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Chile to nationalize lithium industry

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2023

Chile President Gabriel Boric announced that his government will nationalize the country’s lithium industry, with the objective of increasing wealth for the country, and developing a key industry as a fundamental step to link Chile’s economic development with the change towards a green economy at a global level.

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Chile Industry Industrial Economy

€24M EU project HyInHeat researching use of hydrogen in aluminum and steel industry

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JANUARY 31, 2023

The EU project HyInHeat is researching the use of hydrogen in the aluminum and steel industry. The main objective of HyInHeat is the integration of hydrogen as fuel for high-temperature heating processes in the energy-intensive industries. The EU is contributing €17.7 million in funding to the €24-million project.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Industry Industrial Universal

ARPA-E to award up to $45M to support developing marine CO2 removal industry; SEA CO2

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $45 million in funding to support a new program aimed at facilitating the development of the marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) industry through scalable Measurement, Reporting and Validation (MRV) technologies.

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CO2 Mariner Industry Industrial

The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

Cars That Think

MARCH 3, 2025

Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? Like Bill Joys infamous gray goo , a silo-busting nanotechnology industry never materialized. The quantum regime, however, is already its own thriving industry, perhaps because the science of it is so unique.

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Industry Industrial Albuquerque Jordan

Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Oak Ridge, Argonne collaborate with Wabtec on hydrogen-powered trains to decarbonize rail industry

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The research focuses on zero-carbon hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels as viable alternatives to diesel for the rail industry. The team’s goal is to reduce carbon emissions from the roughly 25,000 locomotives already in use in North America.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Industry Industrial North America

The Auto Industry Does Potentially Have A Sales Crisis Coming With EVs — But It’s Not What You Think

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 10, 2025

Yet, many people from CEOs in the industry to media headline writers to. continued] The post The Auto Industry Does Potentially Have A Sales Crisis Coming With EVs But It’s Not What You Think appeared first on CleanTechnica. EV sales growth had exploded. Then the sales growth slowed down a bit, but EV sales were still growing.

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UK Digital Twin Centre opens in Belfast, ushering in new era of industrial innovation

Innovation News Network

MAY 2, 2025

Discover how the UK Digital Twin Centre is transforming industry through cutting-edge virtual technology and real-world innovation. The post UK Digital Twin Centre opens in Belfast, ushering in new era of industrial innovation appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Industry Industrial

Kia’s low-cost EVs are taking the auto industry by storm, now the EV4 is arriving

Electrek

MAY 5, 2025

Kias new EV3 and EV5 are already climbing the sales charts in several key markets. With more low-cost EVs arriving this year, including the EV4, its first electric sedan (and hatch), this could be just the start to Kias global sales run.

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Predicting How Tariffs Will Affect the Auto Industry

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 11, 2025

It's Friday, and we're podcasting! This week on the TTAC podcast, we tackle tariffs with Robby DeGraff from AutoPacific. There's a lot of moving parts and unpredictability, but we do our best to make sense of it all. As usual, TTAC contributor Matthew Guy and I chat about products we use and NASCAR.

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Game-changing Lectric XP4 next-gen electric bike launched, shocking industry once again

Electrek

MAY 6, 2025

The Lectric XP4 is the newest generation of the ultra-popular e-bike line, and once again brings a shocking level of upgrades at price points never before seen in the industry. To put it simply, Lectric has done it again; theyve absolutely crushed it and set a new high watermark for value in the US folding e-bike market.

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Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear power plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

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APRIL 9, 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Powered Power

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

Joint development of offshore wind farms that will enable production of renewable hydrogen as fuel for power and other industrial customers in the future. This is a unique opportunity to build a hydrogen industry in Norway where hydrogen also can be used as feedstock to domestic industries.

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Norway Germany Hydrogen Powered

Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sandia is now ready to partner with the renewable energy industry to develop the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines. This had the potential to block growth of the wind industry. The Sandia team began developing Twistact at the time as a hedge to protect the growing wind industry from future disruptions.

