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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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But after several of his students won the 2014 Schurz Innovation Challenge at Purdue, where students presented concepts for Web and mobile applications, Lu says he wanted to help students go from “research to technology transfer and commercialization. in EE in 2002, both from Stanford. Lu has also written several books.

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Volkswagen Group appoints new heads of Global R&D, Group Design, Group Product and Modular Toolkit Strategy

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Following various management functions at Audi and Volkswagen, he was named Head of Development Vehicle Concepts at Audi in Ingolstadt in 2003, assuming responsibility for the same task at Volkswagen Passenger Cars in 2007 before becoming Technical Director at Italdesign Giugiaro in 2010 and returning to Audi AG as Head of Vehicle Concepts in 2013.

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Aura System’s Generator Incorporated into Azure’s Balance Hybrid for USPS

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The AuraGen development started in 1994 with the first working proof of concept demonstration in 1996. Starting in 1999, Aura Systems focused all of its resources on the AuraGen (all other operations were sold and or discontinued) and in early 2001 the first AC-only, 5kW commercial units became available.

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Past, present & future of EVs: Advanced battery technology is key to success – ET Auto

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It was in the late 19th century and the early 20th century that the commercial version of EVs took wing. The fuel to fire was added by the Brudtland Commission Report – “Our Common Future” – that propounded the concept of “Sustainability.” These were experimental EVs. Scooters India Limited, a Govt.

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Honda Plans to Launch Hydrogen Vehicle Using FCEV Technology

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In the latter part of the 1990s, we started working on the application of fuel cells into passenger vehicles before other manufacturers and in 2002, we simultaneously introduced the world’s first FCEV in Japan and the United States. We introduced the FCX Clarity sedan in 2008.

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Toyota Joins Clean Energy Partnership to Support Introduction of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles in Europe; Five FCHV-adv Vehicles to Be Introduced in Germany by 2011

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Founded in 2002, Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is an international cooperation that includes BMW Group; Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG; Daimler; Ford; GM/Opel; Hamburger Hochbahn; Linde; Shell; StatoilHydro; TOTAL; Vattenfall Europe; and Volkswagen. Toyota aims at the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles around 2015.

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DOE to award up to $184M for advanced vehicle research and development in 8 areas of interest

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The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. Such engines may incorporate novel thermodynamic cycles, but should not simply involve regurgitation of existing concepts (e.g.,

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