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Nikola Motor names Bosch and PowerCell AB as key suppliers for fuel-cell Class-8 truck; field testing in Fall 2018

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The PowerCell S3 (100 kW) is a fuel cell stack with best-in-class power density and is primarily designed for automotive application. It has been designed to handle the entire lease period of one million miles per truck. The fully operational, pre-production Nikola Two day-cab will begin testing in Fall of 2018.

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Volkswagen targets reducing environmental impact of its plants by 25% by 2018

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Initiative, the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand has set targets to reduce for the environmental impact of all Volkswagen plants by 25% values by 2018. As part of its “Think Blue. This applies especially to energy consumption, waste volumes, airborne emissions, water consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.

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GM building new center for next-generation battery cell technology

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The Wallace Center will will accelerate new technologies such as lithium-metal, silicon and solid-state batteries along with production methods that can quickly be deployed at battery cell manufacturing plants like GM's joint ventures with LG Energy Solution in Lordstown, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee, along with other undisclosed locations.

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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

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Such camera systems do exist—including one produced by GRIDSMART , a company located just a few miles from the ORNL campus in East Tennessee. The team’s first step in February 2018 was to use GRIDSMART cameras to create an image dataset of vehicle classes. —Thomas Karnowski.

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50 by 20: Wireless EV Charging Hits Key Benchmark

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee recently announced that they have set a record for wireless EV charging. As IEEE Spectrum reported in 2018 , WiTricity , headquartered in Watertown, Mass., Their system’s magnetic coils have reached a 100-kilowatt power level.

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Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

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The Van Hool factory in Macedonia is building 900 buses this year; the factory is designed for an annual capacity of 1,000 buses. The Van Hool plant in Morristown (Tennessee, USA) is expected to start building buses from 2022. In 2018, Yutong built 60,868 buses, including 24,748 new energy buses.

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EPA recognizes Volkswagen Chattanooga with a Green Power Leadership Award for on-site generation

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The solar park contains 33,600 solar modules from JA Solar designed to produce 13.1 The array is the largest system of its kind in the North American automotive industry and in the state of Tennessee. 2018 target. GWh hours of electricity per year. 2012 baseline. 1,253 kWh/car. 1,018 kWh/car. CO 2.393 t/car.319

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