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JULY 4, 2017

AK Steel signed an agreement to acquire Precision Partners Holding Company, a leading North American automotive market company that provides engineering, tooling, die design and hot and cold stamped steel parts, for $360 million in cash.

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MAY 7, 2022

In parallel to the successful launch of DRIVE PILOT in Germany, Mercedes-Benz aims to obtain regulatory series approval for the two US states of California and Nevada by the end of the year, provided the legal situation permits the system operation. —Britta Seeger, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes?Benz

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK), and ENEOS Corporation announced that Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has approved the companies’ participation in a demonstration project for the commercialization of high-power Fuel Cell (FC) vessels. Application to vessels through new vessel design and development.

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MAY 13, 2022

Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Nikola Corporation, a designer and developer of BEV and FCEV Class 8 trucks is executing a reverse merger with VectoIQ Acquisition Corp. to create a company focused on the development of next generation smart transportation. Current Nikola stockholders will remain majority owners of the combined company at closing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2021

The company recently signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Triathlon Batteries GmbH, the largest German manufacturer of battery systems for industrial trucks, to supply 3D printed battery cells with several 100MWh per year. This process, known as Blackstone Pre-Life-Technology, will offer customers levels of flexibility in vehicle design.

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JULY 10, 2021

Less than one year after its launch, the French battery company Verkor has raised €100 million (US$119 million) in funding. Barber Hauler Capital Advisers, Santander Corporate & Investment Banking acted as financial advisors to the company, and De Gaulle and Fleurance & Associés as legal advisors.

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MARCH 29, 2022

million (subject to the grant decision becoming legally valid). The 3D-printed solid-state batteries produced as part of the project will be installed in an electric bus operated by the Berlin-based company Eurabus in order to demonstrate their performance under: real-world conditions.

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JUNE 14, 2023

The list of participating companies includes: Automotive OEM Ford Otosan will provide different batteries to enable demonstration of automatic disassembly and will be involved in the development of a standardized battery labeling system.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Safety Strategies for Your Trucking Company. This step-by-step guide will provide you with strategies and tips to improve the safety of your trucking company. From pre-trip inspections to driver training, we’ll guide you through the steps you need to take to make your company as safe as possible.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not be required to testify in a lawsuit alleging that the company’s Autopilot system caused the death of Apple software engineer Walter Huang in a fatal Model X crash in 2018. The family’s legal team must do this before it pushes the Tesla CEO to take the witness stand, the Judge noted.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Robotic Research, a leading developer of autonomous mobility and robotics solutions, today announced a $228-million funding round—the first outside capital the company has raised. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP acted as legal advisor, and Covington & Burling LLP acted as special counsel to Robotic Research.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When Atari released its home videogame machine, the VCS, in 1977, the company thought it might be able to sell four or five game cartridges to each purchaser of the hardware. So in 1982, IEEE Spectrum associate editor Paul Wallich and I set out to learn everything we could about the design of that popular game machine.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 18, 2024

Tesla is set to bring the Cybertruck, its all-electric pickup with a polarizing design, to China for display in several showrooms. CEO Elon Musk said earlier this week that he is not sure if the pickup will be able to jump through regulatory hurdles in China as it would be difficult to get it approved to be “road legal.”

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Tesla’s 2-million-vehicle Autopilot “recall” involved the company releasing software version 2023.44.30 The Senator noted that the NHTSA recall is far from sufficient, and that the agency “must put its legal muscle where its mouth is.” NHTSA must put its legal muscle where its mouth is.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Continental has submitted a plan of action to the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection with which the company intends immediately to reduce the lead content in some of its electronic components to legally prescribed maximum quantities in accordance with the End of Life Vehicles Directive.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The document is designed to outline a common industry-supported definition and straightforward approach for measuring recycled content of automotive products consistent with those approaches outlined in other standards. —Reeshemah Howard, Sustainability Mission Leader, General Motors.

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JUNE 25, 2021

The new technologies are also designed to specifically address those traffic situations which result in a large portion of remaining severe injuries and fatalities found today. With the new safety package, Volvo Cars aims to reduce collisions and the reduction rate is anticipated to accelerate over time via over-the-air software updates.

