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JULY 8, 2022

billion concept for underground cargo tubes full of automated delivery carts whisking goods between cities and logistics centers across Switzerland at 30 kilometers per hour. In 2016, we wrote about Cargo Sous Terrain , a (then) $3.4 Cargo sous terrain follows a similar principle to that of an automatic conveyor system.

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Switzerland 2016 Transportation Legal 145

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a carbon-supported platinum nanoparticle catalyst that can achieve complete hydrocracking of polypropylene into liquid hydrocarbons (C 5 –C 45 ). The work provides some guidelines for catalyst design in the field of plastic hydrocracking.

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Oil Motoring Motors Motor 389

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The company’s 60 Ah cells and M2 modules are manufactured by Leclanché in Germany and Switzerland, respectively. The system is designed for installation where fossil fuel tanks are normally located but can be placed into other locations, including vehicle roofs, based on manufacturers’ preferences.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Tesla made a lot of noise about a big surprise it planned for the Grand Basel auto show, a celebration of architecture and design in Switzerland's northern industrial city. The company teased that it might show a new pre-production prototype of its new Roadster.

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Switzerland 2020 Tesla Auto 112

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Treffen in Ticino, Switzerland, Volkswagen presented the ID. XTREME has something special to offer: the driving noise was developed together with Volkswagen Design especially for the concept vehicle and is output to the outside via a sound generator in the wheel housing. At the international ID. XTREME off-road concept car.

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Concept All-Electric Cars Austria 435

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Under the JDP, WinGD will oversee combustion and injection research, exhaust aftertreatment requirements and engine concept design. With new fuels, new materials are needed and manufacturers’ involvement in design is critical to ensure that engines can be produced at reasonable costs and in a reasonable timeframe.

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Engine Fuel Mariner Diesel 370

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The ceilings set in the NEC directive were designed to reduce such adverse impacts by an agreed amount. Liechtenstein reports it has missed its NO x and NH 3 emissions ceilings, Norway its NO x emission ceiling, while Switzerland has achieved its four ceilings.

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Pollution 2010 Liechtenstein Emissions 309

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company delivered the first seven units of its XCIENT Fuel Cell, the first mass-produced fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck, to customers in Switzerland, with a total of 50 planned to hit the roads there this year. With these models, Hyundai’s goal is to achieve aggregate sales volume of 27,000 units by 2030.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In doing so, the designers are drawing on a vehicle platform that has proven itself hundreds of times over in Asia’s largest electric bus markets in recent years. Quantron AG is a system provider of clean battery and hydrogen-powered e-mobility for commercial vehicles such as trucks, buses and vans.

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Fuel Electrical Electric Austria 448

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JUNE 16, 2021

The modules are designed for a wide range of current and voltage outputs, going all the way up to 800A continuous current and for battery system voltages of up to 1,200V with its functionally safe BMS. The BMS provides several advanced energy-saving and safety features: It is designed to meet both ASILC and SIL 2 requirements.

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Li-ion Transportation Production Mariner 311

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JULY 27, 2021

Based on a design that debuted in Switzerland last year, the trucks tested in the United States will have a range of about 500 miles and a maximum gross combination weight of about 82,000.

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Hyundai California Miles Switzerland 194

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JANUARY 23, 2018

The award-winning TOSA e-bus, developed by ABB in Switzerland, is already in use in Geneva and will soon be implemented in the French city of Nantes. ABB also supplies the railway sector with innovative and energy-efficient technologies such as a traction transformer and converter made primarily in Switzerland.

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Charging Switzerland Recharge North America 268

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JULY 25, 2023

The FLIRT Akku vehicles are designed to replace the current diesel fleet and will enable sustainable operation on lines that are only partially electrified. Stadler designed and built the first multiple unit with hydrogen propulsion for SBCTA in California.

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Battery Powered Hydrogen Power Powered 351

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

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Mercedes Netherlands Electrical Electric 427

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Within the next month, Tesla will begin construction on Supercharger stations in locations to energize the corridors between Munich and Stuttgart, Munich and Zurich, Switzerland, and Cologne and Frankfurt. Tesla emphasized that this network will be open to German and other auto manufacturers that design cars able to be charged at 135 kW.

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Germany Tesla 2014 Switzerland 294

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APRIL 6, 2022

The ferry was designed by LMG Marin AS, Norway, and will be constructed at Cemre Shipyard in Turkey. In addition, it builds modules on its state-of-the-art automated assembly line, in Yverdon, Switzerland. meters design draft. The “RoPax” or roll-on, roll-off freight ferry is expected to enter service in 2024. meters long, 25.4

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Emissions Mariner Lithium Ion Battery 273

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

IBM Research has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers conveniently to charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. According to the latest statistics available, approximately 55.6%

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Switzerland Charging Plug-in Plug 210

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MAY 4, 2019

Irizar has signed a contract for 15 zero emissions electric buses and charging infrastructure for Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The energy needed for the charging stations will be generated by the Rhine River as it passes through Schaffhausen.

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Supplies Switzerland Energy Storage Electrical 207

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Model Y was named the best-selling vehicle of any type in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2022

The same is true—with much higher stakes—for microelectronic chips: How can engineers confirm that what’s inside has truly met the intent of the designers? How can a semiconductor design company tell whether its intellectual property was stolen? We were encouraged by our early success.

