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AUGUST 10, 2022

explains more about the company’s plans to develop hydrogen-powered vehicles for the light commercial market. Based in Vancouver, Canada, and in London, UK, First Hydrogen Corp. Steve Gill, CEO of First Hydrogen Automotive.,

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Overall winner of the second annual Brighton to London RAC (Royal Automotive Club) Future Car Challenge on 5 November was former Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray and his T.27 The event was organized in three different entrants classes and seven vehicle categories—from small passenger classes to light commercial vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The projects, which are expected to run over four years, address battery challenges faced by industry and leverage the UK’s research capabilities to advance scientific knowledge with the aim of commercializing new battery technologies and processes. The five new projects are: Next generation electrode manufacturing–Nextrode.

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MAY 8, 2011

BP and Davy Process Technology announced collaborations with three EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contractors to promote the commercialization of the BP/Davy Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Process. The planed commercial reactors will use the same tube dimensions and metallurgy as in the demonstration plant—i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Current customers of Ashwoods’ Hybrid Transit vans include Riverford Organics, the Environment Agency, Transport for London and the Borders Agency, plus the councils of Camden, Coventry, Gateshead, Hackney, Islington, Leeds and Liverpool. The Ashwoods motor generator unit. Click to enlarge. Stop/start.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Projects include: Artemis Intelligent Power: in Greater London, non-mobile machinery contributes 10% of all NO x emissions and 11% of all PM 10 emissions. The projects have the potential to save more than 3 million tonnes CO 2. Earlier post.).

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JULY 3, 2012

After a formal evaluation of available technologies performed by Fluor Corporation on behalf of Solena, Oxford Catalysts was selected by Solena as the sole supplier of FT technology for GreenSky London. In the second step of the overall process, Solena uses the Fischer-Tropsch reaction to transform the syngas into light FT liquids and FT wax.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Today, Li-S is twice as light as Li-ion and has reached only 10% of the sulfur theoretical energy density (2600Wh/kg) at cell prototype level (250-300Wh/kg), with potentially 800Wh/l (600Wh/kg) achievable by improving materials, components and manufacturing. The project will look into four areas with OXIS playing a key part in all of them.

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APRIL 25, 2017

The DRIVEN consortium—led by artificial intelligence company Oxbotica , which is developing next-gen autonomous vehicles—will test a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in an end-to-end journey from London to Oxford. DRIVEN is supported by a £8.6-million

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JANUARY 20, 2022

LCV : Light Commercial Vehicle. A catch-all term for any commercial vehicle (vans, pick-up trucks etc.) This area covers most of Greater London (and will be coming to some other cities too), which was introduced to penalise the heaviest diesel polluters. An ever-growing radius of central London.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The aim of the project is to build, install, operate and demonstrate a 10 kW Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Combined Heat & Power system in a high profile demonstration programme to accelerate the development and potential for commercial exploitation in large domestic (multi-dwelling) and light commercial applications.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 10, 2022

Twenty-seven commercial CCUS projects are operational as of 2021, with another 108 in the pipeline. Ships, on the other hand, could safely transport varying amounts of CO 2 over long ranges for a relatively low cost, says Toby Lockwood , a carbon-capture technology and markets expert at the Clean Air Task Force, in London.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

ITM Power has signed an agreement with Symbio FCell and Arcola Energy to provide an integrated package of fuel-cell-based commercial vehicles, on-site fuel and after-sales support for UK commercial fleet operators. T electric light duty truck is being tested at La Poste and will be commercially available in 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

At the 64 th IAA Commercial Vehicle International Motor Show in Hanover, the company unveiled the new Panel Van version of the e-NV200 Concept, decorated with Nissan and FedEx graphics and logos. Nissan and FedEx Express engineers began in December 2011 co-testing the e-NV200 prototype on the streets of London, UK. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 12, 2009

London’s electric vehicle specialist, NICE Car Company, has resumed trading as the London sales arm of AIXAM-MEGA Ltd, maker of the MEGA e-City electric passenger vehicle and the MEGA Multitruck range of ultra-light electric and diesel commercial vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

million) by the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre to develop zero-emission Dearman Engine technology ( earlier post ) and applications, helping to move it into manufacturing and full commercial deployment. A consortium, led by Dearman, the clean cold and power technology company, has been awarded £6 million (US$7.9 Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Because hemoglobin in the red blood cells absorbs visible light, Richards-Kortum’s team developed a fiber-optic probe that can produce images of the underlying network of new vessels. Connected on one side is a flexible fiber bundle, just 1 mm in diameter, with a light source and a digital CCD camera inside.

