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The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. in 2017 to 119,821 units. of the overall new car market in 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

became the first company to fly an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign. Data from industry leaders like Joby is critical for NASA’s research activities and future standardization of emerging aircraft configurations. Joby Aviation, Inc.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

In its Fuel Cells Annual Report 2012 , Pike Research forecasts that the fuel cell industry—including all applications in the stationary, portable, and transport sectors— will reach $15.7 billion in 2017. Due to a jump in orders in 1Q 2012, the industry is on target to surpass the billion-dollar mark by the end of 2012.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy ( earlier post ) has closed out a £3.5-million LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. For a small yet disruptive technology company like LiNa Energy, this funding is critical.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

The Nikkei reports that Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. KHI) will build the first ocean-going ships to carry liquefied hydrogen (LH 2 ), with plans for a demonstration test by 2017 in which liquefied hydrogen will be shipped from the state of Victoria in Australia to Japan. KHI’s view of a “CO 2 -free hydrogen chain”. Source: KHI.

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Japan Hydrogen 2017 Transportation 351

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JANUARY 25, 2019

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the Battery Cell Research Production Center, a new R&D and large-scale industrial manufacturing plant for lithium-ion cells; the center will receive an investment of €500 million. In addition, the company maintains a research and development group in Itzehoe.

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Li-ion Germany Lithium Ion Manufacturer 312

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Cyber hacks might cost the auto industry roughly $24 billion within five years, according to a new study by Upstream Security , which specializes in cloud-based security protection. billion, while we are seeing that the cost for the industry as a whole could reach $24 billion by 2023. Just one cyber-hack can cost an automaker $1.1

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MAY 9, 2017

China-based automobile manufacturer Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC Group), the parent company of GAC Motor, has begun construction of a large industrial park for electric and intelligent vehicles as part of its efforts to boost its electric vehicle business. The company ranked 5 th among all brands in J.D. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation have invested in Aurora to accelerate development of autonomous vehicle technologies. With the new investment, the companies have agreed to expand research to a wide range of models and to build an optimal platform for Hyundai and Kia’s autonomous vehicles. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 31, 2018

shale companies, and found that “despite rising prices most firms under our study are still in losses with no signs of improvement.” The average return on asset for US shale companies “is still a measly 0.8 percent,” the financial services company wrote in its report. Not everyone is posting poor figures.

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Industrial Industry Oil 2017 207

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company. The first cell of Northvolt Ett represents a milestone which Northvolt has been working towards since the gigafactory was announced in 2017.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Sweden 447

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MAY 14, 2023

Specifically, ProLogium’s objective is threefold: To put down roots in Europe; To mass-produce next-generation batteries for EVs; and To support the energy transition of the EU automotive industry, as ICE car sales will be banned by 2035.

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France Building Taiwan Batteries 540

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APRIL 10, 2019

million) industry-backed research hub was supported by the Federal Government. The Future Battery Industries CRC will address the existing gaps in the nation’s capacity to respond to this growth industry by creating opportunities to process, manufacture and deploy batteries, delivering an estimated $2.5

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Australia Industrial Industry Future 220

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JANUARY 4, 2018

General Motors and its joint ventures sold more than 4 million vehicles in China for the first time in 2017. The company benefited from record domestic sales by the Cadillac, Buick and Baojun brands. In 2017, GM added 18 new and refreshed models in China. Its sales for 2017 as a whole were up 4.2% turbocharged engines.

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The company has also created three new industry-focused large models—one for the electric power industry, one for banking, and another one for aerospace —by fine-tuning the company’s ERNIE 3.0 Titan model with industry data and expert knowledge in unsupervised learning tasks.

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Industrial Industry China Chinese 100

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

General Motors announced it will transition to a national sales company in Australia and New Zealand. The company will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing and significantly reduce its engineering operations in Australia by the end of 2017. The Australian automotive industry is heavily trade exposed.

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Australia 2017 GM Manufacturer 199

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APRIL 7, 2021

EODev—along with its partners—is positioning itself as a leading European designer, assembler and distributor zero-emission energy systems on an industrial scale. Both companies worked together to develop hydrogen products around the Toyota modular fuel cell system. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Hydrogen Toyota Europe Motor 532

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

have established a partnership to provide platform services for the taxi industry. The company continues to apply its big data capabilities to increase taxi drivers’ work efficiency and income. In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1 Didi Chuxing, the world’s leading mobile transportation platform, and SoftBank Corp.

