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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta.

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Volvo Buses and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have demonstrated the world’s first 12-meter autonomous electric bus. Plans are in place to test the bus on NTU campus and to extend the route beyond the university. The Volvo bus will soon begin trials on the NTU campus.

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The University of Queensland, Australia (UQ) and US-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc., The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Earlier post.).

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One of the key aspects of the ASPIRE research portfolio is dynamic wireless power transfer, a research and development area where USU and its ASPIRE partner universities have led advances for many years.

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To date, Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles have also been delivered to Clean Communities of Central New York, Syracuse Center of Excellence, CuseCar and Syracuse University's Department of Energy and Computing Management. Toyota has partnered with other organizations across New York State for the Prius Plug-in Hybrid program.

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But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. University of California San Diego ] I enjoyed the Murderbot books, and the trailer for the TV show actually looks not terrible. RIVR ] And now, this.

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—Suresh Babu, the University of Tennessee-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing. Other contributors to the research are ORNL’s Mike Kirka and Hassina Bilheux; University of California Berkeley’s Anton Tremsin; and Texas A&M University’s William Sames.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Over the past six months, Motiv Power Systems , an electric drive power control system provider ( earlier post ), has successfully run its demo all-electric bus on two different off-the-shelf battery types, demonstrating the universal battery compatibility of its electric Powertrain Control System (ePCS).

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The basis of the technology is Clostridium Beijerinckii BA 101, a mutant (non GMO) organism discovered by Professor Hans Blaschek of the University of Illinois which produces solvents (acetone-butanol-ethanol, ABE) at elevated levels. TetraVitae technology combines a proprietary organism and advanced process engineering.

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JUNE 25, 2018

A team from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center (CMU NREC) demonstrated shape-shifting wheel-track mechanisms that transition from a round wheel to a triangular track and back again while the vehicle is on the move, for instant improvements to tactical mobility and maneuverability on diverse terrains.

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A study previously issued by the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta suggested that “the choke point for the province’s oil sands expansion may not be the huge carbon dioxide emissions arising from mining and processing the sticky, bitumen containing tar sands, as is widely assumed, but a lack of water.”.

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Life Cycle Analysis will be performed by Michigan Tech University. The biofuel produced will be analyzed by a panel of petroleum refiners including Tesoro, CountryMark, Kern Oil and Refining Co. and evaluated for end-use by Honeywell, General Motors and Boeing.

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The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington. How Electric Propulsion Works In 2023, Paihau-Robinson installed the first version of their superconducting electromagnet onto an existing ion thruster at Nagoya University in Japan. C (75 kelvin).

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JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

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The 25 Chrysler minivans will join a fleet of 140 Ram 1500 PHEV pickup trucks ( earlier post ) that are being deployed to 12 partners including local municipalities, state governments, universities and energy companies across the United States.

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GM, Tsinghua University and Chang’an Auto have been leading the development of China’s V2X application layer standard with the support of SAE-China and C-ITS. In dense urban areas, electric vehicle penetration could reach 50%. ICV applications require a complete set of standards and a security network for interoperability. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 24, 2016

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have reproduced one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis using artificial molecules. Oliver Wenger (University of Basel) and Prof. Peter Hamm (University of Zurich), who jointly led the study.

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This is the first time a demonstration of Demand Response is being taken beyond lab or university studies. We have given TimberRock the ability to use Demand Response to efficiently control the charging of their fleet of Volts. —Paul Pebbles, GM global manager, Smart Grid and EV Services.

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The Regents of the University of California (Irvine); NextGen American Fuel Cell Bus Project. The Leland Stanford Junior University; Stanford University 100% Battery Electric Coach Bus Demonstration Project. The Regents of the University of California (Davis); Demonstration of Retrofitted All- Electric Transit Bus at UC Davis.

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Other project partners include PNNL; technology providers Petron Scientech, CRI Catalyst Company, Nexceris and Gardner Denver Nash; Michigan Technological University, who will be evaluating the environmental footprint of the fuels being produced; and Audi, who will support by evaluating diesel and gasoline fuel properties.

