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World premier of the Audi e-tron FE04 and tests in Valencia The vehicle that will take to the track in Season 4 has been under development with the technology partners since November 2016. Audi together with world champion di Grassi presented the corporation’s first purely electric racing car at the world premier in Neuburg. The new racing car for the coming season with the illustrious name Audi e-tron FE04 has a completely newly developed drive train with just one gear. A progressive new design in the primary colors of white, metallic green and black, immediately makes the Audi e-tron FE04 stand out from other cars. On the day of the team presentation, a new chapter will begin in Daniel Abt’s career. Abt will officially become an Audi factory driver and the former FIA WEC world champion Allan McNish will become team manager of the new Formula E racing team. So the fourth Formula E season promises to be even more exciting. The race series originally started with the same car for all teams, but with each season more areas were opened up giving teams optimization opportunities through their own innovations.

Extensive tests are currently in progress in Valencia before all four Audi e-tron FE04’s set off on their journey to Hong Kong at the beginning of November for the start of the new Season on 2 December at 4pm local time. Technological support Würth Elektronik eiSos managed to put innovative solutions onto the race track in the past. For example, high current ‘REDCUBE’ terminals have been installed on the inverter boards since the second season. In the third season, Würth Elektronik eiSos and ABT Sportsline jointly optimized the backup battery for the cockpit. The associated battery charger was also jointly developed as part of the technology partnership. Würth Elektronik eiSos views the fact that it can be specifically involved in the development of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Team racing car as an outstanding opportunity to deploy components under extreme conditions and to advance solutions for eMobility. Picture: Ready to go: The Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Team is looking forward to the new fourth season 2017/2018 of the Formula E racing series.

Microsoft, GE sign agreement on new wind project in Ireland Microsoft commitment will add 37 megawatts of clean energy to Irish grid.

these batteries can be used to capture and store excess energy, and then provide it back to the grid as needed. This provides more predictable power to an increasingly green Irish grid, by smoothing out peaks and valleys in wind production. This will better enable intermittent clean power sources like wind energy to be

Microsoft Corp. announced a new wind energy agreement in Ireland. With the agreement, Microsoft will become one of the first multinational technology companies to support a new wind project in Ireland. Microsoft is entering into a 15-year

added to the Irish grid. This will be the first deployment of battery integration into wind turbines to store energy in Europe. “Microsoft is proud to be deepening our long history of investment and partnership in Ireland with this agreement,” said Christian Belady, general manager, Datacenter Strategy at Microsoft. “Our commitment will help bring new, clean energy to the Irish grid, and contains innovative elements that have the potential to grow the capacity, reliability and capability of the grid. This will make it easier to incorporate new clean power sources like wind energy, and that

power purchase agreement (PPA) with GE to purchase 100 percent of the wind energy from its new, 37-megawatt Tullahennel wind farm in County Kerry, Ireland. The agreement will help support the growing demand for Microsoft Cloud services from Ireland. As part of the deal, Microsoft also signed an agreement with Dublin-based energy trading company ElectroRoute; it will provide energy trading services to Microsoft. In addition to producing energy, the project will produce valuable data on energy storage. Each turbine will have an integrated battery; Microsoft and GE will test how

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