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LOTTE, Sumitomo of Americas and Syzygy Plasmonics to partner on photocatalytic cracking of ammonia to produce hydrogen

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The reactor will be installed and brought online in the second half of 2023 at LOTTE Chemical HQ facilities in Ulsan, South Korea. Plans include importing green ammonia that can be readily transported and stored before it is converted into clean hydrogen with expectations of generating 1.2

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End of production for BMW i3; 250,000 units over 8 and a half years

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Next year, the next generation of the MINI Countryman will be manufactured at the same location—with a fully electric drive, among other things. In this way, the electric mobility expertise of the workforce, which has been built up over the past years, will be used and advanced further.

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Mercedes-Benz delivers electric eActros heavy-duty truck to Logistik Schmitt for testing; countering catenaries

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Mercedes-Benz Trucks has handed over a fully electric eActros truck to Murg Valley (Southern Germany)-based logistics company Logistik Schmitt. As part of the eWayBW project, commercial transport will be electric on the B462 federal road around Rastatt with the test operation of catenary trucks as of 2020.

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Mercedes-Benz EQC electric crossover makes US debut at CES 2019

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In this way, any command which is controllable via MBUX can be stored for simple access. The high-safety design begins with the installation position of the high-voltage battery beneath the vehicle floor. One typical favorite command is “navigate me home.” The energy storage unit is surrounded by a stable frame that can absorb energy.

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Skoda to set up second life battery hubs to power its retailers

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It will install power hubs across all its retailer network which is made from lithium-ion batteries sourced from its old electric vehicles. The power hubs can hold up to 20 batteries from various Skoda plug-in hybrid models (Superb iV and Octavia iV) or five batteries from its fully electric Enyaq iV.

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Volkswagen’s ID.3 debuts for the European market

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3 is the first Volkswagen based on the newly developed, modular electric drive matrix – abbreviated to MEB. models will also be exclusively available with fully electric drive. The 12 V DC electrical system is simultaneously supplied with low voltage by a DC/DC converter. All future ID. Intuitive operation.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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We want to predict where we need to build the next electric charging station.”. So it’s a good moment to consider where vehicle-to-grid concepts first emerged and to see in Utrecht how far they’ve come. But from the time Kempton and Letendre outlined the concept, potential users also feared losing money, through battery wear and tear.

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