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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Your ears prick up at the sound of an unfamiliar name—your mother’s name is Frances, and no one in your family is named Adeline. What is the digital afterlife industry? T oday, a “digital afterlife industry” is already making it possible to create reconstructions of dead people based on the data they’ve left behind.

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JUNE 9, 2022

will build a 35-tons-per-day green hydrogen generation plant at Port of Antwerp-Bruges in the heart of Europe. Plug signed a 30-year concession agreement to build the plant at the Belgian port, the second-largest in Europe. Plug will build in the port’s NextGen District, an area dedicated to companies supporting the circular economy.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

French industrial company Verkor has selected the port city of Dunkirk (Hauts de France) for the construction of its first Gigafactory for the development of low-carbon battery cells designed to support Europe’s net-zero goals. Dunkirk is the most promising site out of the 40 investigated by Verkor in France, Spain and Italy.

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JUNE 15, 2021

Airbus has established Zero-Emission Development Centers (ZEDCs) at its sites in Bremen (Germany) and in Nantes (France). The ZEDC technology developments will cover the full product and industrial capabilities from elementary parts, assembly, systems integration and the cryogenic testing of the final liquid hydrogen (LH 2 ) tank system.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Evolution of Zenith (and the TV Industry) 1918. TV makers left after North American Philips buys Magnavox Consumer Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial of Japan buys Motorola’s television business plus its Quasar brand name, and GTE Sylvania buys Philco trademark.) TV industry from Japanese advances. GE buys RCA.)

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APRIL 14, 2022

Envision AESC, a leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will invest $2 billion to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. The plant will be approximately 3 million square feet and marks one of the largest economic projects in the commonwealth’s history.

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Baua Electric

MAY 28, 2024

Blue Solutions’ planned gigafactory would be located in eastern France, close to both French and German automakers, and start production in 2030, Bouveret said in an interview. French company Blue Solutions plans to build a gigafactory in eastern France costing about 2 billion euros (USD 2.17

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

These systems will be developed and produced at its global center of expertise in Bavans, France. As volumes, increase production will be extended to a new plant dedicated to hydrogen storage systems that Faurecia is building in Allenjoie, France. —Gilles le Borgne, Executive Vice-President Engineering Groupe Renault.

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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MAY 4, 2012

France recently launched GreenStars, a federation bringing together all the players in the development of micro-algae in France. GreenStars was conceived to give France an industrial vision of the complete algae production chain and at the same time to become a major player on an international scale.

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APRIL 21, 2021

As part of its technology development and scale-up, ELYSIS will install industrial inert anode prototype cells at the end of an existing potline at the Alma smelter to demonstrate the technology’s effectiveness at a commercial scale in an industrial operating environment. Earlier post.).

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MAY 21, 2020

Unlike other renewable energy sources, hydrogen can fuel hard-to-decarbonize heavy industrial sectors like steel, heavy transport, and cement. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

France-based advanced battery-maker Saft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of international energy giant Total, is building an alliance with other European partners to launch an ambitious program of research, development and industrialization for new generations of batteries focusing on advanced high-density Li-ion and solid-state battery technology.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The implementation of this project, the first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site—a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper—in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. In this case, the “X” will be hydrogen. million, of which €10.5

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Mobility company Transdev , through its subsidiary Proxiway, which specializes in car sharing, has launched, in partnership with the Toshiba group, an innovative car sharing service using solar energy and quick-charge points in the eco-district of La Confluence, Lyon, France. The project will run for two years until December 2015.

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APRIL 14, 2010

a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, introduced two bio-based performance materials for the automotive industry. Industry testing has proven that DSM has been able to achieve this high renewable content without making any sacrifice to product performance or production speeds.

