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JANUARY 14, 2011

A coalition of 13 major Japanese automakers and energy companies—including Toyota, Honda and Nissan—are joining together to expand the introduction of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) in 2015 and develop the hydrogen supply network throughout Japan. Honda Motor Company, Ltd.; Cosmo Oil Company, Ltd.;

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JUNE 22, 2020

Class 8 electric powertrain company Hylion intends to merge with Tortoise Acquisition Corp. NYSE: SHLL), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company with a strategic focus on the energy sector and decarbonizing commercial transportation in North America. billion, at the $10.00 exercise their redemption rights.

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

Based on the recent FAA type certification of the HF120 turbofan engine and this TIA milestone achievement, we can expect aircraft type certification in the first quarter of 2015 with deliveries following immediately after. —Michimasa Fujino, president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

UK-based Lithium-sulfur battery company OXIS Energy ( earlier post ) reported developing a Lithium-sulfur cell achieving in excess of 300 Wh/kg. OXIS predicts it will achieve a cell capacity of 33Ah by mid-2015. The company says that vehicle manufacturers are already reviewing and evaluating the cell technology.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

UPS’ venture capital arm, UPS Ventures, has made a minority investment in autonomous driving company TuSimple ( earlier post ). Together, both companies are testing self-driving tractor trailers on a route in Arizona to determine whether the vehicles can improve service and efficiency in the UPS network.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

CE) has received equity investment from two global energy companies: Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation; and Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital arm of Chevron Corporation. since 2015. Canada-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE)

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JANUARY 17, 2021

TPI), a TDK Group Company and leader in inertial navigation software, and Uhnder, a leader in digital radar technology have partnered to develop a localization reference design with world-class accuracy and performance with Uhnder’s software-defined digital radar sensor and TPI’s AUTO positioning software. Trusted Positioning Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Hyundai Motor Company and Cummins Inc. The companies will also explore ways they can work together to develop next-generation fuel cell systems, and have each committed to assign a team of individuals to investigate and pursue other areas of collaboration.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Adding to the list of informally announced plug-in vehicles ( earlier post ), the Yonhap News Agency last week cited Yang Woong-Chul, R&D vice chairman at Hyundai Motor Group, as saying that the group will introduce plug-in hybrid versions of its popular Sonata and K5 (Optima) midsize sedans in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Global sales of SUVs surged 22% in 2015, supporting an overall increase in global sales of light vehicles of 1.7% in 2014-2015, according to data released by global market research company Euromonitor International. SUVs overtook lower medium cars to become the largest automotive segment in 2015, accounting for 22.9%

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Rivian VP of Public Policy Jim Chen is departing the company. Prior to his employment at Rivian in 2018, he worked for American electric car maker Tesla, where he led the company’s efforts to secure direct-to-consumer sales in various states. This was despite the company’s plans to invest $5 billion in a Georgia factory.

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MAY 23, 2013

By 2015 it is expected that more than 500 BYD electric buses will be running on the streets and roads of Uruguay. Buquebus is the largest tourism transportation company in Uruguay, connecting more than 2 million passengers in Argentina and Uruguay per year by boat and by bus.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Sales of new passenger cars and LCVs in Russia decreased by 457% in December 2015, with a 35.7% The Association of European Businesses is an independent non-commercial organization representing and promoting the interests of European companies conducting business in and with the Russian Federation.

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JUNE 7, 2021

Tesla President of Heavy Trucking Jerome Guillen departed the company on June 3, 2021. On March 11, 2020, Guillen became the President of Heavy Trucking at Tesla , which may have been a strategic move for the company given his background. He later rejoined the company as VP of Trucks and Programs.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Battery cost reductions, government funding programs and utility tenders led to a 45% increase in the global energy storage pipeline in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015 compared to the previous quarter. gigawatts (GW) in Q4 2015. According to IHS Inc., the global pipeline of planned battery and flywheel projects had reached 1.6

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MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. (A

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APRIL 3, 2015

Tesla Motors announced that it delivered, in total, 10,030 cars in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015—a new company record for the most deliveries in a quarter and a 55% increase over Q1 last year. The release of deliveries so close to the end of the quarter is a break in pattern for the company.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

George Hotz, the 32-year-old CEO of Comma AI who made a name for himself as the hacker “geohot” when he was just a teenager, announced that he is stepping away from his company on his GitHub page. “It’s well within comma’s reach to become a 100M+ revenue consumer electronics company (without raising again!),

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OCTOBER 8, 2016

Autonomous vehicle technology company Nauto has entered into strategic agreements with three major auto companies, including BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group.

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APRIL 24, 2014

The embers of life still glow at Fisker Automotive, as the company readies plans to put its Karma back on the road by the middle of next year.

