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Volkswagen Group and SEAT will invest €10B in electrification in Spain given PERTE VEC acceptance

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Last week, the 62 national and international companies and benchmark firms that form the project applied to the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation program (in Spanish, PERTE) for the Electric and Connected Vehicle (in Spanish, VEC). This is the biggest industrial investment ever made in Spain.

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Cepsa to invest €3B in Andalusia to build the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe; additional €2B for renewable power

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Cepsa—the Spain-based multinational oil and gas company—will invest more than €3 billion to establish the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, creating the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe in southern Spain. Andalusia has world-class port infrastructure, connected to the main ports of Europe and the world.

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Vodafone Launches Private 5G Tech to Compete With Wi-Fi

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wireless connectivity standard ) was once the only viable game in town. Because each SIM card contains its own unique identifier and encryption keys , thereby also enabling a network to be able to recognize and authorize each individual connection, Tenorio says private 5G network security is a considerable selling point.

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Study shows nearly half of Europeans text while driving

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An average of 48% of motorists surveyed from Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia confessed to checking their texts while driving, with 61% of Italian motorists saying they had done so compared with 55% in Russia, 49% in France and Germany, 40% in Spain and 33% in Great Britain. Earlier post.).

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SEAT to introduce 500 km MEB-based EV, Leon PHEV in 2020

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In addition, the brand will remain committed to vehicles powered with compressed natural gas (CNG) as well as internal combustion engines. And in 2020, the new EV will be joined by the first CUV (Crossover Utility Vehicle) in the SEAT model line-up as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the new generation Leon. billion (US$4.1

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Plug In America joins global alliance

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We are so excited to be joining with our international colleagues in the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance,” said Joel Levin, executive director of Plug In America. The Alliance released this video to promote awareness of the Alliance. “We We hope to see other countries join us!

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London transport operator Go-Ahead adds two Irizar electric i2e buses to fleet after successful operating results

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For over a year, these two buses have been operating on the busy routes 507, connecting Waterloo Station with Victoria Station, and 521, which connect Waterloo Station with London Bridge Station. Spain-based Irizar Group is a leading business group in the bus and coach sector. The vehicle fleet is just over 2,400 buses.

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