Hinduja group subsidiary, Ashok Leyland has unveiled Janbus and Janbus Midi, the front-engine, fully flat floor buses at the ongoing International Bus and Utility Vehicle Show, being held at Greater Noida in India. The Janbus is ...
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Hundreds of bus stops in the Derbyshire region are set to be fitted with LED light bulbs as a way of saving money and energy. Indeed, nearly 400 shelters in the county will have fluorescent light tubes replaced by LED lighting in order to ...
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The Tokyo government has posted nearly 300 NFC location tags around the upscale Ginza shopping district and released an Android app to interact with them as part of an experiment to help guide shoppers. The latest trial, part of the ...
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The inverter market grew significantly to $45bn in 2012, and will reach $71bn by 2020, according to Yole Développement in a report on ‘Inverter market trends for 2013-2020 and major technology changes’. “More than ...
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced full-year sales 2012 from continuing operations of CHF 6.038 billion compared to CHF 5.571 billion in the previous-year period. This corresponds to an increase of 8% in local ...
Neul has announced its first transceiver chip for 'white space' communications in 470-790MHz UHF TV bands. Called Iceni, the chip is intended for secure non-line-of-sight machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Both 6 and 8MHz ...
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Renesas Electronics has doubled the on-chip memory in its RX600 microcontrollers for networking equipment applications. The RX63N/RX631 product groups have up to 256kbyte embedded RAM and 2Mbyte flash. “The new RX63N/RX631 MCUs ...
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Digi-Key has signed two new supplier franchises military chip specialist Holt Integrated Circuits and cognitive memory supplier, CogniMem. CogniMem has developed a neural network architecture to resemble the synapses of the human ...
With a width of 5.2 mm, Phoenix Contact’s compact PTB 2,5 three-level terminal blocks provide high flexibility when wiring emergency lighting. In commercial buildings, standard lighting is often also used as emergency lighting, which ...
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According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), public transportation avoids the use of 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline annually in the United States. While public transportation can refer to a variety of modes, APTA ...
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Nova Bus, a subsidiary of Volvo Buses, has won a contract to supply 475 hybrid buses from Association du transport urbain du Québec (ATUQ), a consortium of the Quebec's nine transit authorities in Canada. The order also includes ...
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Heavy-duty transit bus manufacturer New Flyer has secured contracts from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) to supply 900 and 90 buses respectively. Under ...
Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has reported a 17.8% increase in the sales in 2012 to 173,791 units compared to the 147,653 units sold in 2011. The company has sold 34,970 units in Japan an ...
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SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) now supports plant operators even better in monitoring and control of decentralized large-scale PV power plants: Along with the highly efficient SMA string inverters, the new SMA Cluster Controller, which is ...
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Bridgestone has opened a new tire manufacturing plant in Pune, India and has commenced production of passenger car radial tires (PSR). The new plant is part of tire maker's JPY50bn ($538.8m) project, which is being executed in phases. ...