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In their study, the Ga-In-Sn-Bi alloy-activated Al-H 2 O reaction was demonstrated to be rate-stable with a hydrogen productivity of 92% and therefore superior to similar reactions activated by Ga-In and Ga-In-Sn alloys, the authors said. Hydrolysis of active metals is a widely known hydrogen production approach. In 2015, Zhang et al.

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The Renault Group inaugurated the new “ePT-160kW” electric motor production line at its plant in Cléon. In addition, the absence of rare earths secures the supply while limiting its environmental impact and production costs.

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Motor Motors Motoring Production 259

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As manufacturers set to ramp product back up to produce everything from automobiles, airplanes and construction tools, they will begin to return to normal production cycles. This also means they will face their usual litany of production challenges. for production and manufacturing, and tungsten is among them. government.

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JULY 30, 2014

Toyota Motor Corporation’s (TMC’s) vehicle powertrain production subsidiary in Changshu, China, Toyota Motor (Changshu) Auto Parts Co., TMCAP), has begun localized production of continuously variable transmissions (CVTs), which is a first for Toyota outside Japan. CVT cross-section. Click to enlarge. TMCAP CVT assembly line.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Bentley will cease production of its 12-cylinder gasoline engine in April 2024, by which time more than 100,000 examples of the iconic W12 will have been handcrafted in the company’s Dream Factory in Crewe, England. Since the first introduction of the 6.0-liter,

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JULY 24, 2019

BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina has doubled its capacity for production of high-voltage batteries. More than 120 people will be employed in battery production at Plant Spartanburg by the end of the year. An additional 225 vehicle assembly workers received training in the production of electrified vehicles.

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BMW Production Batteries Battery 207

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. The start-up of the Celaya Plant increases Honda’s annual automobile production capacity in North America to approximately 1.92

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billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. Annual production capacity is set to grow from the present figure of 2.6 A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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MAY 5, 2020

Hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy carrier has the potential to transform fundamentally the global energy landscape—but the production must benefit the environment, according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. —Yedinak & Meidl. MT), and carbon fiber (~0.1

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AUGUST 13, 2014

BYD Auto will begin production of a new high-energy density battery in 2015 and apply them in its vehicles, according to board secretary Wu Jing-sheng, as cited by Chinas Securities Times. Shanghai Metals Market.

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From 2015 to 2019, the market share of plug-in vehicles in China more than quadrupled, reaching 5.1% Market share of new plug-in light-duty vehicles by country/regions (China, Europe, and United States) from 2015 to 2019. in 2019, according to figures presented by the US DOE. in 2018, and then dropped to 1.9%

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Axonometric diagram of the Taimyrsky mine in 2015. From Bylkov and Leonov (2015). Nornickel is also the world’s largest high-grade nickel producer, accounting for 26% of global Class I nickel production and 9% of total global production in 2020. Mtpa of ore) will gradually ramp-up in the second half of April — May.

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Production Water 2015 Installation 221

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General Motors on Monday outlined a series of major restructuring steps that it said would accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, to capitalize on the future of personal mobility and to drive significant cost efficiencies. Optimizing product portfolio.

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JULY 16, 2020

Costs for producing green hydrogen have fallen 50% since 2015 and could be reduced by an additional 30% by 2025 due to the benefits of increased scale and more standardized manufacturing, among other factors. The hydrogen produced by electrolysis is rapidly developing from pilot to commercial-scale operation in many parts of the world.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Mack Trucks, part of the Volvo Group, will begin production of dimethyl ether (DME)-powered MACK Pinnacle Axle Back models in 2015. Volvo Trucks had announced earlier this month that it would commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015.

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The collaboration aims to establish the world’s first commercial-scale production plant of 5-HMF, and ultimately to bring novel product applications onto the market based on this versatile chemical. We will contribute to its know-how in the industrialization and evaluation of the performance of these products in different applications.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Hyundai has begun assembly-line production of the ix35 Fuel Cell vehicle for fleet use; the first ix35 FCV rolled off the line at its Ulsan manufacturing facility today. Earlier post.) The vehicle will be displayed at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Two ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles will be supplied to Skåne, Sweden.

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HAB), the Honda automobile production and sales subsidiary in Brazil, plans to build a new automobile production plant with annual production capacity of 120,000 units. The new plant, scheduled to become operational in 2015, will produce Fit-class compact vehicles, for which demand is high on a global basis.

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The as-yet unnamed Cadillac will go into production in the fourth quarter of 2015 at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. Positioned above today’s CTS and XTS product lines, the new top-of-the-line Cadillac adds to rather than replaces any model in the portfolio. The model name will be announced soon.

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Cadillac 2015 Production Infinity 225

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Audi is now investing €150 million (US$200 million) in its new production facilities there. To achieve that target, the company is making large investments at its large production sites in Germany and Hungary and is significantly expanding its production network outside Europe.

