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Baidu granted China’s first permits for commercial fully driverless ride-hailing services

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The permits were granted to Baidu by government agencies in Wuhan and Chongqing's Yongchuan District. We believe these permits are a key milestone on the path to the inflection point when the industry can finally roll out fully autonomous driving services at scale.

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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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RWE's FUREC project, which aims to produce circular and green hydrogen from non-recyclable municipal solid waste in Limburg, the Netherlands, received a €108-million grant from the EU’s Innovation Fund.

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Texas awards $3.2M in EV infrastructure grants to Plano-Based Universal EV Chargers

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million in grants to provision and install 105 electric vehicle (EV) charging ports in 21 locations around the state of Texas. These grants will help accelerate the expansion of public EV charging in sectors such as hospitality and multifamily. Texas-based Universal EV Chargers has been awarded $3.2

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Vancouver-based Ceylon Graphite granted industrial mining licence for M1 mining project in Sri Lanka

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The Licence grants exclusive rights to mine graphite from within the M1 mining area. The Government of Sri Lanka granted the company’s wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd. Vancouver-based Ceylon Graphite Corp.

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Fusion Fuel awarded €3.6m in grant funding for 1MW green hydrogen mobility project in Portugal

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million in grant funding through Component 5 (‘C-5’) of Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan to develop a 1 MW decentralized green hydrogen production facility co-located with a hydrogen refueling station in Elvas, Portugal. Fusion Fuel has been awarded €3.6 Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Phoenix Motorcars, EasyMile win grant for development of first FMVSS-compliant autonomous shuttle bus in US

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The news comes as part of Houston Metro being selected among projects to receive funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Accelerating Innovative Mobility ( AIM ) grant of nearly $1.5

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Universal Hydrogen completes first taxi tests; granted experimental airworthiness certificate by FAA; Air New Zealand agreement

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Universal Hydrogen was granted a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to proceed with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft.