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Hyundai Motor and Kia revamp R&D organization to make it more agile, flexible and independent like startups

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Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are reorganizing their joint research and development (R&D) organization to be able to respond flexibly to the rapidly changing global automotive industry, advance the transition to electrification and accelerate the development of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

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NTU Singapore to develop technologies to extract hydrogen from liquid organic hydrogen carriers

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Liquid organic hydrogen carriers are flexible media for the storage and transportation of renewable energy. —Masaji Santo, President & COO, Chiyoda Corporation. The project builds on previous work by the group of companies, along with researchers from NTU and the NUS.

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Six Japan-based companies establish Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels

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ENEOS Corporation, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Subaru Corporation, Daihatsu Motor Co. Toyota Motor Corporation , and Toyota Tsusho Corporation established the Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels (Research Association) to study ways to optimize the process of producing fuel.

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How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals

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How Corporations Can Help the U.S. Reach its EV Goals A Look at the Pathway & Companies’ Role U.S. Meanwhile, the electrification of city- and corporate-owned vehicles has been dominating recent headlines. And large corporations like Amazon aren’t the only ones currently converting their fleets from gas to electric.

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Electrolyzer company Hystar raises US$26M to scale up to full commercial operations

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Hystar AS, a Norway-based electrolyzer company, announced a Series B funding round of US$26 million to support the scale-up to full commercial operations with an automated GW-capacity production line by 2025. The round was co-led by AP Ventures and Mitsubishi Corporation.

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Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi and 6 other Japanese companies to establish organization for membership-based EV quick charging services

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Overview of Charging Network Development Organization, LLC charging service. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC); Honda Motor Co., Mitsubishi Motors Corporation; ULVAC, Inc.; Kanematsu Corporation; Kandenko Co., The organization plans to start such services in fiscal year 2012. Toyota Motor Corporation.

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11 Japanese auto, infrastructure and financial companies establishing new company to develop hydrogen stations

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As a result of discussions that began in May 2017, eleven companies in Japan have signed an agreement to form a new company in the spring of 2018 aimed at the full-fledged development of hydrogen recharging stations (HRS) for fuel cell vehicles (FCV). The initial partners include Toyota Motor Corporation; Nissan Motor Co.,

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