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Volvo Cars inaugurates new battery assembly line at Ghent manufacturing plant

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Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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Next generation eSprinter electric van to be built at three plants

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Mercedes-Benz will build the next generation eSprinter electric van, which is based on the newly developed Electric Versatility Platform ( earlier post ), at three locations: North Charleston, South Carolina; and Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde in Germany. By the end of 2020, the Plant in Charleston had about 1,600 employees.

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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

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They suggest that Boeing is struggling to improve quality years after two crashes of Max 8 planes in 2018 and 2019 killed nearly 350 people. And some suppliers have struggled to adhere to quality standards while producing parts at the pace Boeing wanted them.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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The substantial early activity in fuel cell vehicles has led up to the broad goal of providing FCEVs to the general public in a mass scale starting from 2018; Hyundai is looking to have approximately 10,000 units in place (cumulative) in Korea alone (and more elsewhere) around 2025. This is planned to increase in the future. Earlier post.).

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018. FY2017 Low-No projects.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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“This year is the 25th anniversary of the first Slow Down Move Over Law, passed in South Carolina in 1996. Since 2018, there have been over 45,000 collisions with stationary roadside objects. .” If you ask the biggest danger to a firefighter, most envision being trapped in a burning or collapsing building.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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One is to do a modernized version of what we have done in the past: Build giant, centralized infrastructure. In many parts of the world, though, such bidirectional links are unavailable, and yet coordinating electricity loads is still critical, to prevent power outages caused by unmanaged overloading. There are a few possibilities.