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Octillion Power Systems enters US bus market to supply batteries for motorcoaches, city buses

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The order marks the company’s first time supplying batteries for motorcoaches and buses in North America. With its entry into the motorcoach and bus markets, Octillion’s batteries will be used to repower popular models including Van Hool T2145e highline touring coaches and TD high-capacity double-deck coaches to 100% battery-electric power.

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BNSF to build $1.5B integrated rail complex in Barstow to increase supply chain efficiency nationwide

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This process creates inefficiencies and unnecessary truck trips within the Los Angeles Basin and Inland Empire that can impact supply chain distribution, the environment, and communities surrounding ports and warehouses.

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Molicel to supply battery cells to Archer for production Midnight eVTOL

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Molicel ), a supplier of lithium-ion battery cells, entered into a memorandum of understanding for Molicel to manufacture and supply the battery cells for Archer’s production electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, Midnight. TCC is the first listing company in Taiwan stock market.

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Aemetis India Plant to supply $41M of biodiesel in two-month period to OMCs and India oil refiners

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Aemetis announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary in India, owner and operator of a biodiesel plant located near the Port of Kakinada on India’s east coast, was selected by the three government-controlled oil marketing companies (OMCs) and a major oil refiner to supply approximately 8,000,000 gallons of biodiesel over the next two months.

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Skeleton Technologies to supply supercap modules to Class8 Energy; €11.6M contract

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Through this agreement, Skeleton’s products will be distributed to the fast-growing North American heavy vehicles market. Since the beginning of the electrification of commercial vehicles, our efforts have turned to obtaining a better energy solution for the heavy duty and the off-road machinery diesel market.

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Venti Technologies secures $8M in seed round for autonomous mobility for logistics, supply chain and transportation markets

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Venti’s proprietary algorithms create powerful processing and fast reaction times, delivering practical advantages: Handling 30 – 40% change in the environment (compared to 5% for other leading industry players). The vehicles adapt to complex route conditions and can operate in unstructured and structured road environments.

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BNEF: China dominates the Li-ion battery supply chain, but Europe is on the rise

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China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. This has led to a boom in European cell plants, and the rest of the supply chain is also slowly making its way to Europe.

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