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Hanwha and LG Energy to build battery production in US, targeting ESS and UAM

Green Car Congress

Hanwha Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) will invest in building battery production facilities in the United States. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding in Seoul for comprehensive battery business cooperation for ESS (energy storage systems) and other clean-tech energy solutions.

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GM will build Nikola Badger electric truck, supply hydrogen fuel-cell tech

Green Car Reports

General Motors and Nikola Corporation announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday in which GM will supply hydrogen fuel-cell systems and battery systems to Nikola. Furthermore, GM will build the upcoming Nikola Badger pickup truck starting in 2022.

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Hyundai Motor and Kia revamp R&D organization to make it more agile, flexible and independent like startups

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Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are reorganizing their joint research and development (R&D) organization to be able to respond flexibly to the rapidly changing global automotive industry, advance the transition to electrification and accelerate the development of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

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Nissan Updates Rogue, Adds Tech and Tweaks Styling

The Truth About Cars

.& Appearance, in-car tech, and cabin materials are all getting a critical eye. New front and rear fascias – you know, the parts that don’t require wholesale changes to expensive-to-alter hard points – crop up for 2024, as does a massaged version of the corporate ‘V-Motion’ grille.

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ElectricFish Opens 1st Intelligent Grid EV Infrastructure Manufacturing Facility in California

CleanTechnica EVs

New San Carlos facility showcases climate tech industry advancing state and federal goals for domestic clean energy supply chains SAN CARLOS, California — ElectricFish, a national leader in building the next-generation of distributed energy infrastructure, today announced the company’s new manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters in San Carlos, (..)

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Summit Nanotech closes $50M Series A2 for direct lithium extraction technology

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Summit Nanotech Corporation, a company developing direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, closed a US$50 million Series A2. The Series A2 round was led by Evok Innovations and BDC Capital’s Climate Tech Fund alongside participation from previous investors including Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group.

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Volvo ex-CTO Inexperienced joins Swedish self-driving tech startup

Baua Electric

Inexperienced will likely be basic supervisor of self sustaining applied sciences on the corporate, which latter date won regulatory favor to perform its self-driving truck within the U.S. Einride in 2019 turned into the primary corporate on the planet to deploy an self sustaining, electrical automobile on a crowd street.

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