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POSCO begins construction of S Korea’s first lithium hydroxide plant

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POSCO Holdings recently began construction at the Yulchon 1 st Industrial Complex in Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province, S. In 2018, POSCO Holdings acquired a package of tenements from Galaxy Resources in the Salar de Hombre Muerto in Argentina in order to secure lithium preemptively.

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Plus completes driverless Level 4 semi truck highway demonstration

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This represents a significant milestone for the autonomous trucking industry and for Plus, which demonstrated the company’s first driverless Level 4 heavy truck operation at the Qingdao port in April 2018. Plus expects to launch pilot operations of a fully driverless truck for use in a dedicated environment in 2022.

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AEye demos first commercial 360? solid-state LiDAR system

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AEye Inc has completed a successful live metropolitan demo showcasing its solid-state commercial LiDAR system with 360° vehicle coverage. AEye’s high performance system employs a dense 150-vertical-channel LiDAR scanner, paired with region of interest configurability, for enhanced ranges up to 300 meters.

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Toronto orders an additional 10 New Flyer battery-electric transit buses

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New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, the Canadian subsidiary of NFI Group, announced an award from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) for an additional ten forty-foot, zero-emission, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses. TTC New Flyer Industries XE40 Xcelsior electric demo bus.

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Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI and Qualcomm to host C-V2X trials in Japan in 2018 to validate and demo C-V2X

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C-V2X radio technology is state-of-the-art cellular technology and is being validated for global deployments, and leverages the upper layer protocols developed by the automotive industry over years of research to support new advanced end-to-end use cases.

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Nikola Motor Company hires Jesse Schneider from BMW as hydrogen and fuel cell technologies VP

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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. Jesse will be a great asset to our team. Nikola Motor Co.

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First cargo vessel operating on hydrogen to debut in Paris; commercial river operations this year

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The Flagships project was awarded €5 million of funding in 2018 from the EU’s Research and Innovation program Horizon 2020, under the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), to deploy two hydrogen vessels in France and Norway.

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