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Volvo sells 11 electric hybrid buses with 2 ABB automated fast-chargers to Namur, Belgium

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Volvo has received an order for 11 electric hybrid buses and 2 ABB automated electric bus fast-chargers to the city of Namur in Belgium with public transport authority and operator TEC. The fast-charging solutions are based on IEC 61851-23, the international standard for fast charging electric vehicles.

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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

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Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. The site also allows for further expansion of the plant in future. The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2

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Deutsche Post DHL Group introduces Green Carrier Certification as part of its sustainability roadmap

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To provide this, the DHL divisions Express, Freight and Supply Chain jointly developed a standardized program to access the green performance and award the various partners providing ground transport services to the divisions.

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BMW Group to lead €19.5M HyCET project consortium on hydrogen combustion engine trucks

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The use of green hydrogen produced from renewable energies could thus enable CO 2 -free long-distance logistics in the future. Not only will research into development and use of hydrogen trucks continue, but filling standards for utility vehicles and implementation of the necessary infrastructure will also be advanced.

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Umicore introducing new generation Li-ion battery recycling technologies; partnering with ACC

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Umicore, a global materials technology group, is a pioneer in the recycling of rechargeable batteries; its battery recycling plant in Hoboken, Belgium, has an annual capacity of 7,000 tons of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and battery production scrap, the equivalent of 35,000 electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

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BMW eDrive Zone function now available in several PHEV models in Europe

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The BMW eDrive Zones service, now standard in various BMW plug-in hybrid models, uses geo-fencing technology via GPS. Besides that, there are 20 other core areas of major cities in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Switching to the purely electric driving mode is automatic.

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The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine

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Transcript Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future , an IEEE Spectrum podcast, where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. But the knob that they are turning with this newest machine that is currently being built in Belgium right now is to increase the numerical aperture. And I can talk more about that later.

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