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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

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Since 2018, the E-Mobility Group has bundled Daimler Trucks & Buses’ global know-how in the field of e-mobility and now defines the strategy for electric components and products across brands and segments. Global electric truck portfolio at Daimler Trucks.

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Daimler Truck North America and partners to form JV for nationwide charging network for MD and HD commercial vehicles

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In the area of electric charging or hydrogen refueling infrastructure along important transport routes, Daimler Trucks collaborates with Shell, BP and TotalEnergies. Initial focus will be on charging stations for battery electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicles followed by hydrogen fueling stations for fuel cell trucks.

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EPRI and GTI launch Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI) to accelerate low-carbon energy technologies

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The Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI) is an international collaborative spanning the electric and gas sectors that will help advance global, economy-wide deep decarbonization. With increasingly ambitious decarbonization goals from private companies and governments alike, existing technology is not enough to achieve those targets.

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Daimler developing battery-electric version of Econic HD truck; customer testing in 2021, series production in 2022

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With our global platform strategy, we are applying uniform technologies and vehicle architectures also for electric vehicles worldwide, and can accelerate development enormously through synergies. The E-Mobility Group is developing a globally uniform electric architecture – analogous to the global platform strategy for conventional vehicles.

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Daimler electric trucks & buses log more than 7M customer kilometers

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Thanks to our global presence, customers all over the world are testing various vehicle concepts in diverse practical applications. In the United States, the heavy-duty eCascadia and the medium-duty eM2 were premiered in Portland in June 2018. This motivated us to place electric trucks in the hands of customers at an early stage.

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NREL study focuses on growing use and impacts of ride-hailing services at airports

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Global demand for air travel is expected to double by 2035, and new airport infrastructure investments and modernization upgrades—costing tens of billions of dollars—are anticipated. Both air travel and the use of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are on the rise in cities around the world.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Hydrogen Contaminant Detector, $150,000 Skyre, Inc., Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Fusion Joining of Thermoplastic Composites Using Energy Efficient Processes, $150,000 GE Global Research, U.S., Redmond, Wash. Niskayuna, N.Y.