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DECEMBER 27, 2016

At CES 2017, TriLumina ( earlier post )—a spin-out from Sandia National Laboratories—will demonstrate , in collaboration with LeddarTech ( earlier post ), an innovative 256-pixel, 3D LiDAR solution for autonomous driving applications powered by TriLumina’s breakthrough laser illumination module and LeddarTech’s LeddarCore ICs.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Gläserne Manufaktur began building the Volkswagen e-Golf back in April 2017. billion is being invested in Zwickau to become the first pure-play MEB plant and the largest competence center for e-mobility in Europe. The plant is evolving into a “Center of Future Mobility”.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

KHI) will build the first ocean-going ships to carry liquefied hydrogen (LH 2 ), with plans for a demonstration test by 2017 in which liquefied hydrogen will be shipped from the state of Victoria in Australia to Japan. The Nikkei reports that Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

mile urban and highway combined public route in Las Vegas for CES 2017. We will demonstrate the capability of the CSLP solution in our intensive drive at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Earlier post.). —Glen De Vos, vice president of services for Delphi.

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JULY 9, 2023

A pilot plant was manufactured in South Korea in 2017 with a capacity of 2,500 tons / year of lithium; this was then brought to and installed in Argentina. POSCO Group’s lithium brine demo plant in Argentina. POSCO developed its own extraction technology for lithium in 2010.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Renesas will showcase its own fully autonomous vehicle prototypes—featuring the R-Car H3 SoC ( earlier post )—at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Renesas will offer short rides in the autonomous vehicles at a short track adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

NAVYA has a range of two autonomous vehicles: the AUTONOM SHUTTLE, launched in September 2015, of which more than 100 have already been produced as of today and 89 sold in 17 countries and the AUTONOM CAB, unveiled in November 2017 and whose first road tests will start shortly.

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MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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MAY 25, 2017

Ricardo launched its vehicle emission measurement service in April 2017. Ricardo demonstrated its new real-world driving emissions measurement service ( earlier post ), and discussed the first results from its road side vehicle monitoring research, at the Air Quality & Emissions Show (AQE) in the UK earlier this week.

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Announced in late 2017, the car was initially scheduled for release in 2020, but CEO Elon Musk pushed the date back, citing the need to focus on developing other models. He went on to say that the car is a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX, claiming that it could be “the most mind-blowing product demo of all time.”

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The Raceland demonstration plant is scheduled to start production early 2017. These sugars will be converted and upgraded for applications in, for example, food and personal care.

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JULY 30, 2018

In March 2017, the Belgian organization WaterstofNet received approval for the €3.52-million million () project ‘ H2-Share ’ from Interreg North-West Europe (NWE). TNO, the Netherlands Organization for applied scientific research TNO, has now joined in this partnership as an evaluation partner.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Overall, Budget 2017 proposes to invest C$21.9 The Government of Canada will invest C$120 million (US$89 million) to deploy infrastructure for electric vehicle charging and refueling stations for alternative fuels such as natural gas, as well as to support technology demonstration projects. billion (US$16.4 million (US$436.7

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Butagaz, a leading French brand distributing gas in bottles and tanks, is partnering with Global Bioenergies to incorporate batches of bio-isobutene produced at Global Bioenergies’ demo plant as early as 2017 and later by the first commercial bio-isobutene plant once built in France.

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JUNE 7, 2016

General Motors demonstrated for the first time in China its latest version of connected vehicle (V2X) technology, including Intersection Collision Alert and Emergency Brake Alert, at the National Intelligent & Connected Vehicle Test Demo Base in Shanghai. It will support more than 100 programs by the end of 2017.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

SONDORS Electric Car Company unveiled its three seat, three wheel, all electric vehicle at the 2017 LA Auto Show. The central rear wheel of the demo vehicle at the show is powered by a ProteanDRIVE PD18 in-wheel motor.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Volvo Cars’ Drive Me project, which will feature 100 autonomous cars, will start rolling on selected roads around Gothenburg by 2017. Volvo Car Group demonstrated its autonomous driving technology ( earlier post ) to media and decision makers in Beijing today; Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven joined the event.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Since the announcement of trials in February 2017, Groupe PSA and Qualcomm Technologies have been testing C-V2X technology based on 3rd Generation Partnership Program’s (3GPP) over 5.9 C-V2X directly connects vehicles to each other (V2V), to pedestrians (V2P), and to roadway infrastructure (V2I), and to the network (V2N).

