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Volkswagen Group to add 15 more plants to Industrial Cloud this year

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The Volkswagen Group is pushing ahead with the integration of its plants into the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud; the aim is to further improve the efficiency of the plants and reduce production costs. All in all, the Group expects cost savings totaling several billion euros when the data of all 124 plants can be evaluated in a standardized way.

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NuScale Power receives US NRC design approval for small modular reactor

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The NRC embraced the challenge of reviewing the first-ever small modular reactor DCA, which at the time not only marked an important milestone for NuScale, but also for the nuclear industry as a whole. NuScale has signed agreements with entities in the US, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Jordan.

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New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

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This also prevents over-supply enabling charge point operators to turn a profit, sustaining its industry. The top overall European countries in the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index: (1) Norway (2) Netherlands (3) Luxembourg (4) Germany (5) Switzerland (6) Denmark (7) Czech Republic (8) Bulgaria (9) Sweden (10) Belgium.

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Volkswagen to spend ~€44B on e-mobility, autonomous driving, new mobility services and digitalization through 2023

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Production of the Volkswagen Passat family will be moved to the ŠKODA plant in Kvasiny, Czech Republic, and these models will be built there together with the ŠKODA Superb and Kodiaq from 2023. The talks with Ford about an industrial cooperation announced earlier are progressing positively so far, Volkswagen said.

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Hyundai Motor to invest $85B over next 10 years to accelerate transition to smart mobility provider

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Furthermore, in order to secure leadership in the future mobility industry, it has decided to focus on future businesses, such as autonomous driving, hydrogen, robotics and advanced air mobility (AAM). The company is currently producing EVs in this way at its plants in the US, South Korea, the Czech Republic, and India.

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Pike Research: Europe to have 4.1M EV charging stations by 2020, but needs to address country-specific variations

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However, notes the report, the absence of a single alternating current (AC) EV charging connector standard has hampered the deployment of an EV charging infrastructure. The EU has declined to set a standard. The German industry has supported the Type 2 plug (the. Europe will have more than 2.9 —Pike Research report.

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Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing

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While laser printers do the big printing jobs in commercial settings, the inkjet printer has become the printer most of us use at home and at the office. To fill a standard letter page that has 2.5-centimeter The HP Jet Fusion 5200 industrial 3D printer uses an inkjet process to build parts out of nylon, polypropylene, or polyurethane.

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