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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Nidec Corporation’s Board of Directors approved a resolution to acquire the shares of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., After completion of the acquisition, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool will become Nidec-Shimpo’s third main business.

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JUNE 28, 2020

The BMW Group has officially opened its new Additive Manufacturing Campus. The €15-million campus will allow the BMW Group to develop its position as technology leader in the utilization of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry. Last year, the BMW Group produced about 300,000 parts by additive manufacturing.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Airbus and Renault Group signed a research and development agreement which aims at enhancing transversalities and synergies to accelerate both companies’ electrification roadmaps, improving their respective range of products. Aviation is an extremely demanding field in terms of both safety and energy consumption, and so is the car industry.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Automakers are not reducing the weight of small cars, but instead are prioritizing weight reductions where it offers the most promise to boost fuel economy and reduce emissions—their larger, heavier cars and trucks. The US aluminum industry continues to make significant investments to meet growing demand for automotive aluminum.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 7, 2024

The Volkswagen Group is entering a new business segment with the Elli charging and energy brand and will develop, build and operate large-scale stationary storage systems together with partners along the value chain.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

Höegh Autoliners entered into a Letter of Intent (LoI) with China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co., Together with its capacity to carry up to 9,100 cars the Aurora ships will be the world’s largest and most environmentally friendly car carriers to be built. —Andreas Enger.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 25, 2024

Rivian Automotive and Volkswagen Group announced their intention to form an equally controlled and owned joint venture (JV) to create next-generation electrical architecture and best-in-class software technology. The partnership is anticipated to accelerate the development of software for Rivian and Volkswagen Group.

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MAY 18, 2020

Groupe Renault has identified some 20 projects to deploy blockchain technology. For Groupe Renault, blockchain has to be used as a collaborative, multi-company digital tool within the automotive sector, thereby becoming a source of increased productivity and collective intelligence. Some of these will be deployed soon.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2024

automotive groups have expressed concerns over the Seagull EV and other affordable mass-market EVs eventually coming to North America. “The Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world,” Musk said during the call. auto industry appeared first on TESLARATI.

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APRIL 15, 2021

The common industry/NGO request comes ahead of the expected review of Europe’s Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive (AFID) this year. Our industry is fully committed to the Green Deal and therefore carbon-neutral road freight transport by 2050 at the latest. To that end, we are investing massively in CO 2 -neutral trucks.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Volvo Car Group, including its strategic affiliates Lynk & Co and Polestar, produce vehicles based on the Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) platform, introduced in 2017. To the end of July more than 600,000 group vehicles based on the platform have been sold. The platform made its debut in 2017 with the popular Volvo XC40.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Renault Group and Managem Group , a Moroccan player in the mining and hydrometallurgy sector, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at securing the supply of low-carbon and responsible cobalt sulfate for electric batteries. billion from 2025 and a target of €3 billion.

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JULY 14, 2021

Volkswagen Group and Gotion High-Tech Co., Based on a substantial shareholding agreement in May 2020, Volkswagen Group entered a strategic cooperation framework with the major Chinese battery producer headquartered at Hefei. are deepening their partnership.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 25, 2024

Earlier this year, the National Highway Traffic Highway Safety Administration updated its rules on automatic emergency braking, opting to require that almost all new cars and trucks carry the feature by 2029. The NHTSA’s updated rule requires cars and trucks to stop at speeds up to 62 mph, significantly faster than most offer today.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Global automotive Tier 1 manufacturer Motherson Group is collaborating with Israeli cleantech company UBQ Materials. The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. UBQ Industrial Grade.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2024

The project’s leaders also are looking to increase collaborations among academia, industry, governments, and space agencies. The LEO SatS education and contest working group has held several seminars, now available on IEEE.tv. During the 2022 IEEE Education Week , the group hosted a virtual panel discussion on space education.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

To maximize the opportunities for hydrogen in Europe, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) has established a Fuel Cell Business Group to oversee its hydrogen activities across the region. —Thiebault Paquet, Director of the Fuel Cell Business Group. The base price in Germany is now €64,000 and offers a 650 km (404 mile) range.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

The group is open to both MIPI Alliance member and non-member companies to represent the broader automotive ecosystem. Automakers already rely on MIPI Alliance’s industry-standard interfaces to enable a wide variety of applications, including collision mitigation and avoidance, infotainment and navigation. Analogix Semiconductor, Inc.;

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JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data. Platinum Group Metals (PGM).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. ISO 14 001 and ISO 9 001 certifications, logistics hub, etc.)

