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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Iberdrola Australia and Australia-based hydrogen developer ABEL Energy will build a green hydrogen and green methanol production plant at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania (Australia). First production is scheduled for 2025. Overall Bell Bay facility flow scheme including key processing units, inputs and products.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

The investment will help boost production to meet the surging demand for advanced semiconductors, powering a new generation of innovative products from Intel and serving the needs of foundry customers as part of the company’s IDM 2.0 Credit: Intel Corporation).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Daimler plans a fundamental change in its structure, splitting into two independent pure-play companies: Mercedes-Benz Cars & Vans, and Daimler Truck, which will be a spin-off the current Truck and Bus business. It represents the start of a profound reshaping of the company. This is a historic moment for Daimler.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

MAN Truck & Bus is accelerating the production of heavy-duty e-trucks in Munich to as early as the beginning of 2024 with prompt delivery of an initial 200 units. MAN began building up its own expertise in the assembly of battery packs as early as spring 2021. This is almost a year earlier than originally planned.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

which has developed its own integrated subcritical-water organic-waste power-generation system (ISOP) system, which decomposes organic substances using subcritical-water-treating technology and ultimately produces green energy products such as biofuels. The products can be reused as green energy products such as bio-coal, biogas (e.g.,

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JULY 7, 2022

CARIAD, the Volkswagen Group’s software company, has selected BlackBerry QNX technology as one component of its software platform VW.OS. Announced as part of Volkswagen Group’s NEW AUTO strategy, CARIAD is developing a unified software platform that consists of VW.OS, the Volkswagen Cloud VW.AC

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MAY 1, 2021

The BMW Group is launching production of battery components at its plants in Leipzig and Regensburg and expanding its e-drive production network. It has been less than a year since the decision was made to expand production capacity for e-drives in Germany. High-voltage batteries will also be produced in Regensburg from 2022.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car company, confirmed plans to put the Polestar electric roadster concept into production. The production car is expected to launch in 2026 as the Polestar 6 electric performance roadster. Interested customers in all active Polestar markets are now able to reserve a build slot online.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

The Cummins electrolyzer system is installed at the Air Liquide hydrogen production facility in Bécancour, Québec. The HyLYZER PEM electrolyzer technology is the result of more than 20 years of development by Hydrogenics, a Canadian company that was acquired by Cummins in September of 2019, a company which Air Liquide retains a 19% stake.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Cummins and GILLIG announced the production of the 100 th GILLIG battery-electric bus built since the two companies began partnering on the heavy-duty transit vehicle. The companies have collaborated since 2019 to bring reliable zero-emissions electric buses to communities across the country. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Emerson will deliver advanced automation technologies, software and products to enable BayoTech to build hundreds of hydrogen units. BayoTech’s patented technology requires less feedstock, which means fewer carbon emissions and less cost to produce hydrogen than traditional reformers, the company says.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Deepsea mining company TMC The Metals Company ( earlier post ) announced a strategic partnership with Low Carbon Royalties Inc. to finance the development and production of low-carbon fuels and energy transition metals. TMC and LCR have agreed to a purchase and sale agreementwhereby LCR has acquired a 2.0%

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AUGUST 18, 2021

a waste-to-fuels company, closed a $20-million strategic investment from Chevron USA, ITOCHU, Hyzon Motors and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR plans to build modular waste-to-green hydrogen production units and renewable synthetic fuel facilities initially in California and then worldwide. Raven SR Inc., Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

ABIC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), have entered into a definitive business combination agreement under which ABIC will combine with LiveWire, Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle division ( earlier post ), to create a new publicly traded company. Harley-Davidson and AEA-Bridges Impact Corp. billion at closing.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

INEOS Automotive has acquired the manufacturing facility at Hambach from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4x4 there in late 2021. We are in the midst of a major transformation of our company and aim to successfully shape it for the future.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Toyota Motor will join seven other leading Japanese companies—Sony Group, NEC, Toyota supplier Denso, NTT, chipmaker Kioxia Holdings, SoftBank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Grou—in working with the Japanese government in a new next-generation semiconductor venture named Rapidus. The companies are investing a combined ¥7.3

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

After several years of development, Bosch is now starting volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors to supply automotive manufacturers worldwide. In the future, an increasing number of production vehicles will feature these chips. Picture: Bosch. The future for silicon carbide semiconductors is bright.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Aeva , a company building next-generation sensing for autonomous vehicles ( earlier post ), and ZF are partnering to bring the first Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR to market for autonomous driving applications. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. The business segment Chemicals & Materials will instead be the growth engine of the company. The company can build on a strong position.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ford has produced its 150,000 th Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle since starting production nearly two years ago, a significant milestone as the company scales EV production to a rate of 600,000 annually by late 2023 and more than 2 million annually by 2026.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

A local 5G campus network is now available at its main plant in Wolfsburg that initially covers the main production development center and the pilot hall. The pilot project will test whether the 5G technology meets the demanding requirements of vehicle production with a view to developing this for industrial series production in the future.

