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The boat (catamarán) runs propelled by electric energy. The electric generation is a combination of energy generated by solar panels, wind turbines, hydrogen battery and diesel-electric thermal generators

The official high-level kick-off event for the Green e-Motion project took place on 31st March, 2011 in Brussels.

IBERDROLA has announced the 2nd Call of the PERSEO Awards, an initiative designed to promote projects or companies in their initial stage of development, based on an innovative technological application in the clean energies sector.

The building that will house the new university housing will be named Hypatia. With this new equipment, the Terrassa campus will have in total 297 accommodation places.

The project "Study on recycling of marine origin fiberglass and surface treatments for use in concrete" was awarded a special mention by the jury. This is a reclamation project to provide kinetic energy to crafts from a clean and alternative energy source.

A student and professor from the School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (UPC-Barcelona Tech), have patented the dAlH2Orean, the first radio control car that runs with aluminium soda ring cans, or residual parts of aluminium mixed with hydroxide of sodium dissolved in water.

"Hydrogen, the dream to shelve fossil fuels" is the article published on Informacions 240.

The award winning project iTesTiT is a technology with 5 patents that detects and predicts failures in mechanical systems such as those used in aircrafts, EV and wind farms.

The UPC School will offer next year the course "Electric Vehicles and Other Propulsion Technologies Applied to Automotive", a pioneer postgraduate programme in Spain born to meet the changing needs of the automotive industry.