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Harbour Air and magniX partner to build world’s first all-electric airline; seaplanes to ePlanes

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Electric aviation technology company magniX and Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline, announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 560 kW (751 shp) all-electric motor that delivers 2,814 N·m of torque. —Roei Ganzarski, CEO of magniX.

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Achates Power brings in Cummins veteran David Crompton as President and CEO

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He has extensive experience in the powertrain industry covering pick-up truck, commercial vehicle, military, and off-road industries. Achates Power can make a positive impact on the future of transportation and industrial power by providing a superior option to deliver high efficiency and low emissions across current and future markets.

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Bosch boosts stake in SOFC expert Ceres Power to around 18%; possible expansion into SO electrolysis

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Since signing a strategic agreement in August 2018, Bosch and Ceres have been successfully collaborating in the development of fuel-cell stacks for stationary applications. This enabled Bosch to start initial low-volume production of pilot fuel-cell systems in autumn 2019 in Germany.

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Neste, ReNew ELP and Licella to collaborate in utilization of waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and chemicals

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The collaboration is one of the steps towards Neste’s goal to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material to fossil refining, with a target to process annually more than one million ton of waste plastic by 2030. Earlier post.). Neste has two approaches to plastics with regards to circular economy. Earlier post.).

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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

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Global battery demand is expected to increase to around 14 times 2018 levels of 184 gigawatt hours, or GWh, to more than 2,600 GWh in 2030, according to a report by the World Economic Forum’s Global Battery Alliance. Moving forward to an electrified world with millions of electric cars, cobalt is not sustainable. SPARKZ Inc. SPARKZ, Inc.,

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Ceres Power and Weichai finalize strategic collaboration and JV agreement on SOFCs; range-extenders for buses

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Ceres Power, a developer of low-cost solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC)company, and Weichai Power, one of the leading automobile and equipment manufacturing companies in China, finalized their long-term strategic collaboration first announced in May 2018. Earlier post.). million) joint development agreement. Equity Investment.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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The other was to create a low-cost launcher that could quickly loft satellites into outer space. One is the AI Next campaign, which has a multiyear investment of more than $2 billion that began in 2018. One project he approved in 2003 was the US $500 million joint program between DARPA and the Air Force to develop the Falcon.

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