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Arrival and Uber to collaborate on EV for ride-hailing industry; based on Small Vehicle Platform

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Uber has committed to becoming a fully electric mobility platform in London by 2025 and by 2030 across North America and Europe. Arrival was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with more than 1,800 global employees located in offices across the United States, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Russia, and Luxembourg.

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Shell chooses Driivz’s EV charging and smart energy management platform for European buildout

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Israel-based Driivz announced that Shell has selected the Driivz EV charging and smart energy management platform to help accelerate the build out of new charging locations in more than 10 European countries, supporting Shell’s ambition to operate more than 500,000 charge points globally by 2025 and 2,500,000 by 2030.

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Electreon and ASPIRE to launch electrified roadway demo in Utah

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Israel-based Electreon, a developer ofin-road wireless electric vehicle charging technology for shared, commercial and passenger vehicles, and ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification), an NSF-funded engineering research center, are launching a joint demonstration project. Earlier post.).

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Foretellix closes $32M Series B round; testing and verification of automated driving systems

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The round was led by MoreTech Ventures, with participation from several strategic investors, including Volvo Group Venture Capital, Nationwide, NI and Japan-Israel High Tech Ventures. Foretellix is now commercially engaged with dozens of the largest names in the automotive industry, including Volvo Group and DENSO Corporation.

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Udelv to use Mobileye DRIVE in more than 35,000 autonomous delivery vehicles

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The readiness of Mobileye Drive, along with its vast map coverage of North America, Europe and Asia, will allow us to ramp up the production and deployment of Udelv Transporters and rapidly offer the service at scale to our expanding list of customers.

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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?

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While China remains, for now, the world’s leading magnesium producer, alternative green technology-driven projects elsewhere are attracting attention as the industry in general looks to reduce its carbon footprint, and even China starts to close inefficient capacities, according to Roskill Information Services.

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GM global sales up 7.6% in 2011 to 9.026M vehicles; China and US largest markets

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of the global vehicle industry. Sales were up in all four reporting regions—North America, South America, Europe and International Operations—as GM sold a total of 9,025,942 vehicles compared with 8,385,484 in 2010. North America. South America. General Motors Co. gain compared with 2010.

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