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AUGUST 20, 2009

Following May’s approval by the Italian parliament, the Swiss parliament will soon vote on a draft law to redraw some high-altitude sections of the frontier Alps border between Switzerland and Italy due to “radical changes” in snowfields and glaciers over the past century. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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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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MARCH 25, 2012

The 6 th Aviation and Environment Summit , recently held in Geneva, Switzerland, concluded with the adoption of an industry declaration titled “Aviation Benefits Beyond Boundaries,” as a joint message to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

However, one of the biggest barriers to adopting robots in these industries is the challenge of navigating the rugged terrain found in these environments. In 2025, well be deploying our groundbreaking wheeled-legged robots with major logistics carriers for last-mile delivery to set new standards for efficiency and sustainability.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

26t will make daily delivery rounds of between 100 and 200 km to supply Feldschlösschen Swiss clients from the brewer’s 15 logistical sites in Switzerland. to 26 tonnes, Renault Trucks meets both current and future requirements of professionals operating in urban environments. These 20 Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E.

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JULY 20, 2022

To make this happen, the BMW Group has been collaborating with Seoul Robotics from South Korea and Embotech from Switzerland. The aim of the AFW pilot project is for vehicles to move autonomously around logistics areas and assembly safely, efficiently and without requiring a driver. —BMW Group project manager Sascha Andree.

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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. With its quiet electric drivetrain, the GV60 MIV operates smoothly in high-stakes environments.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

These are highly toxic and harmful to the environment. In April 2018, NMP was added to the list of Substances of Very High Concern, which can have serious irreversible effects on human health and the environment. However, these cathodes are manufactured by most manufacturers using organic solvents such as NMP (N-methylpyrrolidone).

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MARCH 11, 2010

The system’s social sustainability will be judged on the basis of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) guidelines for the social life cycle assessment of products.

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JULY 27, 2021

Debuting last year in Switzerland, XCIENT Fuel Cell has proven its commercial viability through more than one million kilometers of driving in real-world conditions. The first 46 units were delivered to Switzerland last year, and they have cumulatively driven more than one million kilometers, or about 620,000 miles, in 11 months of service.

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JANUARY 19, 2013

Initial funding to fast track action until the new treaty comes into force in the expected three to five years’ time has been pledged by Japan, Norway and Switzerland. Support for developing countries is also expected from the Global Environment Facility and a programme once the convention is operational.

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MAY 10, 2012

—Québec minister for Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand. Starting next year 34 emissions trading programs will serve as the primary vehicle to drive greenhouse gas reductions in Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and 27 European Union members, along with California and Québec.

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MARCH 31, 2022

The Aligned Graphite production lines can be supplied as turnkey equipment fully integrated into the state-of-the-art GWh-battery production environment. These electrodes are a drop-in replacement for next-generation, fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. Battrion is an ETH Zurich spin-off founded in 2015.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Volvo Trucks announced the start of sales of its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks ( earlier post ) in selected markets within Europe, meeting the increasing demand for sustainable transport solutions in city environments. Sales will start in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Participants of the rally will cover about 2,500 km (1,550 miles) and visit 7 countries advocating for emissions reduction and uniting Europe under the idea of preserving the global environment. The rally will go through: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, France and Monaco.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Tech United ] Autonomous manipulation in everyday tasks requires flexible action generation to handle complex, diverse real-world environments, such as objects with varying hardness and softness. Tech United Eindhoven is working on quadrupedal soccer robots, which should be fun.

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JULY 11, 2013

There are only few exceptions from this trend, notably Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal which show significantly higher GDP shares over the period (reaching 1.6% – 2.0%). Governments formulate their strategic transport plans generally around three main themes: economic performance, environment and safety.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

The two ships, each with a capacity of 700 passengers, will replace existing diesel-powered vessels and will be used to transport passengers between Switzerland and France with projected completion dates of 2022 and 2023. IP65 ingress protection allows the MRS to operate reliably in hostile marine environments.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Historical trends of (A) ΣPCDD/F, (B) ΣPCB, and (C) ΣDDT in sediment from Lake Oberaar and from low-altitude lakes in Switzerland, normalized relative to their maximum historical peaks. Ongoing work in this field may provide additional insight into the fate of persistent organic pollutants in the Alpine environment.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Previously code-named “Cascade,” the Cray XC30 supercomputer combines the new Aries interconnect, Intel Xeon processors, Cray’s fully-integrated software environment, and innovative power and cooling technologies to create a production supercomputer that is designed to scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads of more than 100 petaflops.

