Insight 1600, is the first LiDAR with the combined high resolution and velocity detection to enable pedestrian gesture recognition. Wood reports that Insight LiDAR’s FMCW sensors are believed to have the lowest minimum detectable velocity on the market. —Chris Wood.

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Industrial Light & Magic Engineer Wins a Technical Oscar

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Vanns, who now works at Disney -owned Industrial Light & Magic , in London, was an avid cinephile growing up. But he didn’t realize until after college that his coding skills would be his entry into the film industry. “I He joined the London office of Industrial Light & Magic in 2014 as a senior production engineer.

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Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

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That insight could also help the car industry make cleaner combustion engines. The industrial processes behind crude oil refineries and the inner-workings of gas-powered combustion engines can emit PAHs, which can form into toxic air pollutants such as soot. Zhao et al. PAHs have a dark side, too.

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Volvo Cars brings Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to the US

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Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Waycare is also able to share synthesized data with the Waze navigation app in areas where this feature has been enabled.

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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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To find out about the latest technologies being used by the agricultural industry, I virtually attended the second annual AgTech Innovation Summit , held in February in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. By supplying plants with the precise amount of water, nutrients, and light, indoor farming creates an ideal environment for their growth.

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China issues draft guidelines to rein in lithium battery industry – ET Auto

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China has released draft guidelines aimed at reining in the country’s lithium battery industry , which has been in Western crosshairs over fears subsidised overproduction could flood global markets with cut-price exports.