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Brazil Audi 2015 Production 199

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To prepare for this growth, the company unveiled plans for two major new facilities: a brand-new building near its original automobile factory for expanding fuel cell (FC) stack mass production, and a new line in an existing plant to manufacture high-pressure hydrogen tanks. Expanding sales.

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Hydrogen Toyota 2020 Production 321

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AUGUST 28, 2012

liter gasoline engine from the EA 211 series will be produced locally as of 2015. To this end we will once again be investing approximately 1 billion euro in local production and new models. The Volkswagen Group will invest approximately €250 million (US$314 million) at the new location, where a a 1.6-liter

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Russia 2015 Engine Production 236

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From 2013-2015, Ford of Europe will increase total EcoBoost gasoline engine production by 35%. At the Geneva Motor Show, Ford introduced the European production version of the all-new EcoSport ( earlier post ). Ford’s family of EcoBoost engines applied in Europe currently includes the 1.0-liter liter three-cylinder and the 1.6-

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ExxonMobil has started oil production from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first discovery of hydrocarbons, which is well ahead of the industry average for deepwater developments. Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited is operator and holds 45% interest.

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Guyana Oil Production 2015 221

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The BMW Group is investing around €200 million in its Munich plant in preparation for series production of the BMW i4 electric vehicle, which will be manufactured at the company’s headquarters starting in 2021. Since 2015, the Munich plant has also been preparing for the start of the seventh generation of the BMW 3 Series.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

HATC), Honda’s automobile production and sales subsidiary in Thailand, plans to build a new automobile production plant with an annual production capacity of 120,000 units. HATC is planning to make an additional investment to increase the annual production capacity of the existing plant to 300,000 units in 2014.

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Thailand Automobile 2015 Honda 218

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Pike anticipates that the Asia Pacific region will continue to be the global leader in both Li-ion production and consumption in the transportation industry, with support by major governments for aggressive goals in plug-in vehicle (PEV) production, creation of charging infrastructure, and incentives for consumer purchases.

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USA Rare Earth is currently evaluating options for the location of the plant, which will become the first neo magnet manufacturing plant in North America since the Hitachi facility ceased operations in 2015. This does not include magnets in finished and semi-finished products that are imported. Geomega Resources Inc., Earlier post.)

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in production logistics. Logistics is the heart of our production system. —Jürgen Maidl, head of Logistics for the BMW Group production network. Around 1,800 suppliers at more than 4,000 locations deliver more than 31 million parts to the 30 BMW Group production sites worldwide every day. Logistics robot “PickBot”.

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BMW Industrial Industry Production 278

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Product supplied to the US market as well as inventories and exports are also at relatively high levels. Weekly US refinery runs have exceeded 17 million b/d only 24 times since EIA began publishing the data series in 1990, and all of those instances have occurred since July 2015. million b/d for the week ending 2 June and 17.6

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Production 2015 Maintenance Supplies 186

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billion in increasing biodiesel and ethanol production between 2011 and 2015. Increasing ethanol production will be a priority, and receive a total of $1.9 billion of the investments (76% of the amount set aside for production). billion gallons US) in 2015, or a 12% national market share. This amount is part of $4.1

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2015 Brazil Production Portugal 247

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Honda Motor’s cumulative worldwide motorcycle production reached the 300 million-unit milestone in September 2014. A Gold Wing 40 th Anniversary Edition produced at Kumamoto Factory, Honda’s primary motorcycle production plant in Japan, became the 300 millionth motorcycle that Honda produced globally. 1949 Dream D. 1949 Dream D.

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Motorcycles Honda Global Production 252

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In December 2012, Hyundai will begin production of the ix35 Fuel Cell crossover vehicle at its Ulsan manufacturing facility in Korea, with a target of building up to 1,000 vehicles by 2015. The program was launched in 1998 with a roadmap targeting series production of fuel cell vehicles by the end of 2012 and consumer sales by 2015.

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Hyundai 2015 Fuel Production 261

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

According to the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2015 total petroleum production exceeded all US transportation sector petroleum consumption. The EIA expects petroleum production to be greater than transportation consumption through 2040.

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Transportation Production Oil 2009 186

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million in funding in fiscal year 2015 will be made available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative ( BRDI ) to support feedstock development, biofuels and biobased products development, or biofuels development analysis. Biofuels and Biobased Products Development. USDA-NIFA-9008-004957 ).

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Tesla delivered 50,580 EVs in 2015 across all its markets; its Q4 deliveries consisted of 17,192 Model S vehicles and 208 Model X vehicles. Tesla said that its Model X deliveries are in line with the very early stages of production ramp. 507 Model X vehicles were produced during Q4 with the remainder to be delivered in early Q1.).

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2015 Tesla 2014 Production 150

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The Nikkei reports that Toyota will invest about ¥20 billion yen ($165 million) to triple production capacity in Japan for its new Mirai fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ) to meet what it describes as strong corporate and public-sector demand. Equipment will also be upgraded at another Aichi site that handles vehicle assembly.

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