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To support the development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, GM has recently installed charging poles at Tsinghua University, the office of SAE China, a Chevrolet dealership in Beijing as well as GM’s China headquarters in Shanghai. The company plans to install charging facilities at CATARC’s Tianjin headquarters as well.

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Volvo Trucks and Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at the University of California, Berkeley recently completed a successful demonstration of partially automated truck platooning, made possible by Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control technology ( CACC ).

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The project’s joint research partners are Tohoku University and Kyushu University. The project has a total planned budget of ¥20.1 billion (US$190 million), 50% of which will be subsidized by NEDO and the rest paid for by the participating companies. Subsidies have been granted to JFE Steel Corporation, Kobe Steel, Ltd.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Specialists at STCB work closely with experts from external industrial partners, universities and institutes. The center is also helping to pioneer efforts to turn forestry, agricultural and municipal waste into transportation fuels, with a new demonstration plant being built at the site.

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The selected companies will then be invited to Demo Day in Silicon Valley around February of next year to present their business plans. The company asks all participants to submit their technology descriptions and business plans, which will then be carefully analyzed and evaluated to pick the top eight.

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The project is supported by the EUDP Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program and is developed together with Aarhus University. —Thomas Lundgaard, project manager at Aarhus University, Dept. The demonstration plant is located at Aarhus University’s research facility in Foulum, Denmark. With close to 1.4

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Less than a year after the first PowerReady project reached completion in a Manhattan apartment building, the program has supported the installation of more than 340 Level 2 chargers and 45 DC fast chargers—including the largest publicly accessible universal charging hub in the Americas, operated by Revel in Brooklyn.

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Mahindra, along with other partners, recently signed an MOU with UNDIO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) India and ICHET (International Centre for Hydrogen Energy and Technology) Turkey to carry out a 15 Hy-Alfa Demo project next year at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.

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ICHET’s aim is to support developing countries leap-frog the use of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier by helping in the development and demonstration of such technologies by supporting universities and industries. In 2005, Air Products was a key player in the opening of India’s first hydrogen fueling station at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.’s

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Vertoro is a spin-off from a public-private partnership between Brightlands Chemelot Campus, DSM, Chemelot InSciTe, University of Maastricht (UM) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). These features are later transferred to the resulting materials, fuels or chemicals, thereby greatly improving their properties.

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The tests were carried out by the University of Bath Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre (PVRC), using a Ford 1.0L The results from the University of Bath testing demonstrate that V-Charge does this more effectively than other current boosting solutions. Compared to a current 1.5L GTDI engine producing 240 N·m torque, a 1.0L

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The 38x12x13-foot building was designed by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) through the University of Tennessee-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Energy and Urbanism. Utilizing advanced manufacturing and rapid innovation, it only took one year from concept to launch.

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Further, the first demo vehicle has demonstrated T2B5 with margin without the aid of the full dCSC and LP EGR, while maintaining fuel economy above the target. The work remaining will see the full engine move to Johnson Matthey for refinement of the CSC operation, and refinement of the overall aftertreatment control strategy.

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Initiated by the Swedish company Elonroad AB together with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Lund, this research and development project is a cooperation between members from the industry, academia and public sector. The total investment is €9 million and the procurer and main financier is the Swedish Transport Administration.

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It was also the first demo flight using a combination of three sustainable biofuel feedstocks—camelina (84%), jatropha (less than 16%), and algae (less than 1%)—as well as the first one using Pratt & Whitney engines. sourced the camelina used in the JAL demo flight. Earlier post.) Sustainable Oils, Inc.

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Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Dai said his lab showed proof-of-concept with a demo, but the researchers will leave it up to manufacturers to scale and mass produce the design. Image credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney).

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Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) RoMeLa ] at [ University of California Los Angeles ] In this demo, Reachy 2 autonomously sorts healthy and unhealthy foods. This work aims to bring ownership back to artists in the age of generative AI.

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