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APRIL 7, 2025

General Motors is using an all-electric Corvette to draw attention to its new UK design studio in Royal Leamington Spa, outside of Birmingham. While the C9 Corvette is expected to debut as a 2029 model year, the automaker has asked its other design studios (Detroit, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Seoul) to produce Corvette concepts for 2025.

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MAY 15, 2025

Earlier this week, The Boring Company (TBC) announced that it has continuously mined in a Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT) configuration. A Tesla executive responded to TBC’s latest milestone and explained how Elon Musk’s tunneling company will create Tesla’s robotaxi future. Will need this big time in the future.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Sacrilege Motors, a bespoke performance, restoration and electric-conversion studio, is partnering with UK-based powertrain supplier Fellten , a designer and manufacturer of systems used in converting classic cars into electric vehicles.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Taking the EV skateboard chassis to another level The so-called skateboard chassis is a staple of modern EV design. To a large extent, vehicles are designed around their propulsion systems. When a certain American startup designed its second-generation vehicle, it put the battery pack on the bottom, in a flat platform.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Wisk Aero, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company, revealed the first self-flying, all-electric, four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Wisk is one of the only AAM companies to pursue a self-flying first approach. Wisk’s 6 th Generation aircraft is designed with a price target of $3 per passenger, per mile.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Charge CCCV (C4V), a lithium ion battery technology company ( earlier post ), has introduced LiSER (Lithium Slim Energy Reserve), a novel cell technology platform. C4V’s LiSER technology encompasses an in-house patented battery cell design that allows OEMs to bypass modules and build the pack directly.

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MAY 6, 2023

Westinghouse Electric Company launched its newest nuclear technology, the AP300 small modular reactor (SMR), a 300-MWe (900MWth) single-loop pressurized water reactor. The AP300 SMR design is scaled from the advanced, proven AP1000 reactor and is the only SMR truly based on an N th -of-a-kind operating plant.

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MAY 10, 2023

The other projects include efforts to bring a microreactor design closer to deployment, tackle nuclear regulatory hurdles, improve operations of existing reactors, and facilitate new advanced reactor developments. The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $22.1 This funding opportunity is administered by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Israeli startup EVR Motors has partnered with India’s EKA Mobility, an electric vehicles and technology company, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries Limited, to design small, lightweight electric motors for their e-buses and Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) in India.

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JULY 24, 2022

The vehicles are designed from the ground-up with safety, sustainability, and comfort in mind, and have been thoroughly tested by drivers across the country. A strengthened door on the driver’s side for additional protection, and an ergonomically designed driver’s cabin and cargo area for safe, and easy movement inside the van.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

The companies will demonstrate the connected and automation-ready, zero-emission, battery-powered machine at bauma 2022 from 24-30 October at Messe München. Komatsu provided the vehicle-level design and assembly, including structural configurations that take advantage of Moog’s intelligent machine electrification system.

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JANUARY 21, 2023

The broadened relationship provides significant benefits to both companies, including conducting complementary cell development and manufacturing activities at both Solid Power and the BMW Group to further advance all-solid-state cell design and manufacturing know-how. In September 2022, BMW Group announced its Gen6 Li-Ion cell.

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APRIL 7, 2021

EODev—along with its partners—is positioning itself as a leading European designer, assembler and distributor zero-emission energy systems on an industrial scale. Both companies worked together to develop hydrogen products around the Toyota modular fuel cell system. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

a company successful in Taiwan, and features a battery that can be replaced at any of the charging stations installed across town. 01(Huan Dian Shou 01) is the first product that the company developed for electric motorcycles, and is installed inside???01(Huan 01(Huan Dian Shou 01)’s rear wheel.

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JULY 15, 2022

Hyundai Motor’s rolling labs are vehicles in which the company tests and verifies advanced technologies to apply them to future production models. RN22e melds the all-new IONIQ 6 ( earlier post ) and the company’s Electric-Global Modular Platform (E? N Vison 74 (left), RN22e (right). N Vision 74 Specifications: L / W / H // WB.

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MARCH 16, 2023

The electric vehicle features front-wheel drive, range of up to 450 km, innovative technological features such as Travel Assist, IQ.LIGHT or Electric Vehicle Route Planner and a new Volkswagen design language. Volkswagen is also again placing greater focus on design. Volkswagen will present the production version of the ID.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2025

Now, two companiesGermanys Proxima Fusion and Tennessee-based Type One Energy have taken a major step forward, publishing peer-reviewed blueprints for their competing stellarator designs. Proxima detailed its fully integrated stellarator power plant concept, called Stellaris, in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design. The downside?

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MARCH 7, 2023

Hyundai Motor Company held a digital world premiere to unveil the new upscaled KONA in the B-SUV segment, led by an all-electric variant (EV) that offers advanced safety and convenience features and class-leading range. Compared to the previous generation KONA, the new model has unique proportions with increased dimensions.

