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Israel-based Urban Aeronautics Ltd. In August 2020, the two companies signed an MOU to develop, produce, and market the CityHawk aircraft for EMS applications. reached an agreement to provide four CityHawk VTOL aircraft to Hatzolah Air for emergency medical service (EMS) applications.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company will establish a Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICs) to accelerate its innovation efforts, with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). It also will help define the future business direction for the company. Smart Mobility Solution Provider.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

an Israel-based technology start-up focused on developing battery technology for electric vehicles, signed a 2-year, approx. The customer is a global aerospace company. This marks the first substantial contract based on the company’s high-energy High5ive battery cell technology. ETV Motors Ltd., Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 10, 2023

The momentum continued in 2023, as the company reached a cumulative sales volume of 1.5 As of July 2023, BYD’s global new energy vehicle sales have soared beyond 4.8 As of July 2023, BYD’s global new energy vehicle sales have soared beyond 4.8 In 2022, BYD’s new energy vehicles saw total sales surpass 1.86

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Siemens is investing US$15 million in Arava Power Company, the Israeli market leader in developing photovoltaic power plants. The investment gives Siemens a 40% stake in the company. MW at Kibbutz Ketura, in the southern desert of Israel. The company, with some 20 employees, is a subsidiary of Global Sun Power Ltd.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Polestar, the Swedish premium electric car company founded by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding, delivered on its global sales target of 29,000 vehicles in 2021, representing year-on-year growth exceeding 185%. Polestar increased its global presence from 10 to 19 markets in 2021, with growth in Europe and Asia Pacific.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), through the Israel Fuel Choices Initiative (IFCI), signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Iveco (a Brand of CNH Industrial) and Magneti Marelli (FCA Group) for co-operation in the development of natural-gas-based automotive technologies.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Energy Technology Ventures—a joint venture among GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips—is making its first non-US and first water-related investment by providing capital to Emefcy Ltd, an Israeli company that uses naturally occurring bacteria in an electrogenic bioreactor (microbial fuel cell, MFC) to treat wastewater. Source: Emefcy.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Israel-based Foresight Autonomous Holdings, a developer of automotive vision systems, has signed a paid proof-of-concept (POC) project with the Chinese subsidiary of one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial equipment, heavy machinery, construction and mining equipment.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

Israel-based Arbe is launching Phoenix, its automotive 4D imaging radar beta product. Phoenix provides an image 100 times more detailed than other top industry radars, according to the company, offering superior separation of stationary and moving objects in real time—an industry first.

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Gogoro, widely considered to be the global leader in battery swapping for light electric vehicles, announced today that it is officially launching operations in Israel. The move marks a major westward expansion by the electric scooter and battery swapping company, which has until now largely focused on dominating the Eastern markets.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Navigant Research forecasts that the global EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment, i.e., charger) market will grow from $713 million in 2013 to $3.8 Navigant Research estimates there are 48,705 publicly accessible charging stations installed globally. Total installed public EVSE stations by technology and region, world markets: 2012.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

As a global leader in transportation energy services, Chevron has recognized this. Vehicle electrification will be one of the defining economic trends of the next decade. Widespread EV adoption depends in part on technologies that enable ubiquitous fast charging and that mitigate drivers’ range anxiety. Resources. Firouzi, R. Motallebi, C.W.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Addionics, a chemistry-agnostic battery technology company, raised $27 million in a Series A funding round to scale up its efforts to redesign battery architecture with the company’s Smart 3D Electrodes, which improve the cost and performance of batteries with any chemistry—existing or emerging. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2015

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Cella Energy have been awarded industrial research and development funding by Space Florida, the State of Florida’s aerospace and spaceport development authority, and MATIMOP, Israel’s Industrial Center for Research and Development. When heated above 100°C, hydrogen is released within minutes.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Daimler announced a trial and development partnership with Israeli cleantech company UBQ Materials to explore the use of UBQ’s climate-positive material in the production of automobile parts. UBQ operates a test plant in southern Israel which already supplies UBQ to the plastic industry with a capacity of 5,000 tons per year.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

million investment round led by Vodafone Ventures, the global venture capital arm of Vodafone Group, together with top-tier Israeli VC firm Carmel Ventures. exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) technology, recently announced a $9.2-million —Ziv Gottesfeld, CEO of CellEra.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Israel-based ParaZero Technologies Ltd. , an aerospace company focused on drone safety systems for commercial drones and urban air mobility aircraft, has received a second order for its custom safety system for drones by one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Israel-based Autotalks, a developer in V2X (Vehicle to Everything) communication chipsets ( earlier post ), has completed its Series D round with about $40 million in investments, an oversubscription of $10 million. Additionally, current Autotalks’ investors increased their investment in the company.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Better Place, the global provider of EV networks and services, has signed an agreement with an HSBC-led investor consortium for new equity financing of $350 million. The announcement comes almost two years after Better Place announced its first car partnership and its first country deployment in Israel. —Kevin Adeson.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

BASF, a leading battery materials producer, has entered into a long-term collaboration agreement with Tenova Advanced Technologies (TAT) of Yokneam, Israel, for its battery recycling prototype plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. By collaborating with Tenova we can assess new approaches in further optimizing the recycling process.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Israel-based StoreDot, a developer of extreme fast charging battery technology for electric vehicles, officially opened its first US research facility in Irvine, California. The US team is headed by StoreDot’s global Chief Science Officer Dr David Lee.

