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PEUGEOT Cycles introducing new range of connected electric bikes designed and manufactured by startup Beweel

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The new connected electric bikes, addressing B2C and B2B targets, will be designed and manufactured by the start-up Beweel. Beweel, for its part, will market the 3 new models of connected bicycles through its own distribution channels. In 2022, the European market for electric bikes reached the record figure of 5.5

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Renault Trucks creates Used Parts Factory

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To reduce natural resource usage and its trucks’ environmental impact, Renault Trucks (part of the Volvo Group) is taking steps to transition its industrial operations to a circular-economy approach. At this new industrial facility located in Vénissieux, the brand’s trucks will be dismantled , and their parts reused.

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DOE labs using exascale computing to advance additive manufacturing

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing the Exascale Additive Manufacturing project ( ExaAM ). Turner et al.

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Ford using autonomous mobile robot to operate 3D printers at Advanced Manufacturing Center

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At Ford’s Advanced Manufacturing Center, a mobile robot from KUKA operates the 3D printers completely on its own. This new process has the ability to change the way we use robotics in our manufacturing facilities. —Jason Ryska, director, global manufacturing technology development.

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Volkswagen to introduce electrode dry-coating in battery manufacturing; partnering with Koening & Bauer

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Volkswagen’s PowerCo SE plans to introduce an electrode dry-coating manufacturing process in its battery cell production plants in Europe and Northern America. As a result, two of four process steps in electrode manufacturing become obsolete. Our plants are designed for quick and easy retrofits.

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Cummins investing more than $1B in US engine manufacturing network

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In addition to recent investments in Fridley, Cummins is investing more than $1 billion across its US engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York. The X15N is part of the new fuel-agnostic 15-liter engine platform produced at JEP. The Cummins Power Systems factory is a 1.1

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New long-duration, extended capacity Na-Al battery design for grid storage

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The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. Compared with a seasonal battery, this new design is especially adept at short- to medium-term grid energy storage over 12 to 24 hours.