Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2025

The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is maknig right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories. Cartwheel is more interested in building robots that people can connect with, with the eventual goal of general purpose home companionship.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

CNH Industrial has entered into an exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement for electrification technologies with Monarch Tractor , a US-based AgTech company specializing in fully electric autonomous tractors.

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MAY 23, 2022

is evaluating Geismar, LA as the site to build the world’s largest clean ammonia facility. Building on the company’s expertise in low-carbon ammonia production, clean ammonia will be manufactured using innovative technology to achieve at least a 90% reduction in CO 2 emissions. Canada-based Nutrien Ltd. Source: Nutrien.

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APRIL 3, 2023

This relationship builds on a previously signed development agreement between Chart and Nikola to work together to develop innovative solutions for the hydrogen electric vehicle market. This purchase also includes the most recent design of Chart’s liquid hydrogen transport trailers, building upon over 57 years of hydrogen trailer experience.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The research focuses on zero-carbon hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels as viable alternatives to diesel for the rail industry. The team’s goal is to reduce carbon emissions from the roughly 25,000 locomotives already in use in North America. Each year, the North American rail fleet emits approximately 87.6 billion pounds of carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

Designed as a U-turn layout, the modular ovens are located outside so the car bodies can leave the building, go through the ovens, and then return indoors.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2025

Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? Like Bill Joys infamous gray goo , a silo-busting nanotechnology industry never materialized. The quantum regime, however, is already its own thriving industry, perhaps because the science of it is so unique.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Together with eight project partners, it is now seeking public funding to build one of the world’s first hydrogen-powered high-speed vessels. This project will contribute to economic growth and development in Narvik and its surrounding regions and will also be an important contribution to the green transition in the maritime industry.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With this early approval, these states can now unlock more than $900 million in NEVI formula funding from FY22 and FY23 to help build EV chargers across approximately 53,000 miles of highway across the country. Approved Plans are available on the FHWA web site.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to demonstrate the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor for an industrial site in North America. Earlier post.) Built with a high-temperature-tolerant graphite core structure, the Xe-100 is designed for a 60-year operational life.

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MARCH 6, 2022

Northvolt and Stora Enso recently signed a letter of intent on a purchase of the Kvarnsveden Mill and the surrounding industrial area in Borlänge, Sweden. With its access to energy, industrial water and the broad production know-how in the region, Kvarnsveden is an optimal site for a gigafactory.

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JULY 24, 2022

The planned facility would be the first of its kind in North America, combining cathode and precursor materials manufacturing at a large industrial scale and thereby completing the missing link in Canada’s battery value chain, from natural resources to electric mobility.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The new joint venture will be located in an organized industrial zone in Başkent, near Ankara. Ford and Koç Holding had originally signed a non-binding MoU with battery maker SK On to build the battery JV in Turkey. This new joint venture project builds on long-standing business relationships Ford has with both LGES and Koç Holding.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen. Aside from replacing grey hydrogen in industrial processes, green hydrogen will also have a multiplier effect when used in the production of renewable fuels that will replace traditional fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets made of material that conducts electricity with little or no resistance at temperatures warmer than before.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

This partnership in the urban air mobility industry will leverage each company’s respective strengths and competencies to bring the Midnight aircraft to market. With a range of 100 miles, Midnight is optimized for back-to-back short distance trips of around 20 miles, with a charging time of approximately 10 minutes in-between.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

Yara Porsgrunn has about 450 employees and is the biggest production unit in Herøya Industrial Park. Yara will in addition to Linde work with a significant number of local suppliers in the Grenland region on this project. Yara is the world's leading supplier of mineral fertilizer and has a market share of approximately 8%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2023

The lithium industry needs to invest $116 billion by 2030 if the world is to meet the ambitions targets set by governments and the largest automakers, according to a Benchmark analysis. The money needs to go into building new mines and refineries, as well as into expanding existing assets.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

It also included new grant funding from the Government of British Columbia, which builds upon the Canadian government’s ongoing support through the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF). Reference to breakeven in the context of LM26 refers to the deuterium-tritium breakeven equivalent using deuterium fuel, an industry-standard approach.