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Electrek

JULY 29, 2022

The first time I saw the Fantic ISSIMO electric bike on a trip to Milan last year, I instantly fell in love with the design. And now that the company is offering a 45 km/h (28 mph) version that maxes out the legally-allowable speed, I’m even more head over heels for this eye-catching electric bike.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Automated Valet Parking, to the extent legally allowed where used, enables vehicles to proceed to an assigned space and for the user to retrieve the vehicle via their smartphone. Automated Valet Parking begins when the user parks the vehicle in a designated drop-off area before sending it to be parked using a smartphone app.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 16, 2021

A photo of Tesla’s hiring campaign lists that Tesla China is beefing up its PR and legal affairs team. The list of positions includes slots on the foreign affairs team, human resources, and the legal affairs department. The positions for the legal affairs team and human resources are very telling.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The brand will debut a Tesla Model S rival near the end of November, according to a company executive. According to details the SCMP found on China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology website, the EV will be built on the Chery Auto E0X platform, designed for all-wheel-drive, dual-motor vehicles. automaker’s legal team.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The conditional commitment follows DOE technical, market, financial and legal due diligence and marks another significant milestone endorsing Li-Cycle’s development of the first commercial hydrometallurgical resource recovery facility in North America, located near Rochester, New York. Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Almost two years after the launch of the initiative, the company is taking the next strategic step and publishing the FOSS Movement. In addition to the Open Source Office, employees from the vehicle development, corporate IT and legal departments, as well as Porsche Digital, were involved in the development of the FOSS Movement.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Con Ed issued a request for expressions of interest from EV charging companies last September, and expects to finalize details of the extension in April. The DOT has already received 32 responses from interested companies, including itselectric , Voltpost and FLO , which installed the curbside chargers for the pilot.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Tesla Insurance will face a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company charged drivers too much for premiums by using “false” crash warnings, after a California judge ruled against the automaker this week. A Tesla spokesperson and the insurance arm’s legal team have not responded to requests for comment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

The binding supply agreement will be negotiated in a continued constructive and legally compliant way to conclude by the end of 2022. Designed as an open vehicle platform, the MEB electric platform and its components allows car manufacturers to build their portfolio of electrified vehicles, quickly and cost-effectively.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 14, 2024

At CES 2024, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, leading mobility technology company Magna introduced a breath and camera-based pre-development technology designed to combat impaired driving. The technology is intended to passively detect an intoxicated driver with a blood alcohol concentration at or above the legal limit of 0.08

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JUNE 1, 2020

Following regulatory approvals, the company was founded at the end of April. The company’s goal is to expand its project business gradually and achieve a powerful workforce within the next five years. XL2 is designed to enable end-to-end digital manufacturing, covering all central.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we learned in our last installment , the Cadillac lineup was revised visually for 1957, and would be revised again in 1958 once quad headlamps became legal. & That slight stretch was accompanied by a new chassis design, as the C-body (and all Cadillacs in 1957) adopted a tubular X-frame setup.

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APRIL 22, 2022

The transaction contemplates a split of Cryoshelter into separate legal entities for the liquid hydrogen and liquid natural (renewable) gas businesses, enabling Hexagon Purus’ direct investment in early-stage liquid hydrogen tank technology. Key terms and structure of the transaction: Initial investment of €3.5

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The company plans to make self-driving buses and taxis by 2025, and Bridgestone has also joined Toyota in investing in the company, along with several others. The company says it has already been testing the self-driving tech in 12 cities, primarily in North America, and that it has been used over 350,000 times thus far.

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JULY 10, 2022

It will be a self-standing legal entity, operating under its own corporate identity and based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The JV intends to take a catalyzing role as a charge point operator (CPO) in the value-chain by installing and managing charging stations for heavy-duty trucks and coaches.

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JUNE 20, 2019

The agreement is designed to bring together the strengths of each party and expand expertise by assessing market opportunities, working together to research commercial, legal and regulatory issues related to driverless transportation-as-a-service offerings in France and Japan. Groupe Renault, Nissan Motor Co.,

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JULY 27, 2023

We will share Smart EV technologies and world-class design and engineering capability with each other and learn from each other. —Jürgen Rittersberger, Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG responsible for Finance, IT and Legal Affairs SAIC and Audi have signed a memorandum of understanding.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Another round of discussions about the company’s final permit approval will start on November 2, 2021. According to Brandenburg’s Ministry of the Environment, the State Office of the Environment thought it would be best to repeat the procedure to ensure that Tesla’s final permit is legally sound.

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JULY 23, 2017

On Sunday, the BMW Group issued a strong rejection of German media reports charging that the company had colluded with Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche and Daimler on the design and pricing of diesel exhaust systems and that its diesel emission systems did not function properly.

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