Catalyst stability and expense remain serious obstacles to widespread adoption of hydrogen generation using proton-exchange membrane electrolysis. In a study published in Science, researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan report a new method that reduces the amount of iridium needed... Read more →

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy recently announced $28 million in funding under the Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions program. (Earlier post.) The DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory will be receiving $3 million over three years in one of the 13 new projects for this... Read more →

Geotab, a global transportation telematics provider to more than 50,000 customers in 160 countries, released “In the Driver’s Seat: Accelerating ROI Through Data Driven Insights,” its second commercial transportation report. Expanded to a global report, this edition offers insights into the evolving landscape of the commercial transportation sector. Among the... Read more →

Hydro-Québec, the largest power utility in Canada, and a major player in the global hydropower industry, has joined the Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy)—the open-source foundation focused on harnessing the power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to accelerate the energy transition—as a General Member. LF Energy members provide funding... Read more →

Altilium, a UK-based clean technology group focused on supporting the transition to net zero, announced details of the latest advances in its EcoCathode hydrometallurgical recycling technology, with breakthroughs in the recovery of lithium from new battery chemistries and the production of cathode active materials (CAM) from a mixed feed of... Read more →

At the 2022 Paris Motor Show, Alpine presented its Alpenglow concept, embodying the brand’s ongoing research into hydrogen-powered combustion engines for sports cars, with the potential for high performance both on the road and in competition, in line with the brand’s decarbonization targets. Alpine has now presented the Alpine Alpenglow... Read more →

Infinium has reached an agreement with SMA Mineral (SMA) that will advance the development of Infinium’s eFuels project at the Mo Industripark in Mo i Rana, Norway. (Earlier post.) The Infinium facility will utilize the carbon dioxide that SMA will produce at its Zero Emission Quick Lime (ZEQL) manufacturing facility... Read more →

Daimler Truck North America LLC (DTNA) is making two significant investments at its headquarters complex on Swan Island: a new Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) training center adjacent to Electric Island and a new engineering facility at the DTNA campus. The new addition to Electric Island represents the next phase... Read more →

Aeonsemi, a leader in high-speed Ethernet ICs, is entering the automotive market with the introduction of Nemo, a complete IEEE 802.3ch-compliant multi-gigabit Ethernet chipset for In-Vehicle Networking (IVN) applications. Nemo features the first automotive switch with integrated 10GBASE-T1 PHYs and the industry’s lowest power 10GBASE-T1 PHYs for symmetric and asymmetric... Read more →

Researchers from the Joint BioEnergy Institute have used advanced computing tools to engineer the bacteria Pseudomonas putida (P. putida) for isoprenol production as a precursor for sustainable aviation fuel. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Metabolic Engineering. Isoprenol is a chemical involved in the production... Read more →

Honda R&D (India) Private Limited (HRID), a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and functioning as Honda’s research and development arm for motorcycles & power products in India, opened a new Solution R&D Center in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Honda sets global target of achieving carbon neutrality in all of its products... Read more →

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc., is collaborating with BMC Otomotiv, a leading manufacturer of buses and trucks in Turkey and throughout Europe, to provide battery solutions for their transit bus operations. The companies have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for Accelera to power BMC’s... Read more →

Motiv, a manufacturer of class 4-6 electric trucks and buses, has fully completed the delivery of 55 Motiv electric trucks to Purolator, a leading integrated freight, package, and logistics solutions provider. Purolator ordered the additional vehicles last year following a successful pilot of five Motiv electric trucks in 2021. The... Read more →

Albemarle Corporation announced an agreement with Martin Marietta Materials, a leading supplier of building materials—including aggregate, cement, ready mixed concrete and asphalt—to make beneficial use of extracted limestone material from Albemarle’s proposed Kings Mountain Mine lithium project. This agreement is part of Albemarle’s plan to resume lithium mining operations at... Read more →

Australia-based Hysata has closed a US$111-million B round with strong backing from existing major strategic and financial global investors. The company said that the investment demonstrates global recognition for its high efficiency electrolyzer (95% system efficiency, 41.5 kWh/kg incl BoP) with intrinsically low capex and a capital efficient path to... Read more →