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MAY 24, 2022

Topsoe intends to construct the world’s largest and most advanced industrial-scale electrolyzer production plant. Developing a strong Power-to-X industry in Europe will also enforce the EU’s ambitions of being independent of energy imports from other regions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

In the AEO2022 Reference case, transportation and industrial processes are the primary consumers of petroleum and other liquids in the United States. EIA projects that US industrial sector energy consumption will grow more than twice as fast as any other end-use sector from 2021 to 2050.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

The partners aim to replace coal-fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported through pipeline to Germany. Building production facilities in Norway to produce low carbon hydrogen from natural gas with CCS.

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Teslarati

APRIL 21, 2025

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas is building what appear to be castings for the upcoming Cybercab, ahead of the vehicle’s launch and the highly anticipated debut of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD). On Monday, Tesla Giga Texas site observer Joe Tegtmeyer shared photos on X of some unique castings out beside the factory.

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JULY 17, 2020

The partnership is part of Europe’s strategic industry initiative, the European Battery Alliance, aimed at building an independent, sustainable, and resilient battery industry in Europe. Over time, production volumes are expected to increase substantially.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The $10-million VH2 project is designed to bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test, trial and demonstrate new and emerging hydrogen technologies. Hydrogen Industry Mission. The mission builds on CSIRO’s National Hydrogen Roadmap which shared the opportunities for Australia’s clean hydrogen industry.

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JUNE 9, 2023

This new investment in our North American R&D operation, which has been a key pillar of the Michigan automotive industry for more than 50 years, shows Toyota’s directional shift towards electrification for all. Operations at the new battery lab are expected to begin in 2025.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Suiso Frontier , the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, has left Japan to pick up its first hydrogen cargo in Australia. A return to Japan is expected around late February. J-POWER) to form the CO 2 -free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA).

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JANUARY 21, 2023

As part of the FUREC project, RWE plans to build a pre-treatment plant in Zevenellen, Limburg, to convert non-recyclable municipal solid waste (MSW) into solid recovered fuel pellets. The CO 2 released during the hydrogen production is captured and can be stored or possibly used as a raw material by industry in the future.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

The pilot project will test whether the 5G technology meets the demanding requirements of vehicle production with a view to developing this for industrial series production in the future. 5G has the potential to be one such driver of the Industrial Internet of Things. —Beate Hofer, CIO of the Volkswagen Group.

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Electrek

MAY 10, 2025

Members of the US energy industry has committed to investing $100 billion over the next five years to build and buy American-made batteries for large, utility-scale deployments of battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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MARCH 22, 2020

The Road Map stresses the versatility of hydrogen as an enabler of the renewable energy system; an energy vector that can be transported and stored; and a fuel for the transportation sector, heating of buildings and providing heat and feedstock to industry. million jobs by 2050. billion MMBTU per year.

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MAY 23, 2020

The gases and engineering company Linde will build and operate a hydrogen filling station for the series trains near Bremervoerde station. The project is of a great importance to industrial policy that goes far beyond Germany. Here, we are witnessing the first competitive product of hydrogen mobility at industrial level.

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MARCH 13, 2021

Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative in Europe want to build a cross-border pipeline for green hydrogen. By using green hydrogen in refineries, in steel production and for other industrial uses, the overall project should be able to avoid CO 2 emissions of up to 16 million tonnes by 2030.

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MAY 23, 2022

Seamless electrified ecosystem required from rock to road to secure the North American automotive industry Battery development and production is strategically important for the transition to clean-energy economy and to remain globally competitive Sustainable lithium mining and processing is an essential component of this ecosystem.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Sakuú is developing industry leading technology to produce solid-state batteries that will be up to 50% smaller and 30% lighter than today’s lithium-ion batteries and less expensive to produce in high volume. Sakuú’s pilot line. This is an important milestone for Sakuú.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Aeva , a company building next-generation sensing for autonomous vehicles ( earlier post ), and ZF are partnering to bring the first Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR to market for autonomous driving applications. Earlier post.). —Soroush Salehian, Co-Founder of Aeva.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 25, 2025

Several Kenya-based firms have done a magnificent job of building the countrys electric motorcycle industry from scratch starting about 7 years ago. After going through the various stages of early pilots, further pilots, multiple iterations, and pivots, a number of them found the sweet spot and then graduated into early.

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