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JULY 7, 2015

The FlySafe research aims to provide best-practice design guidelines for the safety containment systems of high speed flywheels, appropriate for commercial mass market deployment of these systems. A key output of the project in this respect will be a proposed BSI flywheel safety standard. FlySafe test environment. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Buses with Elfa drives are now being used in a number of cities worldwide, including a test fleet of double-deckers in London. This new drive technology is also targeted for other commercial vehicles that make frequent stops, such as garbage trucks or light delivery trucks.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

We started one year ago at TechCrunch in London with the vision of partnering with cities to improve the efficiency on their streets. The seats are equipped with convenience features such as dimmable reading lights and USB ports. —Eckhard Scholz, member of the Executive Board of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

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MAY 28, 2023

AlphaGarden is a combination of a commercial gantry robot farming system and UC Berkeley’s AlphaGardenSim, which tells the robot what to do to maximize plant health and growth. But the real question is this: Can you usefully tend a garden with a robot in a way that is as effective as a human tending that same garden? Time for some SCIENCE!

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

light-to-electricity efficiency, respectively, and when illuminated with 1 sun of AM 1.5 silicon-based light absorbers and earth-abundant catalysts, the. These catalysts have been interfaced directly with a commercial triple junction amorphous silicon (3jn-a-Si) solar cell (Xunlight Corp.) simulated sunlight. —Reece et al.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

based TerraPower and London- and Italy-based Newcleo should be safer and simpler to operate than conventional reactors. Four nuclear-powered merchant ships have been built so far, all of them government-led projects begun mostly for developmental and testing reasons rather than purely commercial ones. Why nuclear-powered ships?

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JUNE 1, 2010

a 2007 spin out from Imperial College London, has launched its new generation of Axial Flux motor and generator technology. EVO is also developing larger models for commercial vehicle applications and an ultra-compact motor suitable for light-duty electric vehicle applications. Source: Dr. M. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 7, 2017

of total passenger light-duty vehicles in circulation in 2016. London for its part encourages EV adoption by waiving its congestion charge. Sources: IEA analysis based on EVI country submissions, complemented by EAFO (2017a), IHS Polk (2016), MarkLines (2017), ACEA (2017a, 2017b) and EEA (2017). Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Volta Trucks, a start-up electric vehicle manufacturer, has revealed the new Volta Zero—its first vehicle and the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle designed specifically for inner-city parcel and freight distribution.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Smith Electric Vehicles is unveiling a new telemetry system specifically engineered for commercial electric vehicles at the Commercial Vehicle Operator Show 2010, Birmingham, England, 13 to 15 April. Smith Telemetry aims to simplify fleet management of commercial electric vehicles, while also reducing costs.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Electric vehicle recharging specialists Elektromotive has installed England’s first three-phase charging station, specially designed to recharge electric light commercial vehicles. Based on Elektromotive’s Elektrobay electric vehicle [.].

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MARCH 23, 2017

The London Taxi Company (LTC) officially opened the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range-extended electric vehicles. The all-new electric taxi goes on sale first in London in Q4 2017, and then globally in early 2018. —Carl-Peter Forster, Chairman of the London Taxi Company.

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APRIL 23, 2014

million) in the latest round of IDP10 funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to support the development of a heat-recovery system for urban commercial vehicles. —Chris Reeves, Commercial Manager of Future Transport Technologies at MIRA. A consortium led by the Dearman Engine Company has been awarded £1.86 million (US$3.12

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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JULY 5, 2010

Where we stand: July 2010 Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has been in the news after striking a deal with Transport for London to bring four i-MiEV electric vehicles to the nation’s capital (see article).

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JULY 16, 2022

Submarines can now be detected by the tiny amounts of radiation and chemicals they emit, by slight disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic fields, and by reflected light from laser or LED pulses. Even though this is a commercially available technology, we still don’t see submarines in real time today,” Lewis says.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Other consortium members include Ford, IAV, BP, University of Nottingham and Imperial College London. Having concentrated on 12-volt micro-hybrid applications for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, the company has started looking at the application of its technology to 24-volt systems initially for small trucks and buses.

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JULY 17, 2023

The light commercial vehicle (LCV) has spent the last few weeks operating from one of SSE’s sites in Aberdeen, which is located next to a hydrogen fuel station. The company has developed hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered light commercial demonstrator vehicles (LCV) under two agreements with AVL Powertrain and Ballard Power Systems Inc.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

His team entered its “Project Spread the Light: Provide Electricity in a Small Settlement” in the 2009 IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Project Competition, which was for students who had developed solutions to real-world problems. The London Stock Exchange identified GVE as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Africa in 2019.

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