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Coca-Cola will now make local deliveries in Belgium with 30 electric Renault Trucks vehicles

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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) will start using 30 electric trucks to make “last mile” deliveries to local customers in Belgium. Through a key partnership with Renault Trucks, the beverage manufacturer is electrifying one-fifth of its truck fleet and creating the largest fleet of electric trucks in Belgium.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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And part of the change involves extending the city’s EV-charging network. “We Here the king [middle] is shown with Robin Berg [left], founder of We Drive Solar, and Jerôme Pannaud [right], Renault's general manager for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images. Amassing that fleet wasn’t easy.

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BASF to build engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethanes plants at new $10B Verbund site in Zhanjiang

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As part of the company’s plan to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site based on cutting-edge technologies, the new plants will utilize automated packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles.

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Help Not Wanted

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The tech industry’s bywords have long been smaller, faster, and more powerful. Part of the difficulty in replicating the 1.3-kilogram A suite of sensors keeps the machine properly oriented on a farm plot and instantly detects obstacles (like the farmer’s daughter) that should be avoided. Sebastian Willnow/DPA/Getty images.

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Sweden, Volvo Group and Partners to Invest $26M in Powercell Sweden AB to Advance Volvo Fuel Cell APU Work

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The company is targeting the development of fuel cell Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) in the range of 5-10 kW for heavy-duty trucks and other high-tech niche markets. Midroc New Technology, a part of Midroc Europe, develops and invests in future technologies within Clean Tech and BioMed. Powercell stack. Click to enlarge.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

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For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. It’s part of our circular business model which we adopted 23 years ago. The details have yet to be hammered out.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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Contrasting the two, Volvo is “warm and welcoming,” with “natural and humanistic” materials and style, but Polestar is “pure and minimalistic” with design that indicates it’s “high-tech and exclusive.” The overall impression we took away was of riding in a very expensive, very high-tech automotive running shoe. And so forth.