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Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, partners demo automated, connected vehicles on I-395

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The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the Virginia Department of Transportation, and Transurban, which operates the express lanes, conducted a demonstration of automated, connected vehicles on a 10-mile stretch of I-395 for federal and state officials.

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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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Nearly 400 exhibitors representing the boldest energy innovations in the United States came together last week at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. The company is evaluating several tailings sites in the United States, including in upstate New York. The conference, hosted in Dallas by the U.S.

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Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility vision builds on electrification, autonomous drive and vehicle intelligence

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Nissan will launch multiple vehicles with autonomous drive technology in the next four years in Europe, the United States, Japan and China. An on-road demo event in Europe in 2016, will showcase the maturity of Nissan’s autonomous drive technology. Nissan Intelligent Integration.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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It will be refreshing to see an actual, crewed mission around the moon after decades of concept art, vague promises, presidential and congressional dithering.” The Gateway space station, shown as an artist’s conception, will be the first space station to be put into lunar orbit, where it will be a vital component of the Artemis missions.

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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

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In the case of the flow of heat from Earth to deep space, we’ve got a couple of promising concepts developed, although we’re still trying to figure out the best mechanism. By connecting a TEG between a hot reservoir and a cold one, the heat differential is captured as electricity.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Chevrolet to produce Spark battery electric vehicle for US and global markets starting in 2013 with A123 Systems pack; EN-V gets a Chevrolet badge

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Our global demo fleets continue to provide insight into the needs of electric vehicle customers living in urban environments. Chevrolet EN-V concept. He also told media assembled in advance of Chevrolet’s 3 Nov Centennial celebration that future EN-V concepts will carry a Chevrolet badge. Click to enlarge. Next-gen EN-V.

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