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APRIL 22, 2025

While some of the brands more popular models are built south of the border, GM officials say they have no plans to change or relocate those production lines as the trade war heats up. Adrian Enciso, GMs director of Mexico operations, said, At this time, GM has no plans to halt or relocate production of any of our EV models made in Mexico.

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MARCH 5, 2025

The project will see a one million square-foot building make way for Tesla to build Megapack battery storage units, according to Covering Katy News , which first reported on the company’s intention to build a plant for its energy product.

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JULY 28, 2022

In its Q2 letter to shareholders, solid-state battery company QuantumScape reported successfully building and testing ts first prototype 24-layer cells. The 24-layer cells show similar early capacity retention behavior to the company’s earlier single-, four-, 10- and 16-layer cells. —Letter to shareholders.

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Electrek

MARCH 27, 2025

Hyundais first three-row electric SUV, the IONIQ 9, has officially entered production at its massive new EV plant in Georgia. The company held the grand opening on Wednesday at its massive new Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, where it will build upcoming Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis EV and hybrid vehicles.

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MARCH 7, 2021

Topsoe is currently a global leader in hydrogen technology, catalysts, and services that enable efficient production of hydrogen. Offerings include technologies for traditional natural-gas-based hydrogen production with the option of carbon capture, also known as blue hydrogen, as well as green hydrogen with the SOEC electrolyzer technology.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ford Motor Company, LG Energy Solution and Koç Holding signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a new joint venture subject to final agreement by all the parties to create one of Europe’s largest commercial electric vehicle battery cell facilities near Ankara, Turkey. Earlier post.)

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JULY 27, 2023

announced the formation of Beaver Lake Renewable Energy, LLC (BLRE), which will construct a new green methanol production facility in Central Louisiana. SunGas Renewables Inc. The BLRE facility is expected to begin construction in late 2024 with commercial operations commencing in 2027.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Cepsa—the Spain-based multinational oil and gas company—will invest more than €3 billion to establish the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, creating the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe in southern Spain. The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen.

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MAY 19, 2023

BBA) joint venture, Milan Nedeljković, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Production, announced local production of the NEUE KLASSE in China. The blue highlighted structures are the new project buildings. To mark the 20 th anniversary of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Dürr constructed the entire paint shop for Ford Motor Company, which included low and high viscosity material supply systems, robotic paint and sealer application equipment, and other process automation technology. Filter trolleys with easy-to-replace disposable cardboard filters permit quick replacement—even during production.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Canada-based Aurora Hydrogen, a company developing emission-free hydrogen production technology, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Energy Innovation Capital. There is an accompanying need to develop new low-cost and low-carbon technologies for hydrogen production. T in 2025, according to the Hydrogen Council.

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MARCH 5, 2021

billion (assuming no redemptions) for the combined company, which will be renamed “TMC the metals company Inc.” and operate as The Metals Company upon closing. We looked at over 100 companies, many of them in the EV and renewable energy space. DeepGreen Metals Inc., DeepGreen stands above the rest. Transaction overview.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park—creating 5,000 jobs.

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JANUARY 21, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $918 million in four US manufacturing sites, including $854 million to prepare these facilities to produce the company’s sixth-generation Small Block V-8 engine and an additional $64 million in Rochester, New York and Defiance, Ohio for castings and components to support EV production.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Polestar developed Polestar 2, it developed a lifecycle assessment methodology with Volvo, which showed us that we have to stop talking about tailpipe emissions and stop investing in legacy technology, and instead start focusing on production-related emissions and environmental and social impacts.

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APRIL 12, 2025

Tesla celebrated a major production milestone at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas this week, just as the company continues to ramp up production of its refreshed Model Y. The Model Y also makes up the vast majority of production output at the facility.

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