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Ørsted and partners secure funding for H2RES project; offshore wind power to produce renewable hydrogen for road transport

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million (US$5 million) for the H2RES project from EUDP’s second 2019 call for applications. The partners will build a 2MW electrolysis plant with appurtenant hydrogen storage. The plant will use electricity from offshore wind turbines to produce renewable hydrogen for buses, trucks and potentially taxis.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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These sensors will detect other aircraft, birds, buildings, and thick clouds. This effort began in 2019. Imagine air taxis, air ambulances, and cargo vehicles whisking people and goods over our cities and beyond. By continually gathering and analyzing this data, the computers will gain situational awareness in the airspace.

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Mobility services infrastructure company Via closes Series E round; valued at $2.25B

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New investors Shell, Macquarie Capital, and Mori Building also participated in the round, as did existing investors Pitango, 83North, Hearst Ventures, Ervington Investments, Planven Ventures, Broadscale Group, and RiverPark Ventures. EXOR is one of Europe’s largest diversified holding companies controlled by the Agnelli family.

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Volocopter gets green light to begin serial production of its eVTOLs in Europe

Baua Electric

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) developer Volocopter announced its latest milestone today, sharing it has received a Production Organization Approval (POA) extension from the German government, enabling it to expand its production facilities and commence serial production of its VoloCity eVTOL air taxis. Is that enough initialisms for you?

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Study suggests China urban passenger transport emissions could peak in 2030

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2) We build a technical database containing parameters related to different travel tools, such as initial cost, operation and maintenance cost, life cycle, fuel price, energy efficiency level, annual mileage, and passenger load rate for vehicles that distinguish between fuel types and energy efficiency levels for each travel mode and vehicle.

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Mercedes-Benz and BMW to sell car-sharing JV SHARE NOW to Stellantis

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SHARE NOW was established in 2019 combines the DNA of car2go, which was developed by the former Daimler AG, and DriveNow, the BMW Group’s offering. With one click users can reach the largest selection of vehicles in Europe, from e-scooters to e-bikes, e-mopeds and car sharing to taxis and chauffeured vehicles.

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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps

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In June 2023, Shenzhen unveiled its first fully liquid-cooled supercharging prototype station as part of its “City of Supercharging” plan, in which it set a goal to build as many supercharging stations as gas stations by 2025. So all those cheap EVs need to be fast-charged, and what better place to expand than BYD’s home city? The city of 12.5

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