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Faraday Future receives manufacturing equipment from Guangzhou MINO at Hanford plant

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EV-maker Faraday Future announced the arrival of intelligent manufacturing equipment from Guangzhou MINO Equipment Co., —Matt Tall, Vice President of Manufacturing at Faraday Future. a top-tier automotive supplier offering advanced manufacturing solutions. Guangzhou MINO Equipment Co., was incorporated in 2008.

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BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

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The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. It will ramp up for the first time at our future plant in Debrecen, Hungary, before being rolled out across our global production network in stages. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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Mercedes-Benz running automated test drive in Shanghai; infrastructure peculiarities

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After the start in Germany, the test vehicle based on the new production S‑Class is now under test in the heavy traffic and exposed to the special national features in the Chinese megalopolis of Shanghai. In addition, there are road signs with Chinese characters and lane markings, which in China have different or even multiple meanings.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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But continuing to build new coal-fired plants will leave producers with only bad options toward a net-zero future by 2050. South Africa and India have good iron ore reserves and the potential to produce a large amount of low-cost clean power. China will continue to play a pivotal role.

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Axion International signs LOI to form global JV with Sicut Holding to target $8B railroad tie market with recycled structural composites

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Axion is the licensee of patents owned by Rutgers University to commercialize and sell products related to its structural composite technology primarily in North America, South America, Australia, the Caribbean, South Korea, Russia and a portion of the Chinese market based on a “contracts-won” basis.

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China’s JAC plans Aussie push with EV ute benchmarked against Rivian R1T

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The future of JAC is EV,” declared Jason Pecotic, the managing director of BLK Auto. Pecotic, a China auto industry veteran, has had a previous stint with JAC when it briefly sold a diesel truck here a decade ago, as well as WMC (Foton) utes and MG, which is part of Chinese manufacturing giant SAIC. 2023 JAC T9 Hunter pick-up. “We

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Future TOAR studies will provide a global assessment of the ozone levels experienced by vegetation, observed ozone levels that affect climate and a historical analysis that explores how ozone levels have changed around the world since the early 20.

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