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Vinfast plans to build EVs in North Carolina starting in 2024

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Vietnamese automaker Vinfast on Tuesday announced a North Carolina EV factory, aiming to start production in 2024. First reported by local newspaper The News & Observer and subsequently confirmed by Vinfast, the factory will be located at Triangle Innovation Point "megasite" in Chatham County, near the state capital of Raleigh.

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VG Energy contracts BioProcess Algae to verify lipid trigger process for commercial production

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has retained alternative energy producer BioProcess Algae, LLC to verify on a large scale promising lab results of a process to increase lipid production in algae. Karen Newell Rogers, the Raleigh R. When the process was applied to algae cells in the lab, extractable lipid, or fat, production was increased by a minimum of 300%.

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BASF to concentrate plant biotechnology activities on main markets in North and South America

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The headquarters of BASF Plant Science will be moved from Limburgerhof, Germany, to Raleigh, North Carolina. Research and development activities will be concentrated mainly in Raleigh, Ghent, Belgium and Berlin, Germany. Regulatory approval processes which have already started will be continued.

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Ford begins production of 2012 Focus Electric at Michigan Assembly, C-MAX models on deck

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Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.;

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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UPS, Matternet to transport medical samples via drone in first FAA-sanctioned use of a drone for routine revenue flights in US

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The program is taking place at WakeMed’s flagship hospital and campus in the Raleigh, N.C., UPS partnered with GAVI and Zipline in 2016 to deliver blood products to remote locations in Rwanda. metropolitan area, with oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration and North Carolina Department of Transportation.

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VinFast pushes forward regardless of early setbacks

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“When people know about us, know who we are, know about our product, I think they will like it,” Nguyen stated right through a media tournament in San Diego. Nguyen spends maximum of her occasion in Raleigh, N.C., Maximum of them arrived in Would possibly and feature now not been delivered. markets.

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