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Roskill sees recovery in lithium industry, buoyed by demand from rechargeable battery applications

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Despite the trend toward transportation electrification, the lithium industry has had a rough few years. In its new Lithium Outlook to 2030 report, Roskill notes that the prolonged downward trend for lithium compound and mineral concentrate prices has caused a difficult environment for many lithium producers since 2018.

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Plus completes driverless Level 4 semi truck highway demonstration

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Plus (formerly Plus.ai), a global provider of self-driving truck technology, has completed a driverless Level 4 truck demonstration on a highway. Plus expects to launch pilot operations of a fully driverless truck for use in a dedicated environment in 2022. Customers of PlusDrive include some of the world’s largest fleets.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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The initiative aims to improve the country’s reliance on hardware infrastructure and to become a global hub for electronics manufacturing and design. Those working in industry can be change agents and have a meaningful impact on society, such as advancing technology for humanity. India has to become a self-sustaining R&D hub.”

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Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries team up to build ships powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on natural gas

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Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a part of Samsung Group, today are collaborating to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. If the global marine shipping industry was a country, it would be the sixth-largest producer of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world.

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WHO attributes more than 1 in 4 deaths annually of children under 5 years to unhealthy environment

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The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies, diarrhea, injuries and malaria. Most of these diseases and conditions are at least partially caused by the environment, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. In 2015, 5.9

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Valeo launches global research center in AI and deep learning for automotive applications

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Valeo launched a global research center in artificial intelligence and deep learning dedicated to automotive applications. will host 100 specialists by the end of 2018 and become a global competence center for algorithm, infrastructure, learning process, validation and simulation in artificial intelligence for automotive applications.

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Pony.ai and Luminar launch autonomous driving platform

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is set to deploy automotive-grade production autonomous fleets in 2023 globally. The goal of the partnership is to increase safe, autonomous driving in complex urban environments with an integrated sensor design that leads advanced development to production scale. In 2020, Pony.ai and Toyota in 2019.

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