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Schindler Elevator Corporation to deploy 50 Canoo electric vans to its fleet

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Schindler Elevator Corporation plans to implement , through its fleet management company, the use of fifty (50) 2023 Canoo Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle (LDV) battery-electric vans. The first in its industry to announce its intent to use EV light-duty vans in the United States, Schindler is committed to net-zero emission by 2040.

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Isuzu, Toyota, Hino, and CJPT to promote planning and development of mass-market light-duty fuel cell electric trucks

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Isuzu Motors, Toyota Motor, Hino Motors, and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) will jointly plan and develop light-duty fuel cell (FC) electric trucks for the mass-market. The companies will also promote the introduction of FC electric trucks to the market along with their widespread use.

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Major companies with large fleets release new EV roadmap for car & truck manufacturers

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Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance presented top vehicle manufacturers, including Volvo, GM, Daimler and Toyota, with a roadmap for developing the types of electric vehicles that companies plan to acquire in the US over the next five years. —Sara Forni, director of clean vehicles at Ceres.

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BMW Group Plant Landshut light metal foundry recertified by Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

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The auditing criteria require evidence of material stewardship, such as a holistic lifecycle analysis for the company’s own products and a comprehensive recycling strategy, as well as compliance with standards for transparency, overall management and corporate integrity. Green power is also used to produce it.

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TEPCO and Toyota develop stationary storage battery system using EV batteries

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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. TEPCO HD) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) have developed a stationary storage battery system (1 MW output, 3 MWh capacity) that combines TEPCO’s operating technology and safety standards for stationary storage batteries and Toyota’s system technology for electrified vehicle storage batteries.

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Athabasca Oil Corporation green-lights $536M Hangingstone SAGD oil sands project

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The Board of Directors of Canada-based Athabasca Oil Corporation has given the go-ahead to the company’s $536-million Hangingstone 1 SAGD (steam-assisted gravity drainage) Project; the company also reaffirmed that its Light Oil Division is on track to meet its year-end production target of 10,000 to 11,000 barrels of oil.

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Tata CFO Balaji Pushes for asset-light model in e-bus procurement | Autocar Professional

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Balaji, urged a shift towards an asset-light model for electric bus procurement in India. Balaji’s comments come in response to a query by Autocar Professional on Uttar Pradesh State Transport Corporation’s recent tender for 5,000 electric buses on a net cost contract (NCC) basis. Tata Motors’ Group CFO, P.B.

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