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Lion Electric, a Canadian manufacturer of electric trucks and buses, has secured investment to build its own battery manufacturing plant and innovation centre in Quebec. The company intends to invest approximately $185 million CAD (US$ 148 million) providing an annual production capacity of 5 GWh...

Toronto-based autonomous trucking startup NuPort Robotics has received $1 million in funding from the Ontario government for a new automated heavy duty trucking initiative, working in collaboration with retail company Canadian Tire. This investment has been matched by $1 million commitments from NuPort and Canadian...

Volvo Group has warned that the global shortage of semiconductors will have a substantial impact on production in the second quarter. The Group is to implement stop days across its global truck manufacturing operations, which it currently estimates to total between two and four weeks...

Volkswagen plans to build half a dozen battery cell plants in Europe and expand infrastructure for charging electric vehicles globally, accelerating its efforts to speed up the mass adoption of battery-powered cars. The world’s second largest carmaker, which recently signalled a major shift towards battery-powered...

Two former engineers from SpaceX, the American space transportation services company founded by Elon Musk, have proposed a novel two-stage electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Talyn Air’s eVTOL concept comprises a lift vehicle and a cruise vehicle that are connected for take-off and...

Leading European car makers have raised significant doubts over the increasingly held view that hydrogen is the fuel of the future with battery electric vehicles destined to be a transition technology. Speaking to the Financial Times, Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess said, “You won’t see...

Dutch smart grid solutions developer Alfen has been selected by Shell to install energy storage capacity to support its ultrafast electric vehicle charging service at a forecourt in Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. The 350kWh battery-based system will provide additional power to reduce load on the grid...

Menlo Park-based HyPoint, a developer of hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility, has unveiled the first operable prototype of its turbo air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell system. The NASA award-winning fuel cell technology has been developed by an international team of engineers...

Siemens Mobility has won a contract in the Netherlands to develop a national intelligent Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform that will allow transport providers to integrate travel options. The contact with RiVier, a joint venture of Netherlands Railways (NS) and the urban rail operators...

Universal micro mobility charging infrastructure provider DUCKT has been awarded a pilot project from the Paris Municipality to install 150 dock, lock and charge points across the French capital’s Rive Gauche district of the 13th Arrondissement. “The aim of this experiment is to provide a...