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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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VinFast partners with Gotion High-Tech on LFP battery cell R&D

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VinFast currently produces several models of electric scooters and buses in Vietnam, and will launch three new electric SUVs—VF e34, VF e35 and VF e36 respectively of C, D and E classes—in Vietnam, North America and Europe in 2021 and 2022.

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Volkswagen launches new research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Other research projects at Volkswagen’s Innovation Hub Knoxville focus on advanced functional materials, including composite car body parts and plant-based materials for future interior designs. The research project aims to generate new insights into the technological and physical hurdles of high-power wireless charging for automobiles.

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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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As part of its Smart Nation initiative to drive the adoption of digital innovation across industries, Singapore is actively fostering the use of digital technologies such as AI, digitalization, and smart urban mobility.

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European consortium investigating graphene-based materials for lightweight cars; energy-efficient and safe vehicles

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As part of the work, a novel graphene-based polymer material will be investigated, modeled, and designed to enhance both vehicle and occupant safety while remaining very light. The 66 new partners come from 19 countries, six of which are new to the consortium: Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Israel.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

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Two of the most interesting innovators in this field are the Israel-based startup. For those applications, the subject may have up to 256 electrodes attached to their scalp with conductive gel to record electrical signals from neurons in different parts of the brain. This is quite real.” How InnerEye’s TSA-boosting technology works.