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JANUARY 21, 2022

Members of the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance presented top vehicle manufacturers, including Volvo, GM, Daimler and Toyota, with a roadmap for developing the types of electric vehicles that companies plan to acquire in the US over the next five years. Alliance members recognize that the future is electric.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Heckmann Corporation, a water solutions company focused on water issues worldwide and, in particular, oil and natural gas exploration and production, is teaming up with Encana Natural Gas Inc., Heckmann Corporation was created to buy and build companies in the water sector.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

The agreement with RSB is EVR’s fourth commercial agreement in India signed during the past eight months. Both the RSB Group and EKA Mobility agreements see EVR developing electric motors for Light Commercial Vehicles using its Trapezoidal Stator RFPM (TS-RFPM) topology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

In a policy update, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) reports that Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) have finalized new proposed fuel economy standards for light- and medium-duty commercial vehicles with gross vehicle weights less than 3.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation is now ramping up production of the new Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid. The assembly of the first commercial light-duty diesel plug-in hybrid has been successfully integrated on the same line as the company’s other models at the Torslanda plant in Gothenburg. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), part of Daimler Trucks, celebrated the global launch of the FUSO eCanter ( earlier post ) in New York City. The FUSO eCanter is the world’s first series-produced all-electric light-duty truck and will be delivered to customers starting this year in the US, Europe and Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

The new electric motor is clean, light, and efficient and can be assembled without the use of rare earths by customer request. The new development is suitable for passenger cars and commercial vehicles as well as construction machines and tractors. Building large electric motors that deliver short-term high performance is easy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Syzygy Plasmonics , LOTTE Chemical and LOTTE Fine Chemical (LOTTE Chemical HQ), and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) announced a joint development agreement to test a photocatalytic reactor for clean hydrogen production. The LOTTE Chemical HQ installation marks the first time the technology will be deployed at a commercial scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation today made a strategic investment of €100 million (US $110 million) in a new partnership with Arrival , a UK-based electric vehicle startup ( earlier post ). With the rapid global growth in online shopping, the volume of light commercial vehicles in urban areas has increased.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

This project will complete key engineering design and demonstration tests to enable cost-competitive, carbon-neutral production of synthetic jet fuel and diesel using nuclear energy from existing light water reactors. 3M Company will develop an isotope recovery process to enable commercial deployment of molten salt reactors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2022

Yamato Transport and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) will begin studying the standardization and commercialization of replaceable and rechargeable cartridge batteries. CJPT intends to advance plans for commercial BEVs powered by cartridge batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Light duty vehicle fleet by type and average fuel efficiency. Exxon Mobil Corporation’s new The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 , released last week, projects that global energy demand in 2040 will be about 30% higher than it was in 2010 as population grows to 9 billion and global GDP doubles. Source: ExxonMobil Outlook.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Ballard and Quantron AG have been developing fuel cell electric commercial vehicle platforms in a partnership since September 2021. QUANTRON QLI FCEV light truck The core of the Canadian-German partnership is the integration of Ballard’s high-performance FCmove fuel cell modules in QUANTRON vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Yesterday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly established increasingly stringent greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles and fuel economy standards under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program, respectively.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), part of the Daimler Trucks family, plans to start the series production of fuel-cell trucks by the late 2020s. At the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show in October, MFTBC unveiled the Vision F-CELL, a light-duty fuel-cell concept truck. The modular high-voltage battery provides from 13.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

According to the group, the newly-developed material is expected to be applied commercially in 2014 in China by some automakers, including Beijing Hyundai and FAW-Volkswagen, a major passenger sedan manufacturer jointly ventured by First Automobile Works Group Corporation of China and Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and Volkswagen Automobile (China) Investment (..)

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MARCH 21, 2013

ALTe Powertrain Technologies (ALTe), developer of a range-extended plug-in electric hybrid vehicle (PHEV) powertrain for light commercial fleet vehicle applications ( earlier post ), will establish a new commercial vehicle manufacturing Joint Venture with the Henan Benma Company (Benma) in the Henan province of China.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Alcoa and China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) have finalized an agreement to establish a joint venture company to produce high-end fabricated aluminum products for the China market. The two partners had signed a Letter of Intent in September 2011. The new joint venture company, Alcoa CPI (China) Aluminum Investment Co.