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JULY 15, 2021

After the first two LNG car carriers entered service in 2020, Volkswagen Group Logistics has now ordered four more ships with dual-fuel engines that can be powered with LNG. Soon, six of the nine car carriers crossing the North Atlantic for Volkswagen will be powered by LNG.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The electric vehicle (EV) industry is about to have its most significant sales spike thanks to international legislation and nonprofits ramping up support efforts. These cars are critical for defining a net-zero world. Used cars, commercial EVs and charging station equipment are also officially eligible for the credit.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Several years ago, the German government expressed its concerns about exporting German car-building jobs to China and the attendant political and economic upheaval that would entail.

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JULY 20, 2022

The BMW Group is launching a unique project that will see cars maneuver around production without requiring a driver. To make this happen, the BMW Group has been collaborating with Seoul Robotics from South Korea and Embotech from Switzerland. —BMW Group project manager Sascha Andree.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of its continuous optimization of production processes at its plants, the BMW Group is leveraging the opportunities arising from digitalization (i.e., Industry 4.0”, earlier post ). When it comes to digitalization, the BMW Group focuses on six key areas in production: Context-sensitive assistance systems. Industry 4.0:

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APRIL 25, 2023

In an open access paper in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have investigated the effect of group riding on cyclists’ exposure to vehicle pollutants. With more wind, riding towards the back of the group can be a good strategy to minimize exposure.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group and Finland-based metals producer Terrafame have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the future supply of nickel sulfate. With this agreement, Renault Group will secure a significant annual supply of nickel sulfate from Terrafame, representing up to 15 GWh of annual capacity.

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JULY 6, 2022

The Renault Group inaugurated the new “ePT-160kW” electric motor production line at its plant in Cléon. Renault Group has invested €620 million since 2018 at the Cléon site to industrialize the group’s motors for 100% electric and hybrid vehicles.

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JUNE 25, 2019

In parallel with the advancing electrification of its fleet, Volkswagen Group and its brands continue to rely on CNG (compressed natural gas) as an alternative drive technology for decarbonizing road transport; Volkswagen Group[ has revised and expanded its product range again with this in mind. With the SEAT Arona 1.0

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Baua Electric

JULY 15, 2024

Many companies are reluctant to invest in critical minerals and energy transition projects due to uncertainty about consumer demand for EVs and government commitment to zero-carbon goals , industry players said. states aim to ban new petrol car sales by 2035, but there has been a push-back about those targets.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Rio Tinto and Shougang Group , one of the world’s top 10 steel producers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote research, design and implementation of low-carbon solutions for the steel value chain. Founded in 1919, Shougang Group is one of China’s oldest industrial enterprises.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

The BMW Group continues to invest in e-component production at Plant Leipzig and in the future of the site. By 2026 the BMW Group aims for at least one in three new cars sold to be fully electric, so the need for high-voltage batteries will increase.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Renault Group and Qualcomm Technologies intend to take their technology collaboration one step further with plans to deliver a centralized compute architecture for Renault’s next-generation of software defined vehicles. —Luca de Meo, CEO Renault Group.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Renault Group has acquired a 21% minority stake in Whylot , a company based in the Lot region of France that has developed an innovative axial flux automotive e-motor. Renault Group has previously signed a partnership with Whylot to develop and industrialize on a large scale an axial flux e-motor.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

ARC Advisory Group, a technology and research firm founded in 1986, recently released its inaugural Industrial Digital Transformation Top 25 special report. The report analyzes companies across several industries and ranks them based on how well they excel at integrating digital technologies in all areas of their business.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. A newly-released report by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) concludes that the automotive industry is not only “high-tech,” it is frequently a leader in technological developments and applications. Source: IRI 2013, CAR. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Department of Transportation (DOT) Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office) announced the members of the Electric Vehicle Working Group (EVWG), a collection of EV industry experts and leaders who will help guide the widespread adoption of EVs across the country.

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