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Taxi Japan Industrial Industry 186

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JULY 27, 2017

Cypress Semiconductor announced that global automotive supplier DENSO Corporation has selected Cypress’ Traveo automotive microcontroller (MCU) family and FL-S Serial NOR Flash memory family to drive the advanced graphics in its instrument cluster for the 2017 Toyota Camry. The DENSO instrument cluster has 4.2-

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APRIL 16, 2018

The partners from industry and power generation will use this facility to research into future breakthrough technologies which are needed to meet global climate goals over the long-term. After the launch of the project at the beginning of 2017, construction of the pilot facility at the voestalpine site in Linz has now accelerated.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Green 240

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a result of discussions that began in May 2017, eleven companies in Japan have signed an agreement to form a new company in the spring of 2018 aimed at the full-fledged development of hydrogen recharging stations (HRS) for fuel cell vehicles (FCV). The company will aim to complete its mission in 10 years.

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Hydrogen Companies Japan Recharge 150

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Series A funding will allow the company to scale-up production via a multi-MWh roll-to-roll facility, which will be fully constructed and installed by the end of 2018 and fully operational in 2019. Sanoh Industrial Co., A few months earlier, in September 2017, A123 Systems also announced its investment in Solid Power.

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Lithium Ion Hyundai Power Powered 186

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APRIL 11, 2018

A noted hydrogen and fuel cell expert, Schneider is an automotive industry veteran who spent most of his career working for BMW and Mercedes-Benz. We are excited to introduce industry veterans into our company structure to help prepare for the manufacturing rollout. —Trevor Milton, CEO, Nikola Motor Company.

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Hydrogen Phoenix BMW Companies 231

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JULY 31, 2017

BASF SE plans to establish a new Group company, BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH, as of 1 September 2017. The company will work closely with researchers and application engineers from BASF and external partners, such as universities and potential customers, in order to develop the right solutions for a wide array of requirements.

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MAY 18, 2016

The proposed volume requirements and associated percentage standards for are for calendar year 2017 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. Total renewable fuel volumes would grow by some 690 million gallons between 2016 and 2017. Proposed 2017 Percentage Standards. Source: EPA.

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2017 EPA Renewable Fuel 150

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In March 2017, Deutsche Post DHL Group, the parent company of DHL Express, registered a significant first for the logistics industry by setting the goal of reducing its logistics-related emissions to net zero by 2050.

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Los Angeles BYD New York Alternative Fuels 435

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Cummins and GILLIG announced the production of the 100 th GILLIG battery-electric bus built since the two companies began partnering on the heavy-duty transit vehicle. The companies have collaborated since 2019 to bring reliable zero-emissions electric buses to communities across the country. Earlier post.) Louis, Missouri this month.

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St. Louis Production Batteries Battery 415

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Italgas is renewing its entire company fleet with methane-powered vehicles from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.The first deliveries have begun in Turin, with similar deliveries to be made in Rome and Naples—two of the main cities where the Italgas Group operates—over the next few days.

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Fleet Gas Companies Vehicles 150

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MARCH 28, 2019

MAN Energy Solutions is acquiring 40% of the shares of the electrolysis technology company H-TEC Systems. The company will continue to be independently represented on the market with no change in the level of commitment to its customers. The parties have agreed not to disclose the price of the acquisition.

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Hydrogen Companies Energy Renewable 170

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

a DENSO Group company that designs and develops semiconductor IP cores, acted as lead investor and has a stake in startup quadric.io. DENSO established NSITEXE in 2017 to design and develop next-generation, high-performance semiconductor devices to advance automated driving solutions. NSITEXE , Inc.,

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MARCH 12, 2012

According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. billion by 2017, the market intelligence firm forecasts. —John Gartner. (In

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Li-ion 2017 Price Batteries 324

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JUNE 28, 2020

The €15-million campus will allow the BMW Group to develop its position as technology leader in the utilization of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry. Our goal is to industrialize 3D printing methods more and more for automotive production, and to implement new automation concepts in the process chain.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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Finland Green Coal Hydrogen 437

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AUGUST 22, 2018

the Teijin Group’s holding company in the Netherlands. Inapal is a Tier One supplier of composite components to the automotive and heavy truck industries. The company has two manufacturing locations in Portugal serving a variety of European OEM customers including Jaguar, Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Bentley.

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Carbon Fiber Companies Portugal Land Rover 170

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Ube Industries, Ltd. The JV will enable the two companies to combine their production technologies and mutually to use their technology resources including intellectual property, in order to enhance their technologies and cost competitiveness.

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Mitsubishi Li-ion China Industrial 150

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MARCH 16, 2022

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) unveiled test vehicles of its next generation eCanter at the company’s Kitsuregawa Proving Ground. After launching Japan’s first series-produced all-electric light-duty eCanter truck in 2017, MFTBC introduced an improved model with advanced safety features for the Japanese market in 2020.

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MARCH 24, 2016

Acura unveiled the restyled and refreshed 2017 MDX luxury SUV at the New York International Auto Show, adding available Sport Hybrid Super Handling-All Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) powertrain technology as a model option. The 2017 MDX Sport Hybrid is powered by a 3.0-liter —John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda Motor.

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