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Candela’s hydrofoil electric speedboats set new world record with international voyage

Baua Electric

The Candela C-8 makes use of computer-controlled hydrofoils that lift the boat out of the water, leaving just 1% of the boat in the heavy resistance water. The round trip from Sweden to Finland and back covered a distance of 150 nautical miles (172 miles or 278 km).

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US charges Audi manager with conspiracy to cheat US emissions tests; sacrificing NOx control for a sound system

Green Car Congress

The complaint cited a cooperating witness (CW1)—an Audi employee who works in Audi’s Diesel Engine Development Department—as well as contemporaneous documentation in the Statement of Probable Cause. According to CW1, and as corroborated by contemporaneous documentation, the proposed Audi 3.0

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Satellites Capture Images of Giant Iceberg Calving From Petermann Glacier in Greenland

Green Car Congress

A giant iceberg, of approximately 100 sq miles in area and with a thickness up to half the height of the Empire State Building, has calved from the Petermann glacier in Greenland, observed by both NASA and ESA satellites. Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands in 2001 (34 square miles) and 2008 (10 square miles).

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Study finds Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown role in global carbon cycle, climate

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In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels in the water that may in turn increase carbon dioxide absorption in the Southern Ocean.

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SpaceX assembles world’s largest rocket with giant robot arms

Teslarati

After multiple days of apparent troubleshooting and false-starts and weeks of proof-testing with water bags weighing dozens to hundreds of tons, the giant robot seemed to perform perfectly, pausing only once during the ascent. 10 miles away through tons of haze. The scale of #Starship is absolutely insane!

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Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

Green Car Congress

San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL.would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? An onboard water tank is used for cooling of the air. Water is pumped at 0.30

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Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

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The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. million zero emission vehicles on its roads by 2025.