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MAY 23, 2018

BP Ventures has invested $20 million in Israel-based ultra-fast charging battery developer StoreDot. BP currently has more than 70 charge points on its retail sites globally. Earlier post.) StoreDot has developed a lithium ion-based battery technology which enables ultra-fast charging for the mobile and industrial markets.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Israel-based EVR Motors has signed an agreement with RSB Group, one of India’s Tier-1 automotive suppliers. EVR India will manufacture electric motor coils, a patented key component of EVR’s electric motor topology, for the company’s partners in India and globally.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

As of today, Yandex’s autonomous vehicle fleet has 130 cars, which have driven over four million autonomous miles on public roads in various weather and road conditions in three countries: Russia, Israel and the United States. Recently, Yandex launched Yandex.Rover commercial operations in the Russian tech hub of Skolkovo.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Israel-based RFISee , a developer of affordable imaging radars for the automotive industry, is unveiling the first Phased Array 4D imaging radar on a chip. Prototypes of RFISee’s radar are under evaluation by top automotive OEMs and Tier-1s, the company said. According to Yole Research, the global automotive radar market will reach $8.6

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JANUARY 27, 2011

and ConocoPhillips have formed a joint venture— Energy Technology Ventures —and have committed $300 million in capital to it to fund approximately 30 venture- and growth-stage companies over the next four years. The company produces an electrode material for advanced Li-Ion batteries under the CPreme brand.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Israel-based ETV Motors Ltd, a developer of electric vehicle technology including batteries and a microturbine-based range extender ( earlier post ), has changed its name to ETV Energy Ltd to emphasize its new sole focus on energy and battery cell technology. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.]. Earlier post.].

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MAY 20, 2010

Alstom, a global leader in equipment and services for power generation, is entering the solar market with an investment of up to $55 million in BrightSource Energy Inc., with an equity stake that positions Alstom as one of the main shareholders in the company. Alstom is a world leader in power generation.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in 2013 will continue to outpace the first years of hybrid vehicle sales as more than 210,000 PEVs will be sold globally and more than three dozen PEV models will debut, according to a year-end free whitepaper published by Pike Research, that makes 10 specific predictions about electric vehicles in 2013.

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JULY 13, 2020

Mobileye, an Intel Company, and WILLER, one of the largest transportation operators in Japan, Taiwan and the Southeast Asian region, have formed a strategic collaboration to launch an autonomous robotaxi service in Japan and markets across Southeast Asia, including Taiwan. WILLER also partners with 150 local transportation providers in Japan.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Last month, a team of five TAU and 11 MIT graduate students visited Kiryat Gat, a mid-sized town in the south of Israel. Home to branches of Hewlett-Packard Company and Intel, Kiryat Gat was chosen as a laboratory for re-designing outmoded planned civic spaces.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Honda Innovations is expanding its global open innovation program for early-stage innovators to Detroit, Japan, China, and Europe. Honda Innovations will guide other Honda operations as they establish startup liaisons globally, providing protocols and best practices to identify and engage with startups and entrepreneurs.

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MAY 3, 2022

Israel-based UBQ Materials, a developer of advanced materials made from unsorted household waste, is partnering with Teknor Apex Company, one of the largest custom thermoplastics compounders globally, to include UBQ in its latest line of sustainable thermoplastic elastomers (TPE).

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JULY 1, 2023

General Motors has acquired substantially all the assets of Israel-based battery software startup ALGOLiON Ltd. ALGOLiON employees, including the company’s founders, will remain based in Israel and join more than 850 employees at the GM Technical Center in Herzliya, Israel. for an undisclosed sum.

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MAY 3, 2023

Hyundai Motor Company premiered its new XCIENT Fuel Cell tractor, the commercialized class 8 6x4 fuel cell electric model, for the North American commercial vehicle (CV) market at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo. Hyundai is uniquely positioned to cover all aspects and deliver a seamless solution across the value chain.

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JANUARY 19, 2013

—a partnership between Chery Automobile, China’s largest independent car manufacturer, and Israel Corporation—is bringing its Cross Hybrid Concept to the Geneva Motor Show in March. In addition, GAC Group has joint ventures with global automakers such as Toyota, Honda, Fiat-Chrysler, Mitsubishi and Hino for vehicle production.

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