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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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JANUARY 21, 2023

The feedstock pellets from the pre-treatment plant will then be converted into hydrogen in a second RWE plant which the company is to build at the Chemelot industrial park in Limburg. The CO 2 released during the hydrogen production is captured and can be stored or possibly used as a raw material by industry in the future.

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Waste Hydrogen Grant Netherlands

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. This innovative green ammonia cracker could be a game-changer for scaling up the green hydrogen industry – an important step to drive the energy transition. A Siemens Energy-led consortium has begun work in Newcastle, UK on a new £3.5

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Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland

Honeywell introduces Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

This cost-effective solution can help meet the growing requirements for hydrogen use across various industries by leveraging existing refinery and transportation infrastructure. Existing idle oil refining assets can be revamped to release the hydrogen from the liquid carrier for use in multiple commercial and industrial applications.

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Hydrogen Transportation Gas Oil

Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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Finland Green Coal Hydrogen

ProLogium to build €5.2B gigafactory for solid-state batteries in France

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Specifically, ProLogium’s objective is threefold: To put down roots in Europe; To mass-produce next-generation batteries for EVs; and To support the energy transition of the EU automotive industry, as ICE car sales will be banned by 2035.

France

France Building Taiwan Batteries

H-TEC SYSTEMS modular hydrogen electrolyzer for large-scale green hydrogen projects of 10 MW upwards

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2023

Demand for large-scale hydrogen projects from industry is steadily increasing. In response, H-TEC SYSTEMS, a subsidiary of MAN Energy Solutions, has developed a new Modular Hydrogen Platform (MHP)—a scalable system for the industrial production of green hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Green Maintenance Water

US Electric Vehicle Sales Up 480% vs Q4 2019, Fossil Fuel Vehicle Sales Down 2%

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2025

It’s time for another look at how the US auto industry has changed in recent years, in this report focusing in on the 4th quarter and extending from 2024 back through 2019. Let’s dive in and see how things have changed across the industry first, before narrowing down to the.

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This Chart Might Keep You From Worrying About AI’s Energy Use

Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2025

In the 1950s, for example, rural America electrified, the industrial sector boomed, and homeowners rapidly accumulated nifty domestic appliances such as spinning clothes dryers and deep freezers. The growth continued into the 1960s as homes and businesses readily adopted air conditioners and the industrial sector automated.

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Energy 2000 Grid United States

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Following successful field trial results, Cemvita has created a wholly owned subsidiary for the Gold Hydrogen business, Gold H2 LLC (GH2), and subsequently raised and closed funding into the entity, led by founding investors Chart Industries and 8090 Industries. —Charles Nelson, Chief Business Officer of Cemvita.

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Hydrogen Production Oil Renewable

GlobalData: Hydrogen market growth to surge in 2023 despite slowing global economy

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Hydrogen development, given its application across various industries, is indispensable to attaining energy transition, meeting decarbonization goals, and positioning leading companies as market experts. mtpa active and upcoming capacity combined.

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Hydrogen Economy Global Egypt

Max-Planck-Institut team uses ammonia for direct reduction for more sustainable steel production

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APRIL 2, 2023

In their study, the researchers show that ammonia-based reduction of iron oxide proceeds through an autocatalytic reaction, is kinetically as effective as hydrogen-based direct reduction, yields the same metallization, and can be industrially realized with existing technologies.

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Tariffs & Electric Cars: Bloomberg Says It’s Time To Welcome Chinese Cars To The US

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2025

Tariffs that protect local industries have some benefits, but tariffs that exclude entire nations are ultimately self-defeating. The post Tariffs & Electric Cars: Bloomberg Says It’s Time To Welcome Chinese Cars To The US appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Canada releases critical minerals strategy, backed by $3.8B in federal funding

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

The proposed funding covers a range of industrial activities, from geoscience and exploration to mineral processing, manufacturing and recycling applications, including support for research, development and technological deployment. The Government of Canada on Friday released its Critical Minerals Strategy , backed by up to $3.8 Earlier post.)

