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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, an international offshore oil and gas development and production company with operations in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, is expanding its deepwater operating and infrastructure expertise to offshore Israel. Paul Bulmahn, Chairman and CEO. In December 2010, Texas-based Noble Energy, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Better Place, the startup provider of electric car networks using a battery switch model, has decided to focus its efforts on Denmark and Israel, where the complete infrastructure is in place and commercial operations are underway. We need to prove to our customers, suppliers and investors that we have a sustainable, scalable model.

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MAY 26, 2013

Better Place, a high-profile developer and proponent of a battery switch model for electric vehicles ( earlier post ), filed a motion with the Lod District Court in Israel to ask for the dissolution of the company and the appointment of a temporary liquidator. billion (post money valuation on a fully diluted basis). Earlier post.).

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MAY 17, 2022

Electreon, a provider of wireless and in-road electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, signed an agreement of cooperation with Israel public transportation company Electra Afikim. Electra Afikim is the fourth-largest bus operator in Israel with roughly 1,400 buses.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

executed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Gazprom Marketing and Trading Switzerland AG (GM&T CH), a subsidiary of Russian gas major Gazprom, in which the parties agreed to negotiate in good faith a binding agreement for the sale of the LNG to be produced at the Floating LNG (FLNG) facility offshore Israel. Earlier post.). Pangea LNG B.V.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

executed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Gazprom Marketing and Trading Switzerland AG (GM&T CH), a subsidiary of Russian gas major Gazprom, in which the parties agreed to negotiate in good faith a binding agreement for the sale of the LNG to be produced at the Floating LNG (FLNG) facility offshore Israel. Earlier post.). Pangea LNG B.V.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Better Place CEO Evan Thornley, who took over in October 2012 ago after the departure of founding CEO Shai Agassi ( earlier post ), is now out, according to the company. Thornley presented the plan to the board of Israel Corporation, Better Place’s controlling shareholder, in December.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Energy (MOE) and the Israel Innovation Authority, announced $4.8 Projects that qualify for BIRD Energy funding must include one US and one Israeli company, or a company in one of the countries paired with a university or research institution in the other.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has integrated Horizon Energy’s AEROPAK fuel cell as a next-generation power system for IAI’s Bird Eye 650 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). The AEROPAK is a hydrogen proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell system developed by Singaporean company Horizon Energy Systems (HES).

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

announced discoveries at the Tamar Southwest (SW) exploration well offshore Israel and at the Dantzler exploration well in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Tamar SW well offshore Israel, testing a new exploration prospect, encountered approximately 355 feet of net natural gas pay within the targeted Miocene intervals. with 20 percent.

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MAY 16, 2011

Better Place unveiled its first EV it will sell in the Israel market, the Renault Fluence ZE. The company will guarantee four-year fixed-price packages, with no exit fees for customers who sell their car and leave the plan. Basic price of the vehicle will be NIS 122,900 (US$34,865) excluding the necessary service package.

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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, which includes $9 million of cost share from the companies selected for funding. Lod, Israel) and Blink Charging Co. Elbit Systems Ltd.

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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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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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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hyundai Motor Company announced that its heavy-duty, hydrogen-powered XCIENT Fuel Cell truck is entering Israel, its first Middle East market, to establish a hydrogen value chain in the region.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Israel startup HCL CleanTech Ltd. million in its first financing round from Burrill & Company and Khosla Ventures. HCL will use proceeds to pursue R&D in Israel and build a pilot plant in the US to be completed in 2010. HCL CleanTech process. Click to enlarge. Founded by Prof. Avram Baniel and Prof.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

SEAT, a Volkswagen Group company, and Champion Motors Ltd., the brand’s importer in Israel, have reached an agreement to create XPLORA, a transversal team of specialists focused on technological innovation projects aimed at the connected car and smart mobility services.

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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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JULY 2, 2012

After five weeks driving a Better Place electric car in Israel, I'm gaining a deeper insight into the company's plans. The Better Place annual subscription model, including service and support, costs more than the U.S. practice of buying an electric car outright and charging it at home.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

companies associated with China Guodian Corporation, to establish a Chinese joint venture for the commercial cultivation of microalgae. China Guodian is one of China’s largest power companies with more than 100 power stations. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & Trading Ltd.,

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JANUARY 9, 2021

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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MAY 11, 2022

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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AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the past 4 years, the company has been the recipient of 4 grants: 3 from the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources and one from California Energy Commissions Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG). Currently Tour has two proposals that are pending: one with the US DOE EERE and the other in Israel.

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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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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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AUGUST 28, 2012

The remaining proceeds will be used for similar purposes in Israel. The commitment from the European Investment Bank marks the fourth major commitment by a European Institution to Better Place as the company grows its European operations. In Israel and Denmark combined, the company has more than 500 Renault Fluence Z.E.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron is backed by leading venture capital investors and has received support from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Resources. Firouzi, R. Motallebi, C.W. Valencia, H.S. Fujimoto, L.A. Yang, and C.D.

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APRIL 28, 2014

The remarkable scope, overwhelming ambition, and epic failure of the Better Place electric-car service in Israel is worthy of a book, or several. But until one appears, Fast Company magazine has produced the most comprehensive article yet on the founding--and foundering--of the great Better Place experiment.

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The company also announced the appointment of Paul Harms as CEO of Better Place Netherlands. taxis operated by three leading Dutch taxi companies—Connexxion, Bios and TCA. Batter Place recently completed an historic “lap” around Israel by driving the Renault Fluence Z.E. in Israel year-to-date than in all of France.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

The two have joined forces with the company’s largest shareholder Israel Cleantech Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on backing Israel’s emerging clean technology companies, as well as B-2-V Partners and private investors. exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) technology, recently announced a $9.2-million

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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%. In addition to the openings of inner-city Polestar Spaces, the company debuted its new, larger, out-of-town Polestar Destinations.

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