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JUNE 28, 2012

Located near Alexandria, Louisiana, Sundrop Fuels plans to break ground late this year on its inaugural commercial plant, which will produce up to 50 million gallons of renewable gasoline annually. The Sundrop Fuels installation represents the first commercial production of biofuels using the MTG process. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The planned CO 2 standards will complement the Government’s carbon price scheme and help to reduce carbon emissions from light vehicles. Transport produces around 15% of Australia’s CO 2 emissions; light-duty vehicles contribute 64% of Australia’s transport emissions, and 9–10% of total emissions. per year over the 2008–2020 period.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

and Toyota Motor Corporation have jointly developed a fuel cell power supply vehicle that uses hydrogen to generate electricity. As a leading manufacturer of mobile (portable) generators, Denyo will work with Toyota to start verification tests with the aim of commercializing it.

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JULY 14, 2021

The pilot operation will be conducted using Hyundai H350, a light commercial, four-door van (known as Solati in Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam), equipped with autonomous driving technology, which applies a range of Level 4-comparable core technologies and is developed in-house by the Autonomous Driving Center at Hyundai Motor.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

—Jerome Gregeois, Director Commercial Vehicles Development at Hyundai-Kia and chair of the CaFCP board of directors. —Joe Cappello, CEO of Iwatani Corporation of America and vice chair of CaFCP. At Hyundai-Kia, we know that battery and fuel cell electric technologies are needed to meet the diverse needs of our customers.

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MAY 4, 2021

Ballard Power Systems and Linamar Corporation have entered a strategic alliance for the co-development and sale of fuel cell powertrains and components for class 1 and 2 vehicles, weighing up to 5-tons, initially in North America and Europe. —Randy MacEwen, Ballard President and CEO.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2025

Optical Modulators One fundamental difference between Broadcoms scheme and Nvidias is the optical modulator technology that encodes electronic bits onto beams of light. In the former, light traveling through a waveguide is split into two parallel arms. And so electronic bits can be encoded onto the light.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation will deliver 20 units of the all-electric eCanter truck to the Australia Post fleet. In October, Australia Post will become the first local customer to integrate the electric light-duty truck into its daily operations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Lordstown Motors, an OEM of electric light-duty trucks focused on the commercial fleet market, has closed the sale of its Lordstown facility and signed a contract manufacturing agreement and joint venture agreement for product development with affiliates of Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn). and Irvine, Calif.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Green Automotive Company has (GAC) acquired 21.63% of Viridian Motor Corporation (VMC), a US-based electric truck manufacturer. Viridian Motor Corporation (VMC) is building fully electric, light-duty trucks using its own electric drive train and battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Of the $71 million, Achates Power will receive $5 million for work on an opposed-piston 2-stroke hybrid commercial vehicle system, and Cummins will receive $4 million for its work on an ultra-low emissions heavy-duty 10L natural gas engine. Eaton Corporation. Eaton Corporation. BorgWarner Inc. North Carolina State University.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Ford Motor Company’s commercial vehicle investment in China will expand into the heavy truck business through a major acquisition: Jiangling Motors Corporation (JMC)—in which Ford holds a 30% stake—will buy a 100% stake in Taiyuan Changan Heavy Truck Company. billion Yuan (approximately US$2.7

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Ltd., , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong’s Hybrid Kinetic Motors Corporation (HKMC), are forming a 50:50 joint venture for the production of new energy vehicles. Anhui JAC Automotive Co., and Tianjin Ching Equity Investment Management Co., Initial investment will be not less than 2 billion yuan (US$295 million).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), and Hino Motors, Ltd. The three partners will verify the suitability and practicality of using the EV Trucks in delivery operations, and the results will be used to make improvements for the commercial launch of electric trucks. EV Trucks for the trial. Click to enlarge. Yamato Transport Co.,

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Synergy) to provide FCvelocity-9SSL fuel cell stacks for use in commercial buses in China. DFAC), which is part of Dongfeng Motor Corporation, a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhan. Dongfeng Motor Corporation is the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in China.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The lithium-ion battery system installed on the vehicle was developed by 4R Energy Corporation. Nissan is working to develop and sell commercial electric vehicles (EVs), in addition to passenger EVs, such as the Nissan LEAF. ATLAS F24 Refrigerator Truck by Li-ion Battery”. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 28, 2017

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has started production of the all‑electric light-duty truck Fuso eCanter in Tramagal, Portugal. The Fuso eCanter is produced in line with the conventional Canter light-duty truck at the Tramagal plant. Earlier post.) Fuso is a brand of Daimler Trucks Asia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2017

The strategic alliance between Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH—which houses the MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus, and RIO brands—and US commercial vehicle manufacturer Navistar International Corporation ( earlier post ) has been approved by the authorities responsible. in Navistar paying US$15.76 per share.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2012

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, developer of a range-extended plug-in electric hybrid powertrain for light commercial fleet vehicle applications, has created a Commitment to Action to spur adoption of hybrid electric technology in the worldwide fleet industry as part of the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting.

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