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Floating house concept earns students place in global disaster preparedness competition

Envirotec Magazine

A team of students from Coventry University have developed a concept for a house that can float whenever a flood approaches and shelter people for at least six weeks during catastrophic weather. Their rivals included MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Australia’s Queensland University of Technology.

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Gillig delivers first of 62 battery-electric buses to Florida transit agency

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PSTA’s investment also includes 15 ChargePoint chargers, purchased through Gillig’s Charging Solutions team. PSTA deployed its first electric buses (from Gillig rival BYD) in 2018. Each of the 40-foot buses sports 686 kWh of onboard energy storage. PSTA already operates 88 Gillig Hybrid buses. million rides per year.

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Second quarter food startup roundup

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Now Pivot and rivals have competition from Kula Bio , a startup that raised $10 million last month on the back of claims that its microbes can replace up to 80 percent of farms’ nitrogen use. . Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. Nitrogen compounds are heroes and villains on a global scale. emissions. .

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Tesla to open up global charging point network to all EV brands

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CEO Elon Musk confirms plans on Twitter to begin allowing access to rival EV brands at its US supercharger network later this year, with global network to follow suit. Tesla plans to open up its global charging network to allow rival brands of electric vehicles to power up their batteries in future, the company's CEO Elon Musk has confirmed.

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A lesson in innovation: VW’s Herbert Diess invites Tesla’s Elon Musk to an internal conference

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Diess himself said that Tesla has handled the current global chip shortage better than legacy automakers because its software team was able to rewrite Tesla’s software in only two to three weeks in order to enable a switch to another, more readily available type of microchip. As Electrek ’s Jameson Dow put it, we’re all on “team electric.”

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New potassium metal battery design could solve dendrite problem

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In terms of performance, this could rival a lithium-ion battery,” said Professor Nikhil Koratkar, the paper’s lead author. “In In terms of performance, this could rival a lithium-ion battery,” said Professor Nikhil Koratkar, the paper’s lead author.

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'Score for the planet': Tranmere Rovers FC vows to promote veganism to players and fans for veganuary

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founder Juliet Gellatley said the charity was "delighted" to team up with Tranmere. The announcement comes just a few weeks after rival League Two club Crawley Town announced it was taking action to reduce food waste after matchdays by teaming up with food waste app Too Good To Go. Tranmere said its new partnership with Viva!

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