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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and subsidiary Toyota Technical Development Corporation (TTDC) have agreed to reorganize TTDC on 1 January 2016, absorbing TTDC’s vehicle R&D business—which includes vehicle engineering, testing and prototype-building, along with approximately 5,000 TTDC employees—into TMC.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Carnival Cruise Line, a unit of Carnival Corporation & plc, signed an agreement with Shell NA LNG, LLC (Shell) to be its supplier of marine liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power North America’s first fully LNG-powered cruise ships.

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MARCH 2, 2018

To enable the new efforts at TRI-AD, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Aisin Seiki Co., Aisin), and Denso Corporation (Denso) have concluded a memorandum of understanding on joint development of fully-integrated, production-quality software for automated driving. We will recruit globally, and I am thrilled to lead this effort.

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AUGUST 19, 2015

Japan-based global automotive supplier DENSO Corporation will build a large 20,000 square meter test facility for the culture of Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea , an oil-producing microalga patented by DENSO. The facility will start operations in April, 2016.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Inexperienced will likely be basic supervisor of self sustaining applied sciences on the corporate, which latter date won regulatory favor to perform its self-driving truck within the U.S. Einride in 2019 turned into the primary corporate on the planet to deploy an self sustaining, electrical automobile on a crowd street.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Hyundai CRADLE, Hyundai Motor Company’s corporate venturing and open innovation business, has made a strategic investment in allegro.ai , an Israeli technology company specializing in deep learning (DL)-based computer vision. Founded in 2016, allegro.ai Hyundai said that the partnership with allegro.ai Our investment in allegro.ai

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MARCH 31, 2016

ENGIE, a global operator in electricity, natural gas and energy services markets, will invest nearly €100 million from now to 2020 to build Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) stations for filling up the European fleets of trucks with natural gas and biogas.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

The partnership will utilize DiDi’s advanced AI technologies to build ride-hailing platforms to enhance efficiency for both taxi operators and drivers. DiDi and SoftBank aim to build an open and inclusive platform that will be available to all of Japan’s taxi operators. Source: DiDi. Click to enlarge. Source: DiDi. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 2, 2013

Mazda Motor Corporation plans to increase SKYACTIV transmission—both SKYACTIV-DRIVE automatic transmissions and SKYACTIV-MT manual transmissions—production capacity at the Nakanoseki district of Hofu Plant in Yamaguchi, Japan. Mazda is strengthening its production system in order to achieve its goal of achieving global sales of 1.7

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JANUARY 23, 2019

The consortium, initially formed in September 2018, is the first of its kind to include fuel suppliers, airlines, and airport agencies in a collaborative effort to accelerate the global transition to SAF. Gevo’s ATJ has been used to power commercial flights since 2016. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo.

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Our biggest initiative was installing solar panels on multiple buildings, with all the power generated feeding into our corporate office and warehouse.” In 2016, EV Connect was one of four companies awarded California Energy Commission grants for a total of $8,875,457 in proposed funding to install DC fast charging stations.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Nissan Motor’s newly published annual Sustainability Report shows that the global automaker’s CO 2 emissions have fallen by 22.4% Last year, the company also formed a new team—Resource NESCO—to improve water usage and increase use of recycled materials 25% for newly-launched models in fiscal 2016. over the past decade.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

(MOL), Westfal-Larsen & Co A/S (WL) and Marinvest/Skagerack Invest to build six new ships, with an option for building an additional three, all to be delivered during 2016. These 50,000 dead weight tonne vessels will be built with MAN ME-LGI flex fuel engines running on methanol, fuel oil, marine diesel oil, or gas oil.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Ballard expects to deliver the stacks in 2016 and 2017. DFAC), which is part of Dongfeng Motor Corporation, a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhan. Dongfeng Motor Corporation is the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in China. Earlier post , earlier post , earlier post.).

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MAY 25, 2017

On Monday, Ford Motor Company announced the immediate replacement of Mark Fields as CEO by Jim Hackett, who had led Ford Smart Mobility LLC since March 2016. Ford also announced changes in roles for three top executives: Jim Farley (Global Markets), Joe Hinrichs (Global Operations) and Marcy Klevorn (Mobility). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 15, 2024

Generative AI investment skyrockets While corporate investment was down overall last year, investment in generative AI went through the roof. Companies release foundation models both to push the state-of-the-art forward and to give developers a foundation on which to build products and services. Google released the most in 2023.

