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Nornickel, Rosatom and FESRC to design and build LNG-icebreaker to escort Nornickel ships along Northern Sea Route

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Parts are free of ice for only two months per year. Nornickel, the largest industrial company in the Russian Arctic, has unique expertise in operating the Northern Sea Route, a strategic transport artery of the global logistics system. The entire route lies in Arctic waters and within Russia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

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Design Building Russia Fleet

Agility’s New Factory Can Build Thousands of Humanoids a Year

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Agility Robotics has announced the opening of a 6,500 square-meter factory dedicated to building its Digit humanoid robot. So, kudos to Agility for getting to this point—the hard part starts now, when they have to find people to actually buy all of these robots.

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Building Oregon Buy Parts

Maersk to pioneer first container vessel conversion to methanol dual-fuel engine; working with MAN ES

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

Ultimately, it wants to demonstrate that methanol retrofits can be a viable alternative to new buildings, said Leonardo Sonzio, Head of Fleet Management and Technology at Maersk. Replacing engine parts and thereby making the engine able to operate on methanol is a rather complex task, but only a part of the larger retrofit operation.

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Engine Conversion Fuel Green

Tesla’s 5-year lead against rivals validated by auto parts giant

Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2021

Tesla may be shunning numerous conventions when it builds its electric cars, but it appears that the company does know what it’s doing. This is, at least, according to auto parts giant Ningbo Tuopu Group Co., Tuopu also supplies parts for European companies such as Porsche, Audi, BMW, and Volkswagen, among others. .

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In Elon Musk’s intertwining web of companies, Twitter is the latest addition

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Elon Musk recently added Twitter to the list of companies he currently controls. Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company, and others have all worked as an intertwining web of entities with Musk acting as the spider. The Tesla CEO’s companies have never been wholly individualized, per se. Twitter is no different.

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Tesla is building out a team of Semi service technicians in the US and Canada

Teslarati

APRIL 13, 2021

This is hinted at by multiple job listings on the company’s Careers page f or “Semi Service Technicians,” who would become specialists on the upcoming vehicle. . ” This is quite unexpected considering that the company has no vehicle production facilities in Canada as of yet. Credit: Tesla.

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Volkswagen subsidiary Elli acquiring minority stake in emobility software company has·to·be

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2019

Volkswagen Group company Elli will acquire a minority stake in the company. Some of the Group’s own charging stations are already operating using has·to·be software and are therefore part of an integrated charging ecosystem. All the charging stations use has·to·be software.

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Companies Audi Switzerland Charging

Documenting the EV battery material supply chain: Traceability challenges, Part One

Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

OPTEL has partnered with test, inspection and certification specialist Bureau Veritas to create a comprehensive traceability service called V-Trace, which companies and government regulators can use to follow products through their supply chains, from extraction of the raw materials to final assembly. Q&A with OPTEL’s Ken Fallu.

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Charged EVs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging.

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America Parts Charging Ford

Kia to establish its first electric PBV plant in Korea

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

The company plans to begin construction in the first half of 2023, with the aim to commence commercial production in the second half of 2025. The plant will initially be able to build 100,000 PBVs a year with the capacity to increase production to 150,000 units annually in line with the growth of PBV market. Kia’s PBV future.

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Viritech partners with Pininfarina on Apricale hydrogen hypercar

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2022

Viritech, an engineering company developing hydrogen powertrain solutions, is partnering with Pininfarina on Apricale hydrogen hypercar. Pininfarina HAS re-interpreted the Apricale’s initial reference design to create a vision of the future of zero-emissions performance motoring.

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Pininfarina Hydrogen Carbon Fiber Mariner

Meta Aims to Build the World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer

Cars That Think

JANUARY 24, 2022

Meta , parent company of Facebook, says it has built a research supercomputer that is among the fastest on the planet. Several well-funded startups, such as Cerebras and SambaNova , were launched in part to address training times. Meta’s RSC was designed and built entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Building

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Parts order for Tesla Model 3 cut by 40 percent starting in December: report

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Relatively few auto-company CEOs would publicly mention sleeping on the roof of one of their factory buildings. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not like most other chief executives of auto companies. A tweet by Musk Thursday evening referred to the eighth circle of Hell and suggested he'd slept on the.

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Parts Tesla Auto Building

Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

Cars That Think

MARCH 10, 2023

As part of the IEEE’s Industry Connections Program , it will bring together experts from both industry and academia to help map out the innovations that will be needed to make the metaverse a reality. For example, they can permanently change the virtual world by destroying a wall or building a new house. In other words, a metaverse.

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Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman is better known for founding SHI International Corp, a large private IT company that made him a billionaire. KoGuan is the third largest individual shareholder in the company, but you could argue that he is the biggest Tesla investor as he invested more than anyone in the company: $3.5

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Stellantis acquires AI tech of CloudMade to boost software strategy

Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2024

Stellantis adds that CloudMade’s AI-backed technology has been used as a reference point to transform in-car mobility user experiences for the past decade. Stellatnis plans to use CloudMade’s AI-powered technology to further develop its STLA SmartCockpit in the mid-term, a software offering part of the automaker’s DareForward 2030.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Cars That Think

MAY 1, 2024

It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, Germany, to manufacture such a projector, they initially rebuffed him. In 1924, public demonstrations of the Zeiss planetarium took place on the roof of the company’s factory in Jena, Germany. I get a crick in the neck just thinking about it.)

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Wärtsilä and partners to cooperate in wind-to-hydrogen-to-electricity project; other power-to-X fuels

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Wärtsilä Finland, the energy companies Vaasan Sähkö and EPV Energia, and the City of Vaasa, Finland have signed a letter of intent to cooperate in a project aimed at utilizing emissions-free hydrogen in power generation, industry and transportation applications. —Matti Rautkivi, Director, New Business, Wärtsilä Energy.

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Hydrogen Wind Power Powered

Eastman collaborating with USAMP and PADNOS on fully circular recycling study in automotive market

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2021

The other 10%–20%, referred to as automotive shedder residue (ASR), consists of mixed plastic and other non-recycled materials that currently end up in landfills or are recovered through waste-to-energy technologies. —Steve Zimmer, executive director of USCAR. That’s why this project is so exciting.

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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction partners with RevoTech on production of hydrogen from waste plastic

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

The company has signed a business partnership MOU with RevoTech, a company that specializes in the continuous pyrolysis of waste plastic. Doosan Heavy, which has been focused on building up its eco-friendly energy business, is widening its reach to include the hydrogen business.

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Waste Hydrogen Industrial Industry

GlobalFoundries, Ford partner to address auto chip supply and meet growing demand

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

GlobalFoundries (GF), a global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, and Ford Motor Company announced a strategic collaboration to advance semiconductor manufacturing and technology development within the United States, aiming to boost chip supplies for Ford and the US automotive industry.

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Supplies Ford Auto Auto Industry

Tesla partner IDRA shows rumored Cybertruck Giga Press

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Update: The fifth paragraph was edited to note that the tonnage refers to clamping force, not weight.” A photo shared on Monday is widely speculated to show the casting machine Tesla will use to build the Cybertruck, though the claim’s validity is still in question.

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Tesla Texas Manufacturer Auto

MAN reports first order for methanol engine within container segment

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2021

Møller – Maersk, the global integrator of container logistics, while HHI-EMD, which has already experience with LGIM engines (8 engines in operation and 12 engines under construction for methanol carriers), will build the MAN B&W 6G50ME-LGIM (-Liquid Gas Injection Methanol) type—also in Korea. The engine will be Tier III-compliant.

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Engine Oil Fuel Supplies

Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

As you can imagine, companies are aggressively recruiting engineers with this cross-functional knowledge. Beyond that, assistive technology is a core part of the military's long-term strategic plan. Wired Magazine refers to this layered reality as the "Mirrorworld." Help build the future of assistive technology!

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‘We built a profitable model without subsidy on battery or scooter’: Yulu’s Amit Gupta | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

India’s largest shared electric two wheeler mobility company, Yulu’s CEO, Amit Gupta said that the company has built a profitable product without subsidy on the battery or scooter. We were clear we have to build it from the grounds up. There are companies on the low end of the spectrum.

Batteries

Batteries Battery India Building

NEVS presents Saab 9-3 EV prototype

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2014

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), the company working to resurrect the Saab brand, presented the Saab 9-3 Electric Vehicle as designed and produced as part of a prototype series in Trollhättan. Under the hood. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Acceleration 0-100 km/h in 10 seconds. Maximum speed of 120 km/h (75 mph).

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Sweden Lithium Ion Financing MPH

Renault wins first lot of UGAP tender for electric vehicles; companies ordering more than 15,600 Renault Kangoo electric vans over 4-year period

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

earlier post ) electric light commercial vans will be ordered over a 4-year period by 19 of France’s largest companies taking part in the call for bids, including 10,000 for La Poste, 1,500 for ERDF, 1,200 for UGAP, 510 for Veolia Environnement, 450 for GDF-Suez and 330 for Spie. The 19 large companies acquiring Kangoo Z.E.

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Yadea factory tour: The surprises I found at the world’s largest electric vehicle maker

Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

The factory is already huge, but there’s more expansion planned in the next few years And I’m not exaggerating when I refer to Yadea as “massive.” Last year, over 16 million two-wheeled EVs rolled off the company’s production lines. And this is just Phase I of the factory, which was only built a few years ago.

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical

Tesla’s “Project Highland” Model 3 photos hint at upcoming updates worth keeping secret

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It doesn’t follow the dealership model, its cars are sold with most options already built in, and its CEO does not lead the company like a traditional chief executive. It would reportedly reduce the number of components that will be used to build the car as well. Tesla has always had a rebellious streak.

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Highlander San Francisco Tesla Germany

Rivian R1T charging status light bar spotted in the wild

Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rivian’s status charging light bar does work like the battery symbol most people refer to on their phones to see if they need to charge. Rivian plans to build out its own charging infrastructure over the next few years. Besides the status charging bar, Rivian R1T owners could also use the Rivian App to monitor their charging.

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Light Charging DC Installation

Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The few companies that have access to graphite mines in North America are the belles of the EV ball at the moment. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. It’s amazing what the IRA is driving in terms of new companies and investment. Take Westwater as an example.

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Elon Musk is putting Tesla all-in on Robotaxi

Baua Electric

APRIL 16, 2024

At the same time, the CEO is threatening not to build AI products at Tesla. For the most part, Tesla’s business, financially speaking, is selling electric vehicles, specifically Model Y. For the most part, Tesla’s business, financially speaking, is selling electric vehicles, specifically Model Y. I get it, to a degree.

Tesla

Tesla Building All-Electric Texas

The Boring Company’s updated projects page no longer lists D.C.-Baltimore tunnel

Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2021

The Boring Company’s updates to its official website have removed references to some of the tunneling startup’s announced projects, such as the D.C.-Baltimore The state also aided The Boring Company in submitting a draft environmental assessment to the highway administration, which was released in 2019.

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Tesla China announces R&D center, shares teaser for Tesla Bot project

Teslarati

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The recently completed facility will be hosting several critical programs that would benefit Tesla on a worldwide scale, such as the design and creation of the company’s upcoming $25k car. A substantial part of the video was also dedicated to the company’s software prowess. . We will let it roll recently.

China

China Tesla Re-Charge Chinese

Tesla Investor Day to lay base for green tidal wave, but expectations are big

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tesla will hold its Investor Day at Gigafactory Texas this week, and the company is expected to reveal numerous new developments in its company roadmap, including details about its Master Plan Part 3 and potential updates regarding its affordable vehicle model that is already in development. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Tesla Global Insight

Tesla seems to have avoided potential $41M headcount penalty at Buffalo Gigafactory

Teslarati

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The electric automaker and energy storage company has met an employment headcount figure that was agreed upon by the two entities years ago, but it will not be finalized until the year ends. New job figures from the State of New York Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate Tesla has 1,536 current full-time employees and 21 part-time positions.

New York

New York Tesla Energy Storage Grant

New sensor tech for commercial Lithium-ion batteries could support >5x faster charging without compromising safety

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Subsequently, as the cell temperature increases, the reaction rates for the decomposition of the electrolyte increase, which can lead to the electrolyte breakdown and gas formation, resulting in pressure build-up in the cell. Schematics of the FBG sensing element embedded into a Li-ion cylindrical cell. Amietszajew et al. Click to enlarge.

Lithium Ion

Lithium Ion Commercial Li-ion Charging

Germany sets a new EV registration record, leaving ICE in the dust

Teslarati

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“The explanation is relatively simple: Carmakers decide what sort of vehicles they allocate parts like semiconductors to. Additionally, registrations of purely battery-driven vehicles, more commonly referred to as BEVs, increased by 32 percent month to month. “It’s a mutually reinforcing trend.

Germany

Germany Purchase 2019 Norway

Tesla’s updated Model 3 and Model Y Owner’s Manual hints at ventilated seats

Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2022

With the update, the Climate Control section of the Model 3 and Model Y manuals now feature references to ventilated seats, as the documents now state that the vehicles’ seats have both heating and cooling functions. . A screenshot from the updated Tesla Model Y Owner’s Manual. Credit: Tesla ).

