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Ford investing €42M in Valencia plant for new hybrid models and battery assembly operations

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million) in its Valencia, Spain manufacturing plant to support the company’s electrification strategy with a state-of-the-art battery assembly facility in addition to new S-MAX Hybrid and Galaxy Hybrid models. Ford is investing €42 million (US$46.6 S-MAX Hybrid and Galaxy Hybrid. cubic feet) for the five-seat variant.

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Dürr deploys 10,000th painting robot

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The 10,000 th Dürr painting robot is being deployed to Opel in Spain. Dürr’s first RP7 robots were delivered to Nissan in Spain in 1998, where they proved their worth with high painting quality, fast color changes and great process reliability. The new atomizers with exterior charging apply the water-borne primer paint very uniformly.

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Akasol manufacturing Li-ion systems for Daimler Citaro electric bus; Samsung cells

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Development, testing and validation of the AKASYSTEM OEM battery systems for EvoBus have run since 2015. The key factor for meeting our client’s demands on lifetime is our efficient water-cooling. Akasol believes that this is currently Europe’s largest production plant for commercial vehicle lithium-ion battery systems.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Mediterranean migration hit international headlines in 2015 when the Syrian civil war helped drive up numbers to around 1 million people. But the post-2015 rules ballooned its budget. It is a problem of the entire society.” A trickle of migrants and a flood of money. But that was an unusual year. percent to €543 million in 2021.

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Mercedes-Benz to showcase pre-production version of coming GLC F-Cell fuel cell PHEV at IAA

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The fuel cell experts have used about 200 tonnes of hydrogen in their developments tests since 2015. The only exhaust gas emitted was water vapor—1800 tonnes of it in all. The vehicles were driven on the proving grounds in Spain (IDIADA near Barcelona), Sweden (Arjeplog) and Germany (Boxberg), among others.

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KSPG awarded $342M in contracts for new compact EGR valve

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The other valves ordered will be installed in 2014 and 2015 when certain new engines go into production at the European and US plants of further manufacturers. The Pierburg cEM EGR valve is a so-called “hot mount,” able to withstand exhaust gas temperatures of up to 800 °C with water-cooling. Diesel Emissions Engines Fuel Efficiency'

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

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Water pressure in the deep sea makes human exploration of the ocean difficult. Air Force bomber and a tanker collided over Spain. In a 2015 interview with the WGBH Forum Network , Dudley Foster , an engineer who worked on Alvin , described the previous submersibles as “blimps.” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.