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MAY 2, 2023

REE Automotive revealed P7-C, a Class 4 chassis cab offering a new cabin design built on REE’s P7 modular electric platform. P7-C was developed based on direct feedback from ongoing customer evaluations of proof-of-concept vehicles and is designed to meet fleet owners’ specific needs. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Atlis Motor Vehicles (Atlis), a vertically integrated start-up EV company developing an electric work truck and the batteries and motors to drive it, signed a collaborative agreement with ArcelorMittal, the leading producer of automotive steels, to help speed its product development.

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APRIL 9, 2025

One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. At the Airbus Summit , a symposium for journalists on 24 and 25 March, top executives sketched out a bold, tech-forward vision for the companys next couple of generations of aircraft.

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APRIL 8, 2022

Nissan unveiled its prototype production facility for laminated all-solid-state battery (ASSB) cells, which the company aims to bring to market in 2028. This prototype facility, within the Nissan Research Center in Kanagawa Prefecture, is aimed to further promote the development of all-solid-state-batteries.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Sila, a next-generation battery materials company, announced the availability of its high-performance nano-composite silicon (NCS) anode material, Titan Silicon. Titan Silicon delivers a 20% energy density boost over the industry’s best performing cells and will achieve a 40% increase in future releases, according to the company.

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MAY 24, 2023

Astroinno battery pack The Astroinno battery pack adopts sandwich-structure double-sided liquid cooling technology and a minimalist design approach, which reduces the number of structural parts of the battery pack by 45% and lowers the weight of structural parts by 32%. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 4, 2023

Compared to current piston diesel engines, the XTS-210 design reduces size and weight by nearly 80%, while maintaining comparable power output. This announcement builds upon a $9-million development contract from the US Army to develop a prototype core engine based on the XTS-210 design for military applications. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 31, 2023

By providing capital—in addition to supplying state-of-the-art battery materials under the JDA—Umicore intends to work with Blue Current to drive market adoption of the company’s silicon elastic composite battery towards mid-decade.

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MARCH 23, 2022

StoreDot, the developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles, reports being the first company to test silicon-dominant cells for more than 1000 cycles. I’m hugely proud of our recent achievement.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The company will produce the enclosures at its Magna Electric Vehicle Structures facility in St. Magna is making two versions of the steel battery enclosure for the HUMMER EV, designed to fit the short- and long-wheelbase versions of the truck. Clair, Michigan, where it already produces the battery enclosure for the GMC HUMMER EV.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Stellantis will work with Archer to stand up Archer’s recently announced manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia at which the companies plan to begin manufacturing the Midnight aircraft in 2024. Stellantis has been a strategic partner to Archer since 2020 through various collaboration initiatives, and as an investor since 2021.

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MAY 11, 2022

The company is building on its nearly century-long expertise of school bus manufacturing to expand its zero-emission transportation solutions to the commercial vehicle market. School bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation unveiled a Class 5-6 electric vehicle platform at the 2022 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

a leading AI company with strong internet foundation, has secured the first permits in China to offer commercial fully driverless robotaxi services to the public on open roads. Baidu, Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CRRC Datong developed the locomotive, using the hydrogen fuel cell system developed by SPIC Hydrogen Energy Company. said that the hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive has a design speed of 80 km/h. Li Lingtao, deputy chief engineer with CRRC Datong Co., It can run with 700 kW of continuous power for 24.5

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Both companies have set out to prove that hydrogen can safely and efficiently deliver power for civil aero engines and are already planning a second set of tests, with a longer-term ambition to carry out flight tests. Following this, the company will purchase a Dassault Falcon 50, which they expect to have in the skies in early 2024.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The 20-inch wheel and tire combination fitted to oli marries a new hybrid wheel prototype design with a conceptual, sustainable and intelligent tire co-created with Goodyear. The minimalistic approach paved the way for a refreshing and innovative design. Citroën worked closely with BASF during development and design.

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MAY 13, 2025

A new company out of Germany called ONOX is bringing sustainable technology to the agriculture industry. After garnering design awards, the ONOX electric tractor prototype is in operation overseas as its makers look to scale and bring its unique modular design, complete with swappable battery packs, to farms everywhere.

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JUNE 17, 2023

The company will continue to explore new emerging technologies. The company said it looked closely at the state of the art in energy storage and realistic five-year developments, excluding technological revolutions that no one can speculate on.

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JULY 27, 2023

Lithium-metal solid-state battery company QuantumScape (QS) announced that it is working closely with a prospective launch customer in the automotive sector for the first commercial QS product. QuantumScape also uses a proprietary ceramic separator coupled with an organic gel electrolyte for the cathode (catholyte).

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