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Each vehicle will be equipped with enormous 130kw/h batteries – giving them a 100-mile range and a capacity equivalent to around six Nissan Leafs. The buses will receive regular top-up charges throughout the day from the three wireless charging points installed along the routes. Charge pads on the underside of each bus will sync wirelessly with pads installed under the road, in a process known as induction charging. Drivers will park over the pads for their 10-minute break, replenishing two thirds of the electricity used to cover the 12.5-mile route without interrupting the timetable. The consortium of companies behind the scheme – which include bus manufacturer Wrightbus, wireless charging firm Arup, bus operator Arriva and Milton Keynes Council – believe that the switch from diesel to electric will cut tailpipe emissions by around 500 tonnes every year. Running costs will also be slashed, as annual fuel costs for a diesel bus are around £23,000 per year compared to an estimated £10,000 for an electric one. And maintenance costs will be lower, too.

Because LEDs are particularly well-suited to digital control, many building owners will decide to incorporate additional lighting intelligence – including photosensors, dimming ballasts, dimming controls, and the communications and interfaces necessary to tie controls to a building management system – while they are in the process of re-lamping.

Thinking about 3-D printing, it might be best just to think about it in terms of a machine like a CNC 5-axis mill.. It can machine out and create amazingly intricate parts, it takes a huge amount of technical expertise to run one properly, it's rather expensive, and the output is relatively slow. It's perfect for doing products that are expensive or don't have to be mass-produced. If you need mass-production, (for metal) it's better to stamp out parts and form them in a secondary process..

Auto manufacturers have ambitious sustainability targets in addition to the desire to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. They want to know they are sourcing the most sustainable products for today’s green consumer. This means that the aluminium industry must, for example, learn how to increase the recycled content in automotive alloys to help car companies meet their own recycling objectives. Buying-back the offcuts from the automakers’ sheet metal stamping process is one key way of closing the recycling loop.

The European Commission’s proposal is supposed to deliver more cross-border electricity transmission.It is an extension of the current system of national-welfare centred regulations, a system which does not target the optimisation of the EU electricity network, and as such is inconsistent with a truly single market. However, the integrated first-best solution – a single European system operator, regulated by a single regulator, which develops the network in coordination with generators and consumers – appears politically infeasible. To overcome this, we propose a bold blueprint for a European system to fund andincentivise infrastructure development. The approach is fourfold: (1) implement vertical unbundling; (2) add a European system-management layer; (3) establish a stringent planningprocess; and (4) phase-in European cost-sharing.

“We are very proud that, following a Europe-wide tender process, Infrabel has awarded Nexans the contract to supply most of its 1 kV power distribution cables for the next two years. This will amount to more than 5’300 km of cables, 90 percent of which will be manufactured by our Belgian units. The remaining 10 percent will be produced by other Nexans plants across Europe,”

The new anode material is produced through proprietary manufacturing processes and uses the Company’s xGnP® graphene nanoplatelets to stabilize silicon particles in a nano-engineered composite structure.

Boeing Dreamliner 787, an aircraft that was considered as a preferred choice for civil aviation almost a week back. But, the recent fire in this Dreamliner series has sparked many questions on the process of assembling and constructing an aircraft through advanced technology. Nearly 50 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft are in operation across the World, the recent fire has raised lot of speculation and doubts on the performance of lithium-ion batteries in automotive and industrial applications. This incident has opened a new page in the lithium-ion battery space, to rethink about the safety of this battery when used in higher capacities of KW and MW scale.

Copper scrap input across the primary copper and recycling business units totalled 84,000 tonnes, up year-on-year from 71,000 tonnes in 2011. The company’s scrap processing facilities were fully supplied during the period, as China showed only “moderate” demand for copper scrap and high prices oiled supply in Europe.