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MARCH 12, 2022

A more recent trend with Europe’s lithium-ion battery build out is the emergence of auto majors as pseudo-battery producers seeking to secure cell supply through joint-venture plants. ACC (Total/Stellantis) (Germany, France, Italy): 64 GWh. Benchmark cautions that capacity does not necessarily equal reliable supply for the EV industry.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Hydrogen Mobility Europe ( H2ME ), a multi-country, multi-partner project to demonstrate that hydrogen can support Europe’s future transport demands, announced that it has deployed its first 100 fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) in Germany, France and the UK.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Stellantis and ACC planned to build three battery gigafactories in Europe, specifically France, Germany, and Italy. EU Tariffs on China-made EV imports get support from Italy In August, Italy’s Minister of Industry Adolfo Urso pressured Stellatnis to continue its gigafactory build in Termoli or risk losing funding.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Understanding is most advanced in evaluating the health impacts of the major regional air pollutants, and builds on previous peer-reviewed analysis such as that undertaken to inform the CAFE Programme. —Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe. Log scale) Source: EEA. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Its first plants will be built in Norway, Germany, and Belgium with investment also planned in the UK and France. INEOS, through its subsidiary INOVYN, is already Europe’s largest existing operator of electrolysis, the technology necessary to produce green hydrogen for power generation, transportation, and industrial use.

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MARCH 30, 2022

VinFast’s factory will create a major manufacturing center in Chatham County’s Triangle Innovation Point megasite, covering an area of 800-hectares, with 3 main areas: electric car and bus production and assembly, EV battery production and ancillary industries for suppliers. The capacity of phase 1 is expected to be 150,000 vehicles per year.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. Electric vehicles batteries are at the heart of the transformation of the automotive industry because of their potential applications.

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JULY 8, 2011

One month after its IPO ( earlier post ), Global Bioenergies, a France-based startup that has engineered a series of bacterial strains that can produce isobutene, has received €475K (US$680K) in funding from the French innovation agency OSEO. straw) into isobutene, one of the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. Van Hool has been building hydrogen buses for the American market since 2005 and for the European market since 2007.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The agreement builds upon the working relationship already established between the two companies earlier this year. The company has made significant progress in deploying hydrogen applications with key European industrials, logistics customers and vehicle manufacturers, including its joint venture with Renault called HYVIA.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China’s dominance of the industry is to be expected given its huge investments and the policies the country has implemented over the past decade. The next decade will be particularly interesting as Europe and the US try to create their own battery champions to challenge Asian incumbents who are already building capacity in both places.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Hydrogen pipelines are already used to supply industrial hubs (at petrochemical plants for example). Globally, Europe is at the forefront of efforts to produce and import green hydrogen and its attention is now turning to building the necessary infrastructure to get it to demand centers. France, Spain, and Germany.

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JULY 30, 2018

The project aims to build and demonstrate a 27-ton rigid hydrogen fuel cell truck along with a mobile refueler. This in intended to support the formation of a basis for the development of a zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle industry in the area. In March 2017, the Belgian organization WaterstofNet received approval for the €3.52-million

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group is building an electric ecosystem in Northern France known as Renault ElectriCity. The carbon footprint of nickel sulfate produced by Terrafame is more than 60 % smaller than industry average. The carbon footprint of the nickel sulfate produced by Terrafame is one of the lowest in the industry, the company says.

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JULY 27, 2012

Renault says that the results achieved by its R&D Laboratory and the CEA in new-generation batteries for electric vehicles have made it possible to enter the preparation phase for industrial production. Renault is supporting the development of a EV electrics industry in France as part of the ongoing negotiations with LG Chem.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Embarking in June 2017 from Saint-Malo Port in France, Energy Observer is an electrically propelled vessel of the future that is operated using a mix of renewable energies and an on-board system that produces carbon-free hydrogen from seawater.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

France-based Global Bioenergies has signed an agreement with a US partner concerning a specific application of its gaseous hydrocarbon bioproduction process. For example, isobutylene is used in the fuel industry (ETBE, isooctane) but also to manufacture organic glass, plastics and tires. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

LeydenJar , a Dutch developer of ultra-thin, pure silicon battery anodes, has secured the funding to build its first factory to produce silicon anode foil. Now, the EIB’s financing will help it to develop and install a set of larger machines to demonstrate the first-of-its-kind production of the anode material at industrial scale.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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JULY 4, 2022

Building sustainable and clean energy systems will be harder, riskier and more expensive without nuclear, according to the new report, Nuclear power and secure energy transitions: From today’s challenges to tomorrow’s clean energy systems.

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MARCH 7, 2024

This deal is the first of its kind for a Western automaker and gives Stellantis the exclusive rights to build, export, and sell Leapmotor brand EVs outside of China, and it is already mulling some exciting markets for them. billion stake (21%) in Leapmotor – a prominent automaker in China. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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