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Archer Aviation finds a partner to commercialize eVTOL travel in Korea, demo flights coming in Q4

Baua Electric

Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Archer Aviation is continuing to lay the global groundwork for commercial operations in a new territory: South Korea. The K-UAM Grand Challenge is currently accepting applicants and will allow five to demo their technology this coming December.

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Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen partner on renewable isooctane for specialty fuel applications

Green Car Congress

Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen, world market leader in alkylate gasoline for two- and four-stroke small engines, have entered into a partnership on renewable isooctane ( earlier post ) for specialty fuel applications. —Thomas Buhl, Head of business development at Global Bioenergies. billion (US$3.8 billion).

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Volvo Buses and Singapore University NTU demo world’s first full size autonomous electric bus

Green Car Congress

Our electric bus featuring autonomous technology represents an important step towards our vision for a cleaner, safer and smarter city. This includes light detection and ranging sensors (lidar), 360-degree cameras and an advanced global navigation satellite system that uses real-time kinematics.

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Shell opens major new technology center in Bangalore; waste-to-fuels demo plant

Green Car Congress

Shell Technology Center Bangalore is one of the three main technology hubs in the company’s global network of R&D centres, with the other two located in the Netherlands and the US.

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Chevrolet to produce Spark battery electric vehicle for US and global markets starting in 2013 with A123 Systems pack; EN-V gets a Chevrolet badge

Green Car Congress

It will be sold in limited quantities in select US and global markets starting in 2013, including California. Our global demo fleets continue to provide insight into the needs of electric vehicle customers living in urban environments. —Jim Federico, global vehicle chief engineer for electric vehicles at Chevrolet.

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Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

Green Car Congress

The technology in the demo—the first of its kind operating at such a large scale—has not been accomplished anywhere else in the United States. million barrels of oil to be produced annually from the CO 2 injection. Vacuum Swing Adsorption (VSA) process for CO 2 separation.

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