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Design Light Switzerland Manufacturer 135

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

sbaar V3 are designed for ultra high power mode 4 DC charging, up to 650 kW. sbaar V3 share the same design by Furrer+Frey of Switzerland, with a pantograph which lowers from the curbside station, and an inexpensive transverse 4 contact bar on the roof of the vehicle. The new design of the Opbrid Tr?kbaar The Opbrid Tr?kbaar

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2014 Charging Power Powered 236

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

ABB officially opened a new plant for energy storage systems for mobility applications today in Baden, Switzerland. The facility represents an important investment in Switzerland as a production location. Unlike in Switzerland, many other European countries still have countless non-electrified railway lines.

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Energy Storage Switzerland Battery Batteries 186

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APRIL 28, 2014

In keeping with the plant’s process development role, a fully flexible modular process design has been deployed throughout, and both conventional and novel reactor designs have been implemented. The project, which started in late 2012, has involved sourcing equipment from major suppliers in Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK.

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Manufacturer Li-ion Companies Production 231

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AUGUST 2, 2012

In a study that could solidify the trend toward construction of gigantic windmills, researchers from Switzerland and the Netherlands have concluded that the larger the wind turbine, the greener the electricity it produces. [This is a repost due to publishing system problems. —GCC.].

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Wind Switzerland Electrical Electric 253

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APRIL 28, 2015

Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland have developed a system for producing hydrogen through a simplified membrane-less water electrolysis process. The design simplicity of this membrane-less electrolyzer can facilitate mass production, especially by employing high resolution 3D printers or injection moulding techniques.

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Design Production Hydrogen Water 150

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APRIL 9, 2018

Audi designers created the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo for the “Vision Gran Turismo” competition that was launched on the market on the occasion of the popular game’s 15 th anniversary. —Audi’s chief designer Marc Lichte. The million-selling “Gran Turismo” game has long acquired cult status with gamers around the globe.

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Taxi Audi Concept Switzerland 249

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MAY 31, 2022

All these new systems benefit from the just-announced Grace and Grace Hopper designs in the NVIDIA HGX platform, which provide manufacturers the blueprints needed to build systems that offer the highest performance and twice the memory bandwidth and energy efficiency of today’s leading data center CPU. Grace CPU Superchip.

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Global Switzerland Connected Connect 259

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JANUARY 10, 2020

IONITY recently celebrated the launch of its 200sup>th charging station in Lully, Switzerland which includes ABB’s latest high-power, customized IONITY chargers. The customized chargers being supplied by ABB for IONITY are ABB’s slimmest design to date and align with IONITY’s design needs.

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Europe Financing Switzerland DC 243

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Swiss VW distributor AMAG said the registration ban has been lifted for VW commercial vehicles that were not affected by emissions manipulation, and that new vehicle models of Transporter, Amarok (Generation 2) starting in 2012, and Crafter can be registered again in Switzerland.

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Diesel Engine Design Legal 150

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MARCH 14, 2023

For Synopsys Chief Executive Aart de Geus , running the electronic design automation behemoth is similar to being a bandleader. De Geus is considered a founding father of electronic design automation (EDA), which automates chip design using synthesis and other tools. The company reported US $1.36

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Design IDEA Engine Switzerland 104

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JULY 28, 2023

Porsche earlier this week revealed more than just a first look at its lounge-like road-trip fast-charging stations, to be laid out along some top routes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Porsche Future Austria Charging 147

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JUNE 21, 2022

Leclanché SA has completed development of a third-generation marine battery system designed to support the needs of ship builders in producing 100% electric and hybrid marine vessels. The system will begin shipping in 2023 and has already been specified in several major design wins including Scandlines’ 10MWh PR24 zero-emission freight ferry.

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Mariner Battery Batteries Range 259

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Headquartered in Switzerland since its inception as the Sulzer Diesel Engine business in 1893, WinGD is a leading developer of two-stroke gas and diesel engines for marine propulsion. LNG-fueled tank design equipped with GTT’s membrane containment system. Photo credit: GTT/ Roland Mouron.

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Mariner Switzerland Gas Diesel 225

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JANUARY 12, 2023

The two nearly 195-meter long hybrid E-Flexer ferries have been designed and developed by Stena RoRo (a Stena Line affiliate) in collaboration with Brittany Ferries and will be chartered on a 10-year lease to Brittany Ferries for operation between Portsmouth, United Kingdom, and the French ports of Saint-Malo and Caen.

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Hybrid Battery Batteries Mariner 243

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MARCH 24, 2025

Debuting at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this specialized vehicle is built for rugged landscapes and harsh weather, featuring snow tracks, reinforced fender flares, sports seats, medical gear and a versatile roof rack. Watch it go through its paces in this TTAC Creators Series video from Your Future Machine.

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Switzerland Fully Electric Future Environment 57

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AUGUST 2, 2012

In a study that could solidify the trend toward construction of gigantic windmills, researchers from Switzerland and the Netherlands have concluded that the larger the wind turbine, the greener the electricity it produces. Their report appears in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Wind Switzerland Electrical Electric 225

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JULY 21, 2011

The Wärtsilä brand low-speed engines are developed, designed, promoted, licensed, marketed and serviced by Wärtsilä in Switzerland. These are located mainly in Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam), but also in Europe (Croatia, Poland and Russia) and South America (Brazil).

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Mariner Engine Manufacturer China 186