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Magna to engineer and produce new off-road EV for INEOS Automotive in 2026

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Magna has been awarded a contract to manufacture an all-new INEOS Automotive electric off-road vehicle, expected to start production in Graz, Austria in 2026. Part of the development process for this new 4X4 will include a rigorous testing program on Austria’s Schöckl mountain, which is close to Magna's complete vehicle assembly facility.

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Benteler-SGL inaugurates new composites production facility in Austria

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Benteler-SGL GmbH, a joint venture between Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH and SGL Group, has inaugurated its new production facility in Ort im Innkreis, Austria. Benteler-SGL’s product range now includes body shell components such as side. Benteler-SGL is investing a total of €36 million (US$47 million) in the plant. Beginning in.

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Frankfurt buys 13 Solaris hydrogen buses

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The Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses will be fitted with a range of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) solutions that support the driver’s work, including the MirrorEye system in which cameras replace conventional side mirrors thus improving road visibility for the driver. Each bus will also be fitted with a Solaris High Power battery.

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Audi and Krajete developing direct air capture technologies for CO2

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AUDI AG and the Austria-based green tech company Krajete GmbH are jointly developing new technologies for filtering emissions from ambient air. The recovered CO 2 is then available in a highly concentrated form as a raw material for permanent storage or for a wide range of industrial applications.

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Stadler wins contracts for up to 120 battery-powered trains, 25 hydrogen trains

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They are intended for use in the eastern region in Austria, where they will replace the current diesel fleet. The vehicle has an operating range of around 100 kilometers. This means that the regional train can be battery operated on almost all of the non-electrified routes in Austria, for example.

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EV startup AEHRA partners with Miba Battery Systems

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Miba is particularly well-suited to provide the type of features we wish to have in our batteries to provide optimum range and efficiency and integration with the body structure of our SUV and Sedan.

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U Vienna team finds stable metabolized TWP-derived compounds with unknown toxicities in lettuce

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Researchers at the University of Vienna (Austria) have demonstrated that tire wear particle (TWP)-derived compounds are readily taken up by lettuce with measured maximum leaf concentrations between ∼0.75 for N-phenyl-N′-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and 20 μg g –1 for hexamethoxymethyl melamine (HMMM). —Castan et al.

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