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Fisker Karma Companies 2015 141

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Registration of model year 2016 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in New Jersey was up 79% over 2015, according to a recent analysis by ChargEVC , a diverse coalition of organizations and companies that support growth of the electric vehicle market.

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MAY 2, 2014

Car-sharing company Zipcar introduced “Zipcar ONE>WAY,” a new service that will enable members to take point-to-point trips within cities, and to and from select airport locations. The new service, currently being tested and slated to launch in select markets later this year, will exclusively feature the Honda Fit.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Nine of the larger manufacturers (Audi AG, BMW AG, Automobiles Citroën, Fiat group, Ford-Werke, Adam Opel, Automobiles Peugeot, Seat, Toyota Motor Europe, and Volvo Car) were already compliant with 2015 targets in 2012. grams of CO 2 per kilometer—close to the 130 g target for the average new car sold in 2015. cars in 2014, 1.5

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MAY 23, 2016

Over the past five years, the growth of electrochemical energy storage market in China has outpaced that of the global market, with a CAGR (2010-2015) of 110%—six times as high as that of the global. million in 2015, up by 3.13% year-in-year. In 2015, Samsung SDI invested KRW682.2 In May 2016 alone, nearly RMB2.6

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Chevrolet offers the 2015 Impala full-size sedan as an all-new bi-fuel model—the only manufacturer-produced full-size sedan in North America that can run on both compressed natural gas (CNG) and gasoline. V–6, with specific valves and hardened valve seats for improved wear resistance and durability with the CNG fuel system.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Tesla reported a $293-million GAAP net loss for Q2, a 59% increase from the $184-million net loss for Q2 2015. However, the company exited Q2 consistently producing nearly 2,000 vehicles per week; total Q2 production of 18,345 vehicles constituted a new quarterly production record, up 18% from Q1 and up 43% from Q2 last year.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Thirteen Japanese companies, led by Nippon Oil, have formed a research alliance focused on commercializing technologies for supplying hydrogen to fuel cell vehicles by 2015. Other companies currently in the alliance include Idemitsu Kosan Co., Iwatani International Corporation; Osaka Gas Co., Cosmo Oil Co. Saibu Gas Co.,

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2015 Hydrogen Commercial Companies 170

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

Innovators at Ford submitted nearly 6,000 new inventions for patent consideration in 2015—an increase of 36% from 2014—with many related to autonomous and connected vehicles, wearable devices, eBikes, navigation, ride-sharing platforms and other technologies.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

is close to an agreement with BMW AG to provide that company with drivetrain and storage technology for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Toyota, which has been developing such technology on its own since 1992, will be sharing it for the first time with another company. The Nikkei reported that Toyota Motor Corp. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 14, 2017

Immediately preceding the Chapter 11 filing, the company retrenched to a core R&D team by terminating approximately 80% of its personnel (several of whom have also entered into consulting agreements with the company to assist it in the sale of its assets), paused all factory operations, and stopped the marketing and selling of its products.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

With less than a year to go before the first production Tesla Model X all-electric crossover utility vehicles are scheduled to roll off the assembly line, the company has confirmed that every Model X will come standard with all-wheel drive.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Renault-Nissan will provide the EVs to Orange by 2015. The electric vehicles procurement agreement between the Alliance and Orange is part of a wider international partnership between the two companies.' Orange will use the electric vehicles mostly for car-sharing purposes between its buildings and installations in France.

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France Nissan 2015 Supplies 252

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MAY 13, 2014

On sale in Europe for the some time, the seven-generation 2015 Volkswagen Golf is about to hit U.S. Volkswagen announced pricing for the 2015 Golf range, which will start under $19,000, but just barely. The company will kick off U.S. Golf sales with a Launch Edition model priced at $18,815, including destination.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Consumer Reports (CR) said that the documents reveal that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) must do more to ensure investigations are transparent, and ensure companies communicate responsibly with the public about crash ratings. Consumer Reports at the time also suggested that.

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Companies Tesla 2018 2016 186

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AUGUST 7, 2022

The company now expects its 2022 electric vehicle revenue to grow to approximately $850 million—more than double what it was in 2021. The company paid approximately $130 million at closing, and up to $55 million could be paid in the form of contingent payments over the next three years. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Opel will expand its small car range in the summer of 2015 with the new 5-door, entry-level Karl. Carl and his brothers Wilhelm and Fritz took the company into automobiles in 1898.). Carl was the name of one of the sons of Opel founder Adam Opel. Opel, founded in 1862, originally manufactured sewing machines and then bicycles.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Momenta , a China-based autonomous driving company, has secured a new round of funding from industry-leading strategic investors and government funds at a valuation north of $1 billion, making Momenta the first autonomous driving unicorn company in China. Existing investor NIO Capital and Pagoda Investment increased their investments.

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