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Study: 15% of US alcohol-related motor vehicle fatalities involve alcohol under the legal limit

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A new open-access study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that motor vehicle crashes involving drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below the legal limit of 0.08% accounted for 15% of alcohol-involved crash deaths in the United States. In 2018, Utah became the first state to do so.

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Volkswagen bringing new board member for Integrity and Legal Affairs over from Daimler

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Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, currently Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG for Integrity and Legal Affairs, will move to Volkswagen AG in 2016 as Board Member for Integrity and Legal Affairs. She will join the Volkswagen Group as of 1 January 2016 as the Board Member for Integrity and Legal Affairs.

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Honda begins joint research with Boston University in information security for AI; secure MPC

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Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. A first research project will investigate data privacy control using a technology called secure multi-party computation (MPC).

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Blackstone may begin commercializing 3D-printed Na-ion batteries as early as 2025; testing in electric bus

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million (subject to the grant decision becoming legally valid). The Fraunhofer Institutes IFAM, IKTS, IST and the Institute for Particle Technology of the Technical University of Braunschweig will work on process validation, process development, recycling, safety and economic-ecological life cycle assessment.

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Axeon awarded funding to study recycling and re-use of EV batteries

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The Axeon-led project, which looks into the economic viability of automotive battery recycling in the UK, involves Oxford Brookes University as a partner. The project ultimately aims to develop a UK battery recycling industry for end-of-life automotive batteries, which is non-existent at the moment.

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TU/ecomotive develops waste-free car with UBQ: Luca

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Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the aim of showing the world that a hypothetical, sustainable car of the future can be a reality today. The next step for TU/ecomotive is to obtain a license plate for Luca.

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DeMoBat project developing robot-assisted dismantling for EV batteries and motors

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Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), the Clausthal Environmental Technology Research Center (CUTEC), the KIT (IIP & WBK), the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) are working in this research project, which is funded by (..)

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