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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tesla's Influence on Charging Standards Tesla's NACS, known for its efficiency, is gaining traction among various automakers, suggesting a move towards an industry-wide standard. This development aligns with standardization efforts by SAE International.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) has appointed Dr. Jaiwon Shin as Executive Vice President and Head of its newly established Urban Air Mobility Division. An internationally renowned aeronautics engineer, Dr. Shin will lead the company into a new era of developing smart mobility products within the aviation industry.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Earlier post.) Why not combine the two? We’re working on that.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

BP will establish a $100-million international research center, the BP International center for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM) to lead research to advancethe fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of energy and industrial applications. —Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. —Bob Dudley.

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MAY 9, 2023

The seven projects, each involving a group of companies working in partnership on green transport technology, will each benefit from industry support, together with a government grant. million from the automotive industry. million awarded by government, matched by industry to a total £12.6 CAVENDISH – BorgWarner.

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DECEMBER 8, 2018

As British Airways looks towards its Centenary next year, the airline, in collaboration with Cranfield University, has challenged academics from across the UK to develop a sustainable alternative fuel which could power a commercial aircraft on a long-haul flight, carrying up to 300 customers with zero net emissions.

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MAY 16, 2022

Using new analytical methods, the research group “CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies” led by Michael Bau, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University in Bremen has studied the distribution of germanium and gallium in iron-manganese crusts from the deep sea. Source: Jacobs University). Resources.

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APRIL 21, 2023

The BMW Group is heading up a new project that explores the circular economy in automotive manufacturing. The company is working with representatives from the recycling industry, commodity processors and academia to work on ways of improving the quality of secondary raw materials obtained from recycling end-of-life vehicles.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. VWGoA) has officially joined the LIFT (Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow) institute as a Silver Member to advance the group’s research into lightweight metals, therefore reducing the weight of future vehicles. Hagen Seifert, Head of Materials, Audi AG.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

International oil companies (IOCs) are likely to face a Black Swan scenario, which could end up being a boon for state-owned oil companies (NOCs). The group was founded a little over a year ago but has already forced oil majors’ boardrooms to take radical decisions.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

While advanced composites are used in selective industries such as aircraft, satellites and cars, these materials remain expensive, require large amounts of energy to manufacture and are difficult to recycle. —Matthias Erb, Executive Vice President, Engineering & Planning, Volkswagen Group of America. Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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APRIL 5, 2023

The collaboration between Volkswagen Group of America and Redwood began last year with a strategic recycling deal for all Volkswagen and Audi electric vehicle battery packs and a shared vision to create a circular EV economy. Additional dealerships will be added throughout the year.

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JULY 12, 2019

Researchers at George Washington University led by Prof. Previously, the Licht Group achieved a high yield growth of carbon nanotubes (CNT) by CO 2 electrolysis in molten carbonate through transition metal nucleation points on the electrolysis cathode. A paper on their work is published in the journal Advanced Sustainable Systems.

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APRIL 8, 2023

A spinout from the University of Birmingham (UK)— About:Energy —has launched its battery design software platform: The Voltt. The Voltt will shorten R&D timelines, improve battery performance, and reduce development risk for battery cells and systems in automotive, aerospace and niche industries.

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MARCH 4, 2023

Scout Motors, the recently formed independent company backed by Volkswagen Group ( earlier post , is establishing its first manufacturing plant near Columbia, South Carolina, where it will build electric next-generation trucks and rugged SUVs harkening back to the iconic Scout vehicles produced from 1960 to 1980. The state is No.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Volkswagen Group research directors, Dr.-Ing. James Plummer, Dean of the School of Engineering, will inaugurate the new Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL) on the Stanford University campus at a dedication ceremony this coming Saturday. Franz-Josef Paefgen and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leohold, together with Stanford’s Prof.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

The World Environment Center ( WEC ) will award its 30 th Annual Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development to the Volkswagen Group. —Volkswagen Group Head of Sustainability Gerhard Prätorius.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. awarded him its prestigious Ho-Am Prize in 1993 for “building a solid foundation for Korea’s semiconductor industry.”