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MAY 25, 2009

There is no scarcity of warnings of the risk of irreversible climatic damage to the environment. CDSB was founded in January 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Against this background, it is imperative that companies supply their shareholders with appropriate climate change data.

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MAY 7, 2009

Singapore is well-positioned for the deployment of EVs due to our relative small size, urban environment, robust electrical grid and IT infrastructure. The Alliance has begun ZEV initiatives in Kanagawa Prefecture and Yokohama in Japan, as well as in Israel, Denmark, Portugal, Monaco, the UK, France, Switzerland, Ireland, China and Hong Kong.

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JUNE 2, 2010

The latest generation THINK City is a purpose-built, all-electric car designed for urban environments. First customer deliveries are taking place across Europe in selected key EV markets such as The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. million consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The sample included 16,037 adults 18-and-over, from the UK, US, DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), France, Sweden, Japan, China and India. Founded in 1970, Ansys develops, markets and supports engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will behave in real-world environments.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Schmidt, head of the Energy and Environment Division at PSI. —Brigitte Buchmann, head of the Mobility, Energy, and Environment Department at Empa. If we can manage to produce them from renewable resources, then we will also be able to synthesise all other kinds of fuel. —Thomas J.

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MAY 21, 2020

In Switzerland, retrofitting the EA 189 engine was mandatory. Cars from General Motors (Opel, Vauxhall, Chevrolet), Renault-Nissan and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles emitted almost twice as much NO x into the environment on cold days as on warm days. The NOx values for the 1.6-liter liter diesel the emissions were even 53% worse.

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JUNE 20, 2016

The GPU Inference Engine (GIE) is a high-performance deep learning inference solution for production environments. Using GIE, cloud service providers can more efficiently process images, video and other data in their hyperscale data center production environments with high throughput.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Weilenmann, Robert Alvarez and Mario Keller (2010) Fuel Consumption and CO 2 /Pollutant Emissions of Mobile Air Conditioning at Fleet Level - New Data and Model Comparison. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903654t.

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MAY 26, 2016

Now, a team from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has demonstrated the direct production of hydrocarbon fuel—specifically methane—from water and CO 2 by incorporating a catalytic process into STCs. syngas—from water and CO 2. Fangjian Lin, Matthäus Rothensteiner, Ivo Alxneit, Jeroen A.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Participating in the fleet test are ten customers from a variety of sectors in Germany and Switzerland: Dachser, Edeka, Hermes, Kraftverkehr Nagel, Ludwig Meyer, pfenning logistics, TBS Rhein-Neckar and Rigterink from Germany; and Camion Transport and Migros from Switzerland.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! JPL ] Cassie Blue showcases its ability to navigate a moving walkway, a common yet challenging scenario in human environments. Please send us your events for inclusion. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Cybathlon Challenges : 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Enjoy today’s videos! For the purposes of this test, we force Digit to fall in a controlled environment to demonstrate our new self-righting and recovering ability. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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AUGUST 8, 2013

One of IRR’s tasks in DynoTRAIN was to build mathematical tools that take data collected from different countries about the track and synthesize that data into a representative track that could be used in a virtual test environment, Dr. Bezin said.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. Shin’s RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments) drone, with its bird-inspired legs, can do jumping takeoffs just like crows do, and can use those same legs to get around on the ground pretty well, too.

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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. Modestino and Demetri Psaltis (2015) “A membrane-less electrolyzer for hydrogen production across the pH scale” Energy Environ. Resources. Mohammad H. Hashemi, Miguel A.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ACT Initiative is a consortium of ten European countries—France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom—and the United States. Re-use of existing wells, particularly in offshore environments, can potentially minimize well development costs for CO 2 storage projects.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Other actions included: In April 2009, Nissan introduced the Nissan ECO Series (NECO Series), which qualify for tax breaks under Japan’s new preferential tax scheme for environment-friendly vehicles. in the United States; and Israel, Portugal, Monaco, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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