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JANUARY 8, 2014

Cientifica, an investment company focusing on the acquisition of businesses making use of advanced materials, graphene and emerging technologies, has signed an exclusivity agreement with London Graphene Ltd (LGL) jointly to explore a number of applications of graphene in energy storage. —Tim Harper, Chief Executive, Cientifica Plc.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

million grant award to deliver multiple Intelligent Energy Storage Systems (IESS) at various locations for Toronto Hydro and London Hydro. Canada-based Li-ion battery maker Electrovaya Inc. has received a $1.3-million This project is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Energy’s Smart Grid Fund.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Ford is launching a multi-million pound project designed to help improve air quality in London. million) grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre. Teaming up with our London partners, we will also be able to trial software and telematics with enormous potential to reduce emissions and costs in the city. million (US$5.8-million)

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JANUARY 29, 2023

Ilika will receive a grant of £2.8 The HISTORY (HIgh Silicon content anOdes for a solid-state batteRY) project will start on 1 February 2023 and focus on integrating high silicon content electrodes into Ilika’s Goliath SSB (solid state battery) for electric vehicles, to enable automotive-level performance.

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MARCH 30, 2015

million) by the UK Hydrogen Refueling Stations (HRS) Infrastructure Grants Scheme, run by the Office of Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV). The award is to build two new HRS in London, sited with strategic partners and for the upgrading of four existing ITM Power refueling stations. ITM Power has been awarded a total of £2.89 million (US$4.3

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MAY 22, 2016

China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH) has raised $400 million through the first Green Bond sale on the offshore market from a Chinese automobile company to support the design, development and production of range-extended electric vehicles by its UK subsidiary, the LondonTaxi Company (LTC), manufacturer of the iconic London Black Cab.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Olympic Delivery Authority has granted planning permission for a hydrogen refuelling facility to be built in east London—a major milestone in bringing a fleet of five hydrogen fuel cell buses into service. There are currently 56 hybrid buses operating in London’s bus fleet.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Eco City Vehicles PLC (ECV), a developer and supplier of eco-friendly commercial vehicles and the London licensed taxi, launched an all-electric prototype of the London-licensed Mercedes Vito taxi, developed by a consortium of companies including ECV’s manufacturing partner Penso, Mercedes Benz UK and Zytek Automotive. million (US$3.9-million)

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Sponsored by a grant from the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Center (APC), the £10-million (US$12.3-million) Aluminum extrusions and components for the CirConAl project will be prototyped and tested at Constellium’s University Technology Center (UTC) located at Brunel University London.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Overall winner of the second annual Brighton to London RAC (Royal Automotive Club) Future Car Challenge on 5 November was former Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray and his T.27 To win this event is truly special and could not have been achieved without the 50% grant from the Technology Strategy Board and my team. 27 electric vehicle.

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JUNE 24, 2010

DHL Supply Chain and London Stansted Airport recently signed agreements to participate in Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) of ITM Power’s transportable high pressure hydrogen refuelling unit (HFuel).

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JANUARY 22, 2024

million grant. The city proudly points out that, once its new e-fleet is fully operational, it will have more electric buses per capita than London or Glasgow. According to EV advocacy group Zemo , there are currently some 2,776 battery-operated buses in service in the UK, including 1,400 in London and nearly 500 in Scotland.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The Plug-in Car Grant will be distributed directly to consumers at the point of purchase and will be managed in a similar way to the grant made as part of the Government’s scrappage scheme. Qualifying criteria for the Plug-in Car Grant. Any changes to the scheme as a result of this review would be implemented from April 2012.

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JULY 2, 2009

The Department will assess the bids against published criteria and will award grant to the winners. This grant will help to meet the upfront cost of the vehicles. New hybrid buses in London. Bus operators and local authorities will be able to bid for funding toward the additional cost of buying a LCEB. The Optare Tempo hybrid.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The vehicle makes its first appearance as Ford prepares 20 PHEV Transits for the 12-month fleet customer trial in London that begins in late 2017. Commercial vehicles in London make 280,000 journeys on a typical weekday, traveling a total distance of 8 million miles (13 million kilometers). liter gasoline engine as a range extender.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 8, 2024

New campaign fully offsets the reduction in the Plug-in Taxi Grant (PiTG) which came into effect from April 2024 It is available on all new TX taxi models across all finance types offered by LEVC Financial Services with zero customer deposit and at a subsidised finance rate of 10.51% APR.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Businesses in London could save collectively save £200 million a year if just ten per cent of the vans registered in the city were electric, according to new analysis from the Energy Saving Trust. Firms could save 75 per cent in fuel costs, while also benefitting from plug-in van grant supplements[.]. Green credentials'

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

582 million (US$773 million) in grants for those buying zero or ultra-low emission vehicles to make them cheaper to buy and incentivize more people to make the transition. Innovation and finance: Developing the technologies needed to reach these new energy ambitions and make the City of London the global center of green finance.