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American energy sector set to invest $100B in battery storage by 2030

Electrek

MAY 10, 2025

Members of the US energy industry has committed to investing $100 billion over the next five years to build and buy American-made batteries for large, utility-scale deployments of battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Energy

Energy Batteries Battery Energy Storage

Flawed Diamonds Are a Quantum Sensor’s Best Friend

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

How do you find industries that could benefit from quantum sensors? So industries like space, and oil and gas. What is your first spin-off, EuQlid, contributing to the semiconductor industry? What are some other industries in which quantum sensors could have an impact?

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Environment Industry Industrial Carbon

Slate emerges with customizable EV pickup available for under $20k [Video]

Electrek

APRIL 24, 2025

After about a month of speculation and subtle hints from industry insiders, American EV startup Slate has emerged from stealth to share its flagship model with the world. This simplified all-electric pickup arrives with over 100 accessories, a five-seat SUV configuration kit, and get this crank windows.

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Available Kits Tax SUV

US DOE releases national clean hydrogen strategy and roadmap

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

Deployments of clean hydrogen to decarbonize industry, transportation, and the power grid can enable 10 MMT/year of demand by 2030, ~20 MMT/year of demand by 2040, and ~50 MMT in 2050. Source: DOE. It also complements the massive $9.5-billion

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Cleaning Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit

Fraunhofer leading “MaSSiF” research project on solid-state sulfur-silicon batteries

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APRIL 26, 2023

The “MaSSiF” project involves research institutes and industrial manufacturers of all the necessary key components to investigate the fundamental structure-property relationships and to process and design components and cells. In this way, battery cells with 350 Wh/kg and a service life of more than 300 cycles are to be produced.

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Batteries Battery Li-ion Lithium Ion

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The new Service Station can save costs on hydrogen production, storage and transportation by more than 20% compared to traditional hydrogen refueling stations; it is intended to become a pilot model to lead the development of China's hydrogen energy industry. Sinopec Fuel Oil Sales Co.,

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Hydrogen China Waste Oil

ABB introduces Dynafin propulsion system to increase ship efficiency; mimicking movements of whale tail

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

ABB introduced ABB Dynafin, a new propulsion system concept breaking new ground for efficiency in the marine industry. The shipping industry contributes to almost 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually; if it were a country, it would be the sixth-largest emitter. ABB estimates the first prototype to be available in 2025.

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Mariner Concept Gas-Electric Fuel Alternative

Green Mining, Green Iron, Green Shipping, and Community Support — the Andrew Forest Report

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2025

Andrew Forrest has scoffed at net zero and challenged the mining industry and maritime shipping to go for real zero. To this end, he has purchased battery electric mining equipment we wrote about it here. Now, the big news is that he is expanding his renewable energy resources to.

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Green Purchase Renewable Industry

Lightning eMotors to deliver 126 electric commercial vehicles to Macnab EV Sales

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Macnab has been a leader in the Canadian commercial transportation industry since 1935. The full order of 126 vehicles includes ZEV3 cargo and passenger van configurations and ZEV4 shuttle buses. The Lightning ZEV3 Transit passenger van is available in battery-electric versions offering 140-mile and 200-mile ranges.

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Commercial Sale Vehicles DC

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2023

The study was led by Dr Maria Sand, a senior scientist at CICERO, and her colleagues with collaborators from the UK, France, and the US, and was funded by the Research Council of Norway with contributions from five hydrogen industry partners. The climate effects of hydrogen have been an under-researched topic. Skeie, R.B., Sandstad, M.

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Hydrogen Global Ozone CO2

Moog and Komatsu to demonstrate fully electric wheel loader

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Moog has a history of converting hydraulic systems to electric in industries including aerospace, defense, and industrial machinery for applications including simulators for air, sea, and land vehicles.

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Fully Electric Electrical Electric Connect

Like It or Not, EVs are Going to Stay

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 29, 2025

Day One of the New York International Auto Show (NIAS) Industry Days opened with a forum called Evaluating the Shifting EV Landscape.” The forum was moderated by automotive industry research. ” It gathered many top U.S. automotive executives, analysts, and policy experts to talk about trends in the American EV landscape.

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ZF and Freudenberg partner on fuel cell drives

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

ZF’s cooperation with Freudenberg will develop highly integrated fuel cell e-drive solutions for the commercial vehicle industry. —Wilhelm Rehm, ZF Board Member with responsibility for Commercial Vehicle Solutions, Industrial Technology and Materials Management. We are investing heavily in the mobility of the future.

