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Finland’s oldest ferry goes all electric with Visedo

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The Föri initially entered service in 1904, after the City of Turku commissioned local shipyards Aktiebolaget Vulcan to build a city commuter ferry to take passengers across the Aura River to Åbo. Mobimar oversaw the removal of the boat’s diesel-powered hydraulic motor and the old control system.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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And the highest energy density and the greatest cycle life, the greatest durability of a battery as it undergoes many charge and discharge cycles as you fill it up with energy and drive it and recharge it come from batteries that are rich in cobalt and nickel. And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The Cadillac CTS/CTS-V is on Car and Drivers Top Ten list and in the July 2009 issue Motor Trend said “ Yet where it really matters, as a performance sedan, the CTS-V soundly spanks the BMW M5. Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI). I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system.

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