Electric Hydrogen announced $100 million in corporate credit financing to support manufacturing and deployment of their innovative 100MW electrolyzer plants, which enable the lowest cost production of green hydrogen. The funding was led by HSBC, with participation from J.P. Morgan, Stifel Bank, and Hercules Capital. Electric Hydrogen’s complete 100MW plant... Read more →

The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced details for 35 projects across 20 states that received a total of $1.93 billion in allocations of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C). This information was voluntarily shared with DOE by the recipients of the tax credits, including the following seven... Read more →

ComEd announced the addition of two new, all-electric bucket trucks to its fleet. The new trucks are part of a ComEd initiative to transition its fleet vehicles powered by internal combustion engines to the use of fully-electric, biodiesel and clean powered vehicles supporting its work across northern Illinois. Designed for... Read more →

Eaton has been selected by a leading manufacturer of electrified vehicles to supply a unique ELocker differential system for use on a new plug-in electric hybrid (PHEV) SUV. Unlike traditional PHEVs, which use an electric motor and internal combustion engine to power all the drive wheels, the new model leverages... Read more →

Molex has introduced its MX-DaSH family of data-signal hybrid connectors that unify power, signal and high-speed data connectivity in a single connector system. These wire-to-wire and wire-to-board connectors are designed to support the transition to zonal architecture and address the full range of emerging applications requiring reliable data transmission. These... Read more →

The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) has partnered with Michelin Mobility Intelligence (MMI) to provide $300,000 in competitive grants to three states for advanced traffic safety data collection and analysis. Ten states submitted creative ideas on how they would put Michelin data—which is drawn from anonymous data from more than... Read more →

Archer Aviation, a developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, completed the build out of its high-volume battery pack manufacturing line. This facility is housed at Archer’s Integrated Test Lab and Manufacturing Facilities in San Jose, CA and will have the throughput necessary to support the planned high... Read more →

Cleantech and Hydrogen fuel cell technology specialist Bramble Energy has successfully completed a project aimed at accelerating the transition to an electrified automotive industry in the UK, funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC)’s Scale-up Readiness Validation (SuRV) program. As part of the Automotive Transformation Fund—a program created to... Read more →

GF Casting Solutions AG, a division of Georg Fischer AG, Schaffhausen (Switzerland) that produces lightweight components for the mobility and energy industries, will invest more than $184 million in a new manufacturing facility in Augusta, Georgia. GF Casting Solutions develops and produces parts made from aluminum, magnesium, iron, and super... Read more →

Daimler Truck unveiled the battery-electric autonomous Freightliner eCascadia technology demonstrator. The truck is based on a production battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia and is equipped with Torc’s autonomous driving software and the latest Level 4 sensor and compute technology. Torc Robotics is Daimler Truck’s independent subsidiary for autonomous virtual driver technology. While... Read more →

Ryder System, Inc., a leader in supply chain, dedicated transportation, and fleet management solutions, released a quantitative analysis of the potential economic impacts of converting commercial diesel vehicles to electric vehicles (EV) in today’s market. With evolving state and federal legal requirements aimed at transitioning fleets to zero-emission vehicles, Ryder... Read more →

ENNOVI, a mobility electrification solutions partner, introduced an innovative cell contacting system (CCS) lamination approach. ENNOVI has qualified polyethylene terephthalate (PET) insulation foils and adhesives from multiple suppliers by testing them for their bond strength, durability, and environmental impact. As a result of this research, ENNOVI has a database of... Read more →

The US Department of Transportation’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure (ARPA-I) is seeking input from interested parties on the potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in transportation, as well as emerging challenges and opportunities in creating and deploying AI technologies in applications across all modes of transportation. The purpose... Read more →

At the end of 2024, a shipbuilding cluster for the production of electric river transport vessels (earlier post) will open in Nagatinsky Zaton District in Moscow. No such facilities have been built in Russia in recent years. The history of Moscow shipbuilding is almost 90 years old. In 1936, a... Read more →

Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production, has licensed a collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Lithium is the third element on the periodic table.) The technologies were... Read more →