Nissan has announced the addition of ten all-electric new mobility concept vehicles to the Scoot Networks' mobility service. Also called a Scoot Quad, the Nissan New Mobility Concept is a 100% electric, two-seater compact vehicle with a ...
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Ford and St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University have entered the final phase of a large-scale research project that started in 2012 to enhance vehicle communication technology. The company aims to develop a technology that will ...
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Continental has reached an important milestone in its research project for the industrialisation of dandelion rubber in tyre production. In the autumn of last year, Continental presented the first test tyres in a limited series made from ...
With funding of about €3.9m from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 12 partners in the German automotive sector, its supply industry and the sciences (led by Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany) are ...
French automaker Renault Trucks has introduced its SmartFreight prototype application capable of providing updates on vehicular flow to heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers. The company expects the technology to minimize the impact of ...
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TA1 texture analyser (available from Bestech Australia) is used by the Scottish Agricultural College for shear force measurements to measure the eating quality of meat. Uniformity and enhancement of meat eating quality is seen as an ...
Professor Martin Kuball of the University of Bristol's School of Physics in the UK is one of 19 people to receive the UK Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK's Department for ...
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BMW Group along with electronic automotive supplier peiker acustic and network provider Nash Technologies are working on a research project dubbed “Vehicular Small Cell” to improve mobile reception within vehicles. The ...
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Asian vegetables making a home in Australian diets, latest market research Australia is known for accepting food from all cultures with open arms – and it seems Asian vegetables are no exception, according to new findings from ...
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Jaguar Land Rover has launched a research project to develop technologies that will offer drivers 360 degree view out of their vehicle. The car maker is planning to place a screen which will be embedded in the surface of each pillar ...
Scientists at the Hohenstein Institute and the Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI), both from Germany, have developed an antimicrobial treatment for wool and other textiles containing wool. Many of the antimicrobial ...
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Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the headlights on the new Mercedes Benz CLS class of cars are equipped with its Oslon Compact high-power LEDs, which can be arranged very close together in the headlight with a ...
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) for commercial vehicles will begin testing on U.S. trucking fleets in the next few months, as part of a research project supported by United States Department of Energy's ...
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BMW is partnering on MAI Carbon Cluster Management GmbH, a research effort backed by Germany's federal government, research and businesses institutions, which is working on a technology to reduce carbon-fiber production costs by 90%. The ...
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