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JULY 8, 2017

Eudy and Jeffers (2017). Leslie Eudy and Matthew Jeffers (2017) “Foothill Transit Battery Electric Bus Demonstration Results: Second Report” NREL/TP-5400-67698. An apples-to-apples comparison of fuel cost—i.e., per mile, including $0.04 per mile reflecting the expected energy loss of approximately 10% during charging.

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APRIL 11, 2018

On 15 November 2017, Nikola and Nel announced the exclusive partnership and a purchase order for two demo hydrogen refueling stations for Nikola’s trucks. The additional purchase order brings the total value for the demo stations to approximately $9 million, with delivery in the second half of 2018 and into 2019.

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Initially unveiled in late 2017 during the Tesla Semi’s unveiling, the Roadster was announced with a target availability date of 2020. Among these is the fact that the new Roadster would be the product of Musk’s two largest companies — Tesla and SpaceX.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The demo e-bus and charging infrastructure from Nova Bus is scheduled to travel across the US in the Fall of 2017 and to encourage transit authorities to “get on the bus”; contributing to the electrification of urban transit. Electric bus systems based on the OppCharge interface are being implemented in more than 12 countries.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The start-up of the Dunkirk plant is scheduled for 2017. Bionext has just awarded the construction contracts for the main packages at Total’s Dunkirk site to the French SMEs Prosernat (for syngas treatment) and RBL-REI (for feedstock preparation) and to ThyssenKrupp-Industrial Solutions for the gasification unit and overall site integration.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

31, Demo-2 astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for bravery from @VP Kamala Harris. Behnken and Hurley inspect Dragon hardware in 2017. SpaceX) Behnken and Hurley were assigned to Dragon Demo-2 in 2018. NASA) Demo-2 lifts off with Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.

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JULY 11, 2013

The project has a goal of meeting 2007 EPA emission standards for particulate emissions by 2017 for all drayage trucks serving the Port’s marine container terminals, estimated at more than 2,000 vehicles.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Honda unveiled its Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem concept at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, connecting artificial intelligence, robotics and big data to transform the mobility experience of the future. These demonstrations will be the first conducted with infrastructure partners Gilbarco Veeder-Root (fuel pumps) and IPS Group (smart parking meters).

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The third version of the UCB was recently released and is on display at CES 2017 in the AGL Demo Suite at the Bellagio Hotel. Daimler is the tenth automaker to join AGL and will actively contribute to developing the Unified Code Base (UCB), AGL’s connected car platform. Earlier post.)

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JULY 29, 2015

Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies, said that the company should approach commercial performances at demo plant scale by mid-2017, allowing it to launch the construction of the first bio-isobutene commercial plant (IBN-One). —Romain Chayot, head of the metabolic engineering department ( Earlier post.).

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MAY 16, 2018

The process is presently operated at demo-plant scale using first generation feedstocks, such as sugar beet sucrose or wheat glucose. In 2017, Global Bioenergies acquired Syngip, a small Dutch company involved in third-generation processes ( earlier post ). For that, GBE is receiving funding amounting to €5.7 million (US$7 million).

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Scott Keogh, President of Audi of America and Jen-Hsun Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, announced their companies’ newest collaboration during the opening keynote of CES 2017. Earlier post.). To showcase their progress, Audi and NVIDIA developed an Audi Q7 piloted driving concept vehicle.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Maersk’s investment will be used to develop further and to commercialize Vertoro’s patented liquid lignin technology, and it will enable Vertoro to build a demo plant, which will become operational in 2022. These features are later transferred to the resulting materials, fuels or chemicals, thereby greatly improving their properties.

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APRIL 2, 2015

The demonstration plant is the final scale-up of the OCM process technology and paves the way for Siluria to deploy commercial-scale plants in the 2017/2018 timeframe. This milestone marks the world’s first large-scale production of ethylene directly from natural gas through Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM). Earlier post.)

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JULY 7, 2018

The next step is to introduce a demo fleet of electric buses into everyday use in various European cities before series production of the battery electric version of the new MAN Lion’s City can finally get under way. —Joachim Drees, Chief Executive Officer of MAN Truck & Bus AG.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The third version of AGL’s connected car platform, the Unified Code Base (UCB), will be on display at CES 2017 in the AGL Demo Suite at the Bellagio Hotel.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

At CES 2017, LeddarTech will be showcasing 2D and 3D high-resolution LiDAR solutions for autonomous driving applications based on its next-generation LeddarCore ICs and developed with the collaboration of leading-edge suppliers and partners from the newly-established Leddar Ecosystem. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 1, 2017

The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billion (US$238 million), realizing a 60-70% cost reduction per MW from the Hywind demo project in Norway. Production start is expected in late 2017. The wind farm will power around 20,000 households. Statoil is proud to develop the world’s first floating wind farm.

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