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JUNE 26, 2023

AlixPartners predicts those manufacturers will all of a sudden building up their home marketplace proportion, rising to 65 p.c Corporations that whisk courses from what’s running for Chinese language EV manufacturers will win globally going forward, Wakefield stated.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

(OPM), a leader in advanced materials science and high performance additive manufacturing (HPAM), closed on an additional round of strategic investment from Hexcel Corporation. In May 2016, OPM and Hexcel announced an initial strategic investment from Hexcel of $15 million.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has been conducting expressway-based field testing of its xAUTO vehicle and related autonomous-driving technologies for self-sensing and network-based driving since May 2016. The xAUTO will be exhibited during 45 th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 later this month.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Nissan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, PSA Groupe, NUVVE, Frederiksberg Forsyning, Enel, Insero and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Electrical Engineering (PowerLabDK) are partnering in the Danish project Parker to develop a universal definition for grid integration for electric vehicles.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

AGC) to increase production for HFO-1234yf, a new refrigerant for automobiles with a global warming potential (GWP) of less than 1. We continue to work with our customers to anticipate long-term demand, which will be met by a new high-volume manufacturing plant we will build in Geismar, Louisiana. This GWP is 99.9% Europe and Asia.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

The share sale follows two bond issues earlier this year, a €500-million (US$521-million) bond to global institutional investors in May, and a further SEK3 billion (US$320 million) to Swedish institutional investors in November. The bonds were issued for general corporate purposes and aimed at increasing the company's financial flexibility.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Ferus Natural Gas Fuels and ENN Canada Corporation are forming a joint venture today to construct, own and operate two LNG liquefaction plants in Canada. First product is expected early in 2016. Both facilities will initially be built to produce 100,000 US gallons per day of LNG, with the ability to expand as demand grows.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

plans to produce and supply biojet and renewable diesel in Japan at commercial scale in the 2020s with support from the City of Yokohama, Chiyoda Corporation, Itochu Enex Co., The company will build Japan’s first demonstration plant for the production of biojet/biodiesel fuels in Yokohama, with operations planned to begin in 2018.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Honeywell and key suppliers will invest approximately $300 million to increase production capacity for HFO-1234yf, its low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant for mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems in automobiles. Earlier post.) —Andreas Kramvis, president and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies.

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MAY 9, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

HERE Technologies and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) intend to link their advanced location technologies for autonomous vehicles into a powerful integrated service offering for automakers. —Isao Iguchi, Senior Vice President of MELCO. The xAUTO will be exhibited during 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 later this month.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As a leading producer in the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 150 million barrels of oil each year, Shell also operates extensive onshore facilities in Louisiana, including its Norco and Geismar plants, a major training center in Robert, and corporate offices in New Orleans. Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

The fee-based 50 kW DC Fast charger will open in early 2016 and will support both the CHAdeMO and SAE Combo standards. This expansion will make commuting in an EV a convenient option for the vast majority of Honda associates in Torrance, including those without access to charging at their homes or apartment buildings.

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APRIL 12, 2017

The Consortium will focus on two core areas based on respective domain expertise: to identify protocols and standards for the adoption of AVs in real-world scenarios; and to develop niche AV technologies such as automotive cyber security, advanced autonomy and platform-agnostic AV kits through a build-test-deploy spiral approach.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Using a molecular-level filter, the new process employs a form of reverse osmosis to separate para-xylene, a chemical building block for polyester and plastics, from complex hydrocarbon mixtures. It could also reduce global energy costs used to make plastics by up to $2 billion a year. Results of the research were published in Science.

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MAY 22, 2016

At 31,000 square metres, the Ansty facility will now be 50% larger than originally planned to accommodate the enhanced R&D centre and additional technical facilities alongside the production line to build the new TX5. Joint Global Coordinators included Bank of China, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays and Société Générale.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

We are eager to transition our successful technology advancements under the MOVE program into a commercial product and anticipate working closely with ANGP in 2016 and beyond as it builds the market for ANG vehicles. David Parekh, corporate vice president, Research, and director, UTRC.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation has reached an agreement with Ford Motor Company to explore collaboration with Livio, a Ford subsidiary acquired in 2013 ( earlier post ), for the implementation of SmartDeviceLink (SDL) technology in future Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The announcement builds on that earlier collaboration.

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DECEMBER 25, 2016

Sheryl Connelly, Ford global trend and futuring manager, says there is no escaping the fact that disruption is now the status quo. Globally, consumers are finding more joy in less, and taking advantage of access-over-ownership service models. An abundance of choice in the marketplace is impacting attitudes toward commitment.

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JUNE 5, 2023

In 2016, she was named Georgia’s Women in Technology Woman of the Year for mid-size businesses, an award recognizing women technology executives for their accomplishments as leaders in business, as visionaries of technology, and who make a difference in their community.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

Their first-gen aviation automobile debuted again in 2016, and in 2020, XPeng’s Heitech introduced its 5th presen. In line with the corporate, the industrially produced model that may crash the marketplace in 2025 will do business in an extended-range possibility. The title was once not too long ago modified to AeroHT.

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