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Mercury Texas Tesla 2018

Mercedes-Benz wins landmark road monitoring program in the Netherlands; connected vehicle data

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Winning this important reference project in Europe for intelligent road monitoring marks a major step forward for Mercedes-Benz in our clearly stated aim to ‘Lead in car software’. The company has already proven the effectiveness of this system in a pioneering pilot project with Transport for London.

Netherlands

Netherlands Mercedes Connect Connected

Civil Maps debuts augmented reality maps for self-driving cars

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Civil Maps, a software provider for crowdsourcing continental scale 3D maps for fully autonomous machines , unveiled a passenger-facing augmented reality (AR) experience that integrates the company’s localization technology with 3D dynamic maps.

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Report: $25,000 Tesla Model 2 project nixed in favor of robotaxis

Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

According to a report Friday morning from Reuters , citing three sources familiar with the matter, the company has ceased plans to build a $25,000 Tesla that would slot below the Model 3 and Model Y in the lineup. The most affordable Tesla may have been canceled.

Tesla

Tesla Affordable Price India

Husqvarna’s new electric demolition robot will smash up your house

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Best known around these parts for their electric lawnmowing robots and motorcycle/scooter concepts , Husqvarna has a long tradition in the construction space, and the DXR 95 represents the fifth such demolition robot introduced by the company in recent years. do help with that.

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Electric Electrical Environment Motorcycles

New study finds gasoline stations vent up to 10x more benzene fumes than previously thought

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In urban areas like New York City, some gas stations are located directly adjacent to apartment buildings. In a competing interest statement, the authors note that Tiberi directs a company that develops technologies for reducing fuel emissions from gasoline-handling operations. 2018.09.303.

Gasoline

Gasoline New York City Pollution Gas

Nornickel, Rosatom and FESRC to design and build LNG-icebreaker to escort Nornickel ships along Northern Sea Route

Agility’s New Factory Can Build Thousands of Humanoids a Year

Maersk to pioneer first container vessel conversion to methanol dual-fuel engine; working with MAN ES

Tesla’s 5-year lead against rivals validated by auto parts giant

In Elon Musk’s intertwining web of companies, Twitter is the latest addition

Tesla is building out a team of Semi service technicians in the US and Canada

Volkswagen subsidiary Elli acquiring minority stake in emobility software company has·to·be

Documenting the EV battery material supply chain: Traceability challenges, Part One

EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Kia to establish its first electric PBV plant in Korea

Viritech partners with Pininfarina on Apricale hydrogen hypercar

Meta Aims to Build the World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer

Parts order for Tesla Model 3 cut by 40 percent starting in December: report

Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

Stellantis acquires AI tech of CloudMade to boost software strategy

A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Wärtsilä and partners to cooperate in wind-to-hydrogen-to-electricity project; other power-to-X fuels

Eastman collaborating with USAMP and PADNOS on fully circular recycling study in automotive market

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction partners with RevoTech on production of hydrogen from waste plastic

GlobalFoundries, Ford partner to address auto chip supply and meet growing demand

Tesla partner IDRA shows rumored Cybertruck Giga Press

MAN reports first order for methanol engine within container segment

Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

‘We built a profitable model without subsidy on battery or scooter’: Yulu’s Amit Gupta | Autocar Professional

NEVS presents Saab 9-3 EV prototype

Renault wins first lot of UGAP tender for electric vehicles; companies ordering more than 15,600 Renault Kangoo electric vans over 4-year period

Yadea factory tour: The surprises I found at the world’s largest electric vehicle maker

Tesla’s “Project Highland” Model 3 photos hint at upcoming updates worth keeping secret

Rivian R1T charging status light bar spotted in the wild

Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Elon Musk is putting Tesla all-in on Robotaxi

The Boring Company’s updated projects page no longer lists D.C.-Baltimore tunnel

Tesla China announces R&D center, shares teaser for Tesla Bot project

Tesla Investor Day to lay base for green tidal wave, but expectations are big

Tesla seems to have avoided potential $41M headcount penalty at Buffalo Gigafactory

New sensor tech for commercial Lithium-ion batteries could support >5x faster charging without compromising safety

Germany sets a new EV registration record, leaving ICE in the dust

Tesla’s updated Model 3 and Model Y Owner’s Manual hints at ventilated seats

Mercedes-Benz wins landmark road monitoring program in the Netherlands; connected vehicle data

Civil Maps debuts augmented reality maps for self-driving cars

Report: $25,000 Tesla Model 2 project nixed in favor of robotaxis

Husqvarna’s new electric demolition robot will smash up your house

New study finds gasoline stations vent up to 10x more benzene fumes than previously thought

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