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Impact Clean Power to build gigafactory in Poland

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Poland-based Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. ICPT ), a manufacturer of battery systems for transportation, robotics and stationary energy storage in Europe, has begun construction of GigafactoryX. Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. Battery systems will be based on lithium-ion cells using LTO, LFP and NMC chemistries.

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17 Solaris e-buses to join public transport fleet in Grudzi?dz, Poland; 25% of fleet electric

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dz, Poland signed a contract for the delivery of 17 Solaris electric buses. Their energy storage facilities are adapted to low-power charging using a plug-in connector as well as fast Opportunity Charging. Solaris is now one of the biggest manufacturers in Europe of zero-emission public transport vehicles.

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Umicore inaugurates CAM plant in Poland; complete battery materials value chain in Europe

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Umicore last week inaugurated its carbon-neutral production facility for cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles in Nysa, Poland. The Nysa plant is fully powered by renewable electricity from a nearby onshore wind farm, enabling Umicore’s carbon-neutral growth ambitions.

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Impact Clean Power Technology unveils visualization of GigafactoryX; 4 GWh/year by 2027

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Poland-based battery systems maker Impact Clean Power Technology unveiled a visualization of GigafactoryX—a large-scale battery factory for electric vehicles and energy storage which will be launched in the city of Pruszków, near Warsaw. The Li-ion battery systems to be manufactured will include LTO, LFP and NMC technologies.

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Toyota starts production of 5th-generation hybrid powertrain in Europe for new Corolla

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The latest Toyota hybrid electric low-emission powertrains will be made at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Poland (TMMP) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK (TMUK) for the new Corollas manufactured at TMUK and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT). The total power of hybrid drive system with the 1.8

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Volvo Cars to open new software Tech Hub in Krakow, Poland

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The Volvo car of the future will be fully electric, increasingly sold online, powered by core computers running in-house developed software and updated via regular over-the-air software updates. Volvo Cars’s forthcoming fully electric cars will all be software-defined.

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Poland NCBJ report concludes small modular reactors unlikely to play key role as basic electricity source in Poland

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A new report published by Poland’s National Center for Nuclear Research (Narodowe Centrum Bada? drowych, NCBJ) concludes that while small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plants (NPPs) might become important for Polish power industry, it is very unlikely that they will ever play a key role as basic electricity source in Poland.

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