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ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

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LiNa’s senior team has accumulated decades of materials engineering and design for manufacturing experience in the fuel cell industry. The partners regarded the trial as a complete success, with the system demonstrating the capability to charge and discharge in accordance with expectations.

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RMI report finds substantial emissions reductions possible with smart EV charging

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A new report from RMI has found that optimized charging of electric vehicles, which involves automatically and strategically shifting when an EV charges, could significantly reduce transportation sector emissions, and could potentially result in an average of 800 pounds of CO? saved per vehicle annually.

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Renault Group and Plug Power launch HYVIA joint venture; ecosystem of fuel cell LCVs, green hydrogen & refueling stations

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HYVIA’s activities will be carried out at existing Renault facilities in France: The head office of the joint venture as well as the R&D teams will be located at Villiers-Saint-Frédéric, with the light commercial vehicle engineering and development center for Renault Group, to maximize synergy across teams.

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Report: Mercedes-AMG Will Not Bring Back V8 Engines

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Earlier in the month, reports were circulating that Mercedes-AMG would be re-instituting V8 power for its high-performance variants of the C and E-Class. & According to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport , sources from within the company have denied suggestions that larger engines would be returning to the AMG C and E63.

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Mercedes-Benz GLC to ditch plug-in hybrid tech for Australia, EVs the focus

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“Our customers’ buying habits have moved away from plug-in hybrid and they are now predominantly looking at either an ICE (internal-combustion engine) vehicle or pure EV.” Larger battery packs mean they’re good for 100km-plus of real-world driving using only battery power. Mercedes-Benz GLC400e.

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This start-up wants to take on the CV biggies with a new tech-heavy electric truck – ET Auto

Baua Electric

They’ll take the engine out, put the motor there. This is the overall power drain that we’re expecting. The engineers and analysts try at the company level to understand if it is expected or there’s some anomaly. And then, when you do a retrofit, you are carrying forward a lot of old systems. “We

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New 600kW Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance hybrid hits 100km/h quicker than you can say its name

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Forget the multi-million-dollar Mercedes-AMG ONE hypercar and its real F1 engine because if you’re looking for the quickest Benz of all time you’ll need the Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance that will arrive in Australia in the first half of 2025. But even with half an engine it still produces 310kW.