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The European Parliament decided to ban Amazon representatives from accessing its buildings on Tuesday (27 February), due to multiple events where the global retailing giant did not attend meetings requested by members of the European Parliament, the European Parliament press service confirmed Euractiv.
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Scientists at Rice University in Texas have developed a device which converts heat into light by squeezing it into a smaller bandgap. The ‘hyperbolic thermal emitter’ could be combined with a PV system to convert energy otherwise wasted as heat – a development the researchers say could drastically increase efficiency.
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This time it was not a Japanese the last soldier to surrender three decades after World War II ended, because Toyota committed to future electric mobility weeks ago, after stating officially that battery-electric cars (BEV) were not the future of transportation.
The very last one who made a U-turn was FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne, who repeatedly claimed to sell the Fiat 500e at a loss in California. Speaking at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mr Marchionne revealed an electric Ferrari supercar is in the making and even a Ferrari SUV is planned, but he didn't give specifications or a timeline for the new models.
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Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership
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Fred Lambert of electrek reports:The auto industry is once again attempting to slow down the rollout of electric vehicles.
Virtually all automakers, except for Tesla of course, have sent a letter to the Chinese government in an attempt to have them drastically weaken their zero-emission vehicle mandate.
As we previously reported, China, the world’s biggest car market, has somewhat of an aggressive ZEV mandate that would force Automakers to have zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) represent 8% of new car sales as soon as 2018 and quickly ramp up to 12% by 2020.
