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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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DECEMBER 22, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE), Israel’s Ministry of Energy (MoE) along with the Israel Innovation Authority have selected seven clean energy projects to receive $6.4 million under the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy program. Lod, Israel) and Blink Charging Co. Elbit Systems Ltd.

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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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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Israel-based automotive cybersecurity and data management company Upstream Security recently closed a Series C round which includes BMW i Ventures as a new investor. The pilot project was successfully completed by the BMW Technology Office in Israel.

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2009

Seambiotic , a developer and grower of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries using flue gas from electric power plants, has signed a license agreement and a joint venture agreement with Yantai Hairong Electricity Technology Ltd. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & Trading Ltd.,

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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 10, 2023

The momentum continued in 2023, as the company reached a cumulative sales volume of 1.5 Meanwhile, BYD’s new energy vehicles have now made a mark in over 54 countries, with the BYD ATTO 3, one of its standout models, leading NEV sales in Thailand, Israel, and Singapore for several months.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

This has allowed Natron to build the first battery in which chemistry does not limit the lifetime of the system, opening up new opportunities for energy storage to support EV charging, renewables such as solar and wind, and industrial applications. Resources. Firouzi, R. Motallebi, C.W. Valencia, H.S. Fujimoto, L.A. Yang, and C.D.

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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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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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APRIL 26, 2010

Better Place launched a 90-day switchable-battery electric taxi in Tokyo in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 2, 2012

Israel-based Evogene Ltd. Included in the activities that are being transferred from the parent company to Evofuel is the development and commercialization of castor bean varieties for Brazil as well as the biofuel research and development activities located in Israel. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 20, 2011

Israel Corp. a US subsidiary of Israel Corporation’s renewable energy unit IC Green Energy Ltd., The final product is 93 octane gasoline, with the energy capabilities and characteristics of regular gasoline for vehicles and industry. unit reports biomass fuel breakthrough Globes. Primus Green Energy Ltd.,

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APRIL 30, 2012

Israel-based Galten Biodiesel has signed a NIS 225-million (US$60-million) contract to supply 60,000 of Jatropha oil to Finland-based Neste Oil, the producer of NExBTL renewable fuels, beginning in 2014. Galten operates its first Jatropha plantation in Ghana. Forecasts see this year's European biodiesel market worth $40 billion.

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APRIL 3, 2020

Ilika launched its cm-scale Stereax technology for industrial wireless sensors in 2016 and followed up with mm-scale micro-batteries for miniature medical devices in 2019. The company has secured commercial partnerships with a portfolio of blue-chip companies including Asahi Kasei, Shell, Applied Materials, Toyota and Murata Manufacturing.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the aim of showing the world that a hypothetical, sustainable car of the future can be a reality today.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Israel-based Ampal-American Israel Corporation signed an option exercise agreement with Merhav (M.N.F) The Project encompasses approximately 10,000 hectares of land, and includes both agricultural and industrial sectors.

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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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MAY 23, 2018

BP Ventures has invested $20 million in Israel-based ultra-fast charging battery developer StoreDot. StoreDot has developed a lithium ion-based battery technology which enables ultra-fast charging for the mobile and industrial markets. Earlier post.)

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MAY 17, 2020

ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Israel-based VisIC Technologies Ltd., The partnership will see the two companies deepen their development efforts, based on VisIC D 3 GaN (Direct Drive Depletion-mode GaN) semiconductor technology. It also simplifies the system solution and enables high-efficiency and affordable power train solutions.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

The announcement comes almost two years after Better Place announced its first car partnership and its first country deployment in Israel. Currently, Agassi said, the first full-fledged battery switch station is built and in operation and testing in a hanger in Israel. —Kevin Adeson.

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JUNE 7, 2012

An Israeli-Australian venture will use solar technology developed at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of brown coal. The venture has been recently launched in Israel by NewCO2Fuels Ltd., a subsidiary of the Australian company Greenearth Energy Ltd., NewCO2Fuels Ltd.

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MARCH 15, 2012

developer of a proprietary process to produce gasoline and other fuels from biomass and/or natural gas ( earlier post ), has completed its third round of funding with the recent $12-million investment by IC Green Energy Ltd, the renewable energy arm of Israel Corp. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

An EU-funded collaboration between universities and industry in Europe, Israel and the US is working to develop new engines, combustion technologies and fuels that will allow a substantial increase in the use of bioethanol in an urban context. United States: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company.

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MAY 5, 2021

Commercial electric vehicle company Arrival is partnering with Uber to develop an affordable, purpose-built electric vehicle (EV) for ride-hailing drivers. Arrival went public in March; the Arrival Car is the realization of the Small Vehicle Platform (SVP) referenced in the company’s Investor Deck.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Israel-based Evogene Ltd. Having recently completed two years of field trials under semi-arid conditions in Israel, the purpose of the field trials in Texas and Brazil is to evaluate the lines when grown in the two main target locations for future commercial growth, and further develop them to local conditions.

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MAY 5, 2020

Intel Corporation today has acquired Moovit, a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions company, for approximately $900 million ($840 million net of Intel Capital equity gain). Moovit was founded in 2012 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, with approximately 200 employees. Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Biofuels company Qteros has entered into a joint development project with Applied CleanTech (ACT), a commodities recycling company based in Israel, to use ACT’s Recyllose-based feedstock, produced from municipal wastewater solids (sewage sludge), for more efficient and lower-cost ethanol production by Qteros’ Q Microbe technology.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The Primus Green Energy technology is a proprietary combination of industry-proven methodologies and processes. The process has a conversion efficiency of 25%, and the company expects to achieve a conversion efficiency of 33%.

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AUGUST 12, 2012

FuturaGene, a company focused on enhancement of yield and. management techniques; and to find suitable plant species for different industrial applications in the area. FuturaGene, with facilities in Brazil, China and Israel, focuses its crop development through two main technology platforms: yield and processability.

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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. RFISee has raised $2.75

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Alcoa and Israel-based Phinergy have entered into a joint development agreement to develop further Phinergy ’s aluminum-air batteries. The company says that it has also developed an advanced battery management system to increase the energetic utilization of the battery.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Airbus and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) expect to create this year a dedicated joint venture to complete the development of TaxiBot—a robotic, pilot-controlled towing vehicle ( earlier post )—and to commercialize the system.

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