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APRIL 28, 2022

Purdue University and Duke Energy plan to explore the feasibility of using advanced nuclear energy to meet the campus community’s long-term energy needs. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, SMRs are among the most promising emerging technologies in nuclear power. Edwardson Dean of Purdue’s College of Engineering.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Having universal standards for data management for each segment of the battery community is required for data creation to unlock the power of AI algorithms designed to identify everything from new candidate electrode materials to improved battery pack construction to cell lifetimes. —Argonne computational scientist Logan Ward.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

H2Boat is part of Bluenergy Revolution, a company spun out of the University of Genoa (Italy) and focused on the research and development of fuel cell, electrolyzer and metal hydride systems, with the aim to develop hydrogen technology solutions for mobile and stationary applications. Nuvera is a subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Group, Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

However, because efficiency is sensitive to reaction conditions and experimental setup, it is difficult to compare the results obtained by different research groups or provide a reliable guide for large-scale implementation. Kazunari Domen from The University of Tokyo, Prof. Lianzhou Wang from The University of Queensland, Prof.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

With previous professional experience as CEO of Asian Operations for Chrysler Group and the CEO of General Motors China Group, Murtaugh provides keen insight into Pinnacle’s planned expansion in 2014, focused heavily on Asian markets. —Ron Hoge, Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Engines.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Furthermore, in order to secure leadership in the future mobility industry, it has decided to focus on future businesses, such as autonomous driving, hydrogen, robotics and advanced air mobility (AAM). In addition, the company is expanding external collaborations with specialized companies, startups and universities. trillion (US$27.8

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

At the 2 nd International Conference Automotive 48 V Power Supply Systems , held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a major sponsor of the event, together with leading car makers and Tier 1 suppliers, argued the need for an internationally agreed 48V electrical standard. Click to enlarge. The conference.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

This novel pathway will provide one more option to address the global need to produce and make SAF available globally and help the aviation industry decarbonize. The Alcohol to Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene pathway (ATJ-SPK) has been certified in 2016 as meeting international standards for jet fuel.

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MARCH 19, 2019

The strategy is to partner with and leverage current industry and state agency plans for truck platooning operations. Key Team Members/Partners: Center for Automotive Research, Pennsylvania State University, SAE International, Saia LTL Freight, Volvo Group, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

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JULY 12, 2021

Enedym, a switched reluctance motor (SRM) spinout from McMaster University, closed a $15-million financing round from an international group of strategic investors within the US, Canada, Europe, and India, including P&A Paletta Giving Inc., TRIO Capital Group Inc., Napino Group, KWG Capital Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. Dr. Martin Ebner received his PhD in Material Science at the ETH University Zurich. Ulrich Eichhorn, Head of Group Research and Development for Volkswagen AG. Dr. William C.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Volkswagen Group is proactively making €20 million (US$21.75 —Matthias Müller, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Group. We are fully aware of the large transformation that lays ahead Volkswagen Group. Dr. Gesche Joost – Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed a new method to improve hydrogen absorption in metal hydrides. Several internal heat exchangers have been designed for use with metal hydride hydrogen storage. —Puchanee Larpruenrudee. Larpruenrudee, P.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For his contribution to this important industry invention and a dizzying array of others over the following two decades, Intel Fellow Jack Kavalieros has been named Intel's 2021 Inventor of the Year. Chau hired Kavalieros as a summer intern in 1994 when he was pursuing his Ph.D. Kavalieros's current U.S. patent tally stands at 437.

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MARCH 17, 2023

The technology has already been proven at the laboratory scale under a research program in partnership with the University of Plymouth and results in a 35% cost-saving and 38% reduction in emissions compared to the mining of virgin material.

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MAY 27, 2016

A public-private team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a new international standard that can “map” the critically important environmental aspects of manufacturing processes, leading to significant improvements in sustainability while keeping a product’s life cycle low cost and efficient.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Carbon specialist SGL Group is a development partner in the European joint development project INSPIRE (Integration of Novel Stack Components for Performance, Improved DuRability and LowEr Cost), which has been funded with a €7-million (US$7.4-million) Earlier post.). Earlier post.). W/cm 2 at 0.6

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JUNE 21, 2021

Porsche is investing a high double-digit-million amount in its new joint venture company Cellforce Group GmbH. The new chemistry reduces the battery’s internal resistance, allowing it to absorb more energy during energy recuperation and at the same time offering improved performance for fast charging.

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