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Phoenix Motorcars, EasyMile win grant for development of first FMVSS-compliant autonomous shuttle bus in US

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The city of Houston is set to receive the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Buy America-compliant mid-size autonomous bus in the US. Jointly developed by Phoenix Motorcars and EasyMile , the EZ Zeus self-driving bus will be deployed in real-life traffic conditions.

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GKN Aerospace leading £3.1M collaborative research to develop titanium powder for 3D printing of aerospace parts

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Consortium partners include UK companies Phoenix Scientific Industries Ltd and Metalysis and the University of Leeds. They will then define the production methods that will produce AM-designed materials to ensure cost is minimized whilst production quality, quantity and consistency all meet the rigorous standards required by aerospace.

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Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

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In “Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above ATS Recommended Standards, 2011-2013,” published online in the August edition of Annals of the American Thoracic Society , researchers report on the annual health benefits of meeting more protective standards recommended by the ATS for O 3 and PM 2.5.

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SAE taskforce J2954 on wireless charging and positioning standards looking to have final draft of guideline this year; significant industry involvement

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The objective of the taskforce is initially to create a guideline for demonstration projects and design verification and later standardize in 2015 with field confirmation. As part of its work on specifying the center operating frequency for WPT, the taskforce has issued a request for information on interference frequencies (e.g.,

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. Some teams are working on their projects as part of an engineering curriculum or a senior design project. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S. I’ve learned so many things.”

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NREL Study Finds UPS First-Generation Hybrid Vans Deliver Almost 29% Greater Fuel Economy

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Funded by the DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), NREL’s Fleet Test & Evaluation (FT&E) team performed a 12-month evaluation of six MY 2007 P70D hybrid vans and six MY 2006 P70D standard diesel vans at a UPS location in Phoenix, collecting and analyzing fuel economy, maintenance and other vehicle performance data.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Phoenix, Ariz., This situation is not true universally. As part of this planning effort, Bodoh says that REC has actively been performing “an engineering study that looked at line loss across our systems as well as our transformers, and said, ‘If this transformer got one L2 charger, what would happen?

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