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First electric Volvo trucks delivered to customers

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Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers.

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

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Aspen is part of the Swedish Lantmännen group, an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe’s leader in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products with annual revenues of €3.4 We are proud to have a major Swedish actor on board of our bio-fuel story, since Sweden is known to be among the pioneering countries regarding biofuels.

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NR Canada seeking commercialization partner for methane oxidation catalyst

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The ideal licensee would be primarily engaged in manufacturing engine parts and systems, such as catalytic converters and engine exhaust control systems, for the on-road vehicle, off-road vehicle and stationary power sectors. However, lean burn natural gas engines suffer from high levels of unburned methane in the exhaust.

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EV News: EV everywhere

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EV manufacturing Volvo revolution Large-scale casting technology is now under implementation at the company’s Sweden plant. Nissan Fifteen for ‘30 New Infinity and Nissan models will be built in Mississippi and are part of the plan to launch 15 EVs by 2030. Inifniti QS concept. 2022 Lincoln Aviator EV. DeLorean EV.

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What V2G Tells Us About EVs and the Grid

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million EVs sold worldwide in 2021, according to Sweden-based analysts EV Volumes , Europe also showed strong growth. There, sales of EVs as part of the overall automobile market rose from 10 percent in 2020 to 17 percent in 2021, with 2.3 That’s the promise of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. million sold.

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Libertine LPE free piston technology targeting power generation, waste-heat recovery and range-extended EV applications; feasibility study with PETRONAS

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A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Earlier post.)

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

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Under the UniEVersal mission, the ‘One Tata’ approach bore fruit rapidly, as other companies under the group played their critical part in this journey. As a group, we have a clear mandate of localisation from our chairman, who led the B20 [part of the G20] and was a flagbearer of ‘Make in India.’

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