Magic Hat Brewing Company based in Vermont, California, recently came out with a new grapefruit IPA called Electric Peel that sends shocks of citrus hop flavors. Available throughout the year, the so-called shocks can be experienced ...
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US automobile major General Motors (GM) will pump in $245 million at its Orion Assembly unit in Michigan to launch new vehicles, creating 300 employment opportunities. With this, the investment made in the manufacturing unit reaches ...
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German automobile major Porsche has brought the curtain down on the production of its sports car with hybrid drive 918 Spyder from the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen production unit after 21 months of output. The car, which was developed as a ...
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Fisker Automotive and Technology Group (FATG), which was purchased by China-based Wanxiang last year following its bankruptcy, will come up with a manufacturing unit in California, US, to revive its Karma hybrid electric car. The new ...
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German automobile major BMW has notched up International Engine of the Year Awards at Engine Expo 2015 in Stuttgart, in recognition of its 1.5-litre three-cylinder electric-gasoline hybrid powertrain installed in the BMW i8. In its stride ...
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Skoda will introduce its car Superb Estate flaunting a trunk with 1950-liter load capacity in September. The wide-opening fifth door leads to the trunk stated to be 27 liters bigger than its predecessors when read seats are put up. ...
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After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
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German automobile major Audi braces for the exit of one of its prominent staff members heading engine development amid mounting competition from other automakers and its drive for electric cars. Stefan Knirsch, who was at the helm of ...
Three all-electric and seven electric-hybrid buses, all of them provided by Swedish automobile major Volvo, has started plying on the nine-kilometer-long Route 55 between Lindholmen and Johanneberg in Gothenburg. All the vehicles, ...
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It is learned from MIIT that 19000 new energy vehicles were produced in May, up 300% over last year, and 9922 pure electric passenger cars were produced, up 300% and 4923 plug-in hybrid passenger cars were produced, up 400% over last year, ...
Princeton Power Systems of Princeton, NJ, USA - which designs and manufactures products for energy management, micro-grid operations and electric vehicle charging - has demonstrated for the first time a grid-tied bi-directional power ...
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Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
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Researchers in South Korea have used electrochemical potentiostatic activation (EPA) to alter the hydrogen content in p-type gallium nitride (GaN) layers with a view to improved performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [June Key Lee et ...
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KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
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