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229).

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JULY 6, 2013

Components: Led by Professor Philip Mellor at the University of Bristol and involving the universities of Greenwich, Nottingham, Manchester, Warwick and Imperial College London. Drives: Led by Professor Barrie Mecrow at the University of Newcastle and involving the universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Bristol.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The project’s Principal Investigator is Professor Patrick Grant of the University of Oxford. Other university partners are University of Birmingham, University College London, University of Sheffield, University of Southampton and University of Warwick. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Tantulum Corporation has teamed up with data scientists from Imperial College London to build “Air.Car”—a OBD-connected device which will produce highly accurate, real-time NO x feedback as you drive. million) collaborative project to deliver real-time NONO x x emissions estimation capability from an OBD connected device.

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JUNE 2, 2019

Other mostly European destinations, such as Geneva; London; San Sebastien, Spain; Copenhagen; Prague; Stockholm; Oslo; and Reykjavik had consistently lower levels of air pollution. Some destinations studied—Beijing, Shanghai, and Milan—are heavily polluted during certain months but have relatively cleaner air at other times.

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MARCH 23, 2015

Clean Air Power has been awarded an additional one-year extension to its 2-year funded research project with Brunel University London, aimed at developing the next generation of advanced dual-fuel combustion systems.

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JULY 29, 2014

million) grant from the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), awarded in 2012. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million Following successful trials on buses in London, Go-Ahead intends to utilize the technology in cities it serves across the UK, initially in London and Oxford. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement Nº 814471. OXIS will again team up with University College London to develop a novel, non-invasive X-Ray quality control process for cells.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The buses of London may be seen as iconic and historic, but they could soon be sent hurtling into a greener, modern era. The Olympic Delivery Authority has granted planning permission for a hydrogen refuelling facility that would be built in east London as part of a milestone in bringing a fleet of five hydrogen fuel cell buses into service.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

million (US$14-million) grant from the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). Also receiving funding were consortia led by Morgan Motor Company; The London Taxi Company; AGM Batteries Ltd.; Paving the way the future generation batteries will be a new £19.4-million Jaguar Land Rover; and Parker Hannifin.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. Patrik Jones, Imperial College London, joint corresponding author. coli bacteria. Pauli Kallio, András Pásztor, Kati Thiel, M.

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APRIL 5, 2021

With grants awarded to companies based across the UK, the studies will be commercially-led and evaluate the viability of developing large-scale manufacturing facilities, advanced manufacturing processes and the product scale-up of essential technologies for a future net-zero vehicle supply chain.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

REALCAR began as a partnership between Jaguar Land Rover, Innovate UK, Novelis, Norton aluminum, Stadco, Brunel University London, Zyomax and Innoval Technology. Innovate UK awarded a grant of £1.3 (US$1.7 million) million to the project in 2016 as part of its Manufacturing and Materials Round One funding competition.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

per day to travel in central London. The charge operates in the same area and at the same time as the existing London Congestion Charge, taking the total daily payment to £21.50. London Mayor, Sadiq Kahn said that the charge has been brought in to tackle the pollution levels in Central London.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Seven innovative projects will share grants from the latest round of funding from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), the joint industry-government program to put the UK at the forefront of low carbon vehicle technology. million (US$21.5

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Launched in January 2019, Uber’s Clean Air Plan aims to tackle air pollution by helping drivers upgrade to an electric vehicle through the introduction of a Clean Air Fee: 15p a mile is added on to all London journeys which will help drivers with the cost of adopting an electric vehicle.

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APRIL 25, 2017

The DRIVEN consortium—led by artificial intelligence company Oxbotica , which is developing next-gen autonomous vehicles—will test a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in an end-to-end journey from London to Oxford. DRIVEN is supported by a £8.6-million

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JULY 26, 2023

He is a cofounder of InterEngineering , a London-based nonprofit dedicated to greater inclusion in engineering. Based in London, it organizes networking events, funds prizes and grants, and arranges visits to interesting engineering projects around the country.

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