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CES 2002 News: EV Trucks Wars Ratchet Up

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Maybe that news blackout at the end of the year was corporate strategy to shift focus to the volume division—Chevrolet—and its own electric pickup. Other European and Asian companies could show up and jump in as well, as we saw when Vietnamese automaker Vinfast showed two models at the LA Auto Show and then three additional ones at CES.

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Wireless charging company OLEV Technologies secures second angel round, reorganizes

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The multimillion-dollar company he founded in 2002 provided infrastructure development services for major broadband wireless corporations, a business that was profitable in its first year of operations and posted over 45% average annual growth in its first six years. MEDITECH), and member of the MIT Corporation.

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Opposed-piston engine company Achates Power raises $35.2M in Series C Financing; new industry advisory board

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The company also announced the formation of a new Industry Advisory Board, and its selection as a semi-finalist in the Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Energy Security Prize. The company says that the Series C funding and Industry Advisory Board formation will help accelerate its product development and commercialization efforts.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s. inch floppy disk.

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Nevs in strategic cooperation with China’s State Grid for EVs

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State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) was established as a state-owned enterprise on 29 December 2002. As the largest public service company in the world, SGCC ranked 7 th on Fortune Global 500. is a wholly owned subsidiary company of State Grid Corporation of China. million employees.

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NanoSteel and AK Steel win Platts Breakthrough Solutions Of The Year award

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NanoSteel, a developer of nanostructured steel materials, and the company’s joint development launch partner, AK Steel Corporation, have won the Platts Global Metals “Breakthrough Solution of the Year” Award. NanoSteel is a privately held company funded by lead shareholders EnerTech, Fairhaven Capital, and GM Ventures.

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AvtoVAZ launches 3 concepts at Moscow Motor Show; collaboration with Renault-Nissan

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AvtoVAZ, the largest automaker based in Russia, a part of Rostec Corporation, introduced three new LADA concept cars at the Moscow International Motor Show 2014. While international sales declined in recent years, Russia was able to export more than 38,000 assembly kits to Egypt between 2002 and 2013.

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