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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

Green Car Congress

Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. After reviewing of the works of several researchers and government agencies, CAR developed a working definition to differentiate high-tech industries from other sectors.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

He has been working with electric vehicles (EVs) since 1986, when he was involved with electric and hybrid development in the bus industry. Among the contests was “a huge late winter race in Phoenix with a variety of events and classes, including Formula Lightning ,” for which he was an advisor to a team from Ohio State.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

He left in 1973 to serve as chief scientist of the defense systems group at TRW (now part of Northrop Grumman ), an automotive and aerospace company, in Euclid, Ohio. He helped write the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge , a continuously updated reference for the industry.

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Irradiating the Mail: The Anthrax Attacks of 2001

Cars That Think

now part of L3Harris Technologies), to irradiate the lot, along with all letters, large envelopes, newsletters, and magazines destined for congressional and government offices in the Washington, D.C., Titan had a facility in Lima, Ohio, with a single accelerator operating at 18 kW at 10 MeV. ZIP codes 20200 to 20599.

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