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Fuel Commercial Kits Hydrogen

Cohort of new stakeholders joins Open Hydrogen Initiative

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Decarbonizing hydrogen supply is critical to initiate uptake in these new sectors, and an industry-standard emissions measurement and verification process is key to providing the market transparency that facilitates new supply agreements. —Paula Gant, Ph.D., President and CEO of GTI Energy.

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Hydrogen Insight Oklahoma Carbon

HYVIA introduces its first electrolyzer in its plant in Flins, France

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2023

This is a major industrial and human challenge, made possible by the strength of our collaboration with Plug and Renault Group. It will initially supply the plant in order to test the fuel cells of the Renault Master H2-TECH vehicles marketed by HYVIA as well as the hydrogen refueling stations.

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France Portugal Hydrogen Netherlands

Kawasaki’s liquefied hydrogen carrier departs to pick up first cargo

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Suiso Frontier , the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, has left Japan to pick up its first hydrogen cargo in Australia. A return to Japan is expected around late February.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Japan Australia Gas-Electric

T&E: two-thirds of European battery production at risk as companies weigh investing in US instead

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

A green industrial policy focused on batteries with EU-wide support for scaling up production is urgently needed to react to US subsidies and China’s years of dominance. The EU can’t compete unless it has a robust industrial policy which is focused on scaling up production and rewards environmentally sustainable projects.

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Companies Batteries Battery Production

Chile to nationalize lithium industry

€24M EU project HyInHeat researching use of hydrogen in aluminum and steel industry

ARPA-E to award up to $45M to support developing marine CO2 removal industry; SEA CO2

The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

Oak Ridge, Argonne collaborate with Wabtec on hydrogen-powered trains to decarbonize rail industry

The Auto Industry Does Potentially Have A Sales Crisis Coming With EVs — But It’s Not What You Think

UK Digital Twin Centre opens in Belfast, ushering in new era of industrial innovation

Kia’s low-cost EVs are taking the auto industry by storm, now the EV4 is arriving

Predicting How Tariffs Will Affect the Auto Industry

Game-changing Lectric XP4 next-gen electric bike launched, shocking industry once again

Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear power plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

Honeywell introduces Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier

Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

ProLogium to build €5.2B gigafactory for solid-state batteries in France

H-TEC SYSTEMS modular hydrogen electrolyzer for large-scale green hydrogen projects of 10 MW upwards

US Electric Vehicle Sales Up 480% vs Q4 2019, Fossil Fuel Vehicle Sales Down 2%

This Chart Might Keep You From Worrying About AI’s Energy Use

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

GlobalData: Hydrogen market growth to surge in 2023 despite slowing global economy

Max-Planck-Institut team uses ammonia for direct reduction for more sustainable steel production

Tariffs & Electric Cars: Bloomberg Says It’s Time To Welcome Chinese Cars To The US

Canada releases critical minerals strategy, backed by $3.8B in federal funding

American energy sector set to invest $100B in battery storage by 2030

Flawed Diamonds Are a Quantum Sensor’s Best Friend

Slate emerges with customizable EV pickup available for under $20k [Video]

US DOE releases national clean hydrogen strategy and roadmap

Fraunhofer leading “MaSSiF” research project on solid-state sulfur-silicon batteries

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

ABB introduces Dynafin propulsion system to increase ship efficiency; mimicking movements of whale tail

Green Mining, Green Iron, Green Shipping, and Community Support — the Andrew Forest Report

Lightning eMotors to deliver 126 electric commercial vehicles to Macnab EV Sales

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

Moog and Komatsu to demonstrate fully electric wheel loader

Like It or Not, EVs are Going to Stay

ZF and Freudenberg partner on fuel cell drives

Cohort of new stakeholders joins Open Hydrogen Initiative

HYVIA introduces its first electrolyzer in its plant in Flins, France

Kawasaki’s liquefied hydrogen carrier departs to pick up first cargo

T&E: two-thirds of European battery production at risk as companies weigh investing in US instead

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