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Hyundai Motor Group deepens partnership with Grab to accelerate EV adoption in Southeast Asia

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Survey results from an initial EV pilot in Singapore found that high costs, lack of charging locations and long waiting times for charging are top barriers hindering Grab driver-partners from adopting EVs (based on a survey done with driver-partners who rent vehicles from GrabRentals in 2020).

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Joby Aviation secures $100M in Series B for electric VTOL; Intel, EDBI, JetBlue and Toyota

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Venture-backed startup Joby Aviation has secured $100 million in Series B financing to take its all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) passenger aircraft into pre-production and certification. A 3 by Airbus also recently announced the successful first flight of its full-scale Alpha One autonomous, electric eVTOL prototype Vahana.

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Bosch Establishing E-mobility Service Platform in Singapore; Open Platform Accommodates Third-party Integration

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The Bosch Group has successfully bid for a pilot project in Singapore that includes a software-based service platform for e-mobility, as well as the necessary charging and communication infrastructure that goes with it. It employs nearly 300 specialists, who engineer software for energy management, mobility, and the finance industry.

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Hyundai Motor targeting 7% of global EV market by 2030; 1.87M BEVs

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Presentation of Gang Hyun Seo, Executive Vice President and Head of Finance & Accounting Division at Hyundai Motor Company. Hyundai Motor Global Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS), the cornerstone for innovation in the company’s mobility value chain, will build a human-centered manufacturing innovation platform.

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Singapore launches electric-car sharing program using Bollore BlueCars

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While many view car ownership as a monthly lease or financing payment, owning a car for others requires finding a place to keep it and perhaps the need to keep moving it around. Some of us take for granted the difficulty and cost of owning a car, but more alternatives exist today than did 10 years ago. That's where car sharing comes in.

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New solid hydrogen-on-demand fuel cell from HES Energy Systems flies UAV for record 6 hours

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The Skyblade 360 fuel cell system developed by HES and DSO is extremely lightweight in comparison to lithium batteries that typically power this aircraft, and it is also extremely compact: its 1L fuel cartridge holds 1000 Wh of usable energy.

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Hyundai & Grab Want To Accelerate EV Adoption In Southeast Asia

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The two companies plan to also push battery-as-a-service and EV financing forward. Hyundai and Grab, which provides taxis and rental cars in markets in Southeast Asia, are in the mood to electrify. Down in Southeast Asia, the duo are partnering to offer more electric cars as rentals. But that’s not all!

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