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Hyundai premieres commercialized model of XCIENT Fuel Cell tractor and vision for hydrogen mobility in US

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Hyundai Motor Company premiered its new XCIENT Fuel Cell tractor, the commercialized class 8 6x4 fuel cell electric model, for the North American commercial vehicle (CV) market at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo.

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General Motors acquires battery software startup ALGOLiON

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General Motors has acquired substantially all the assets of Israel-based battery software startup ALGOLiON Ltd. ALGOLiON employees, including the company’s founders, will remain based in Israel and join more than 850 employees at the GM Technical Center in Herzliya, Israel. for an undisclosed sum.

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Electreon and ASPIRE to launch electrified roadway demo in Utah

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Israel-based Electreon, a developer ofin-road wireless electric vehicle charging technology for shared, commercial and passenger vehicles, and ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification), an NSF-funded engineering research center, are launching a joint demonstration project.

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Hyundai Motor to establish Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore

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Hyundai also will pursue open innovation with world-class educational institutions such as the Nanyang Technological University by conducting joint projects as well as co-founding separate research centers. Strategy 2025 also details regional optimization for Smart Mobility Services.

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U Georgia team discovers tungsten in novel bacterial enzyme; potential for cellulosic biofuels

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This discovery could ultimately lead to commercially viable conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels and chemical feedstocks. Avoiding pretreatment would boost commercial viability. The researchers hypothesized that this new tungstoenzyme plays a key role in C. bescii to produce fuels and other useful chemicals from such feedstocks.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

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Neural sensors are now reliable and affordable enough to support commercial pilot projects that extract productivity-enhancing data from workers’ brains. Two of the most interesting innovators in this field are the Israel-based startup. In an office in Herzliya, Israel, Sergey Vaisman sits in front of a computer. Chris Philpot.

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REE unveils new REEcorners and EV platforms for range of vehicle and market segments

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Israel-based REE Automotive (REE) revealed 5 new and improved REEcorner architecture designs and the technology behind its EV platforms designed to support a broad range of commercial electric vehicles. —Ahishay Sardes, REE Co-Founder and CTO.

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