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Plus self-driving truck completes 4,000 mile Silk Road Journey
Plus self-driving truck completes 4,000 mile Silk Road Journey Plus, a global provider of self-driving truck technology, announced today the completion of a Silk Road expedition by an autonomous truck powered by the company’s supervised autonomous driving system, PlusDrive. The 4,000-mile long-haul...
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Lattice sensAI Solution Stack simplifies AI/ML Models on Smart Edge Devices
Lattice sensAI Solution Stack simplifies AI/ML Models on Smart Edge Devices Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, the low power programmable leader, today announced enhancements to its award-winning Lattice sensAI™ solution stack for accelerating AI/ML application development on low power Lattic...
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Velodyne Lidar wins Smart 50 Award for Intelligent Infrastructure solution
Velodyne Lidar wins Smart 50 Award for Intelligent Infrastructure solution Velodyne Lidar today announced its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution, powered by Bluecity, was named a winner of the 2021 Smart 50 Award, recognizing the solution’s innovation in smart city applications. The awards, present...
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Volta Zero introducing electric trucks to Italy
Volta Zero introducing electric trucks to Italy Volta Trucks, the leading full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer, has confirmed that the Volta Zero will make its Italian debut between 7 and 11 June in Milan. The customer event in Italy comes soon after similar successful French and Spanish ev...
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RH Commercial Vehicles opens 2nd Isuzu Truck dealership in England
RH Commercial Vehicles opens 2nd Isuzu Truck dealership in England Following the successful appointment of RH Commercial Vehicles as its truck dealer in Northampton in the autumn of 2020, commercial vehicle manufacturer Isuzu Truck UK has once again combined forces with RH Commercial Vehicles, with...
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Electromobility heads off-road with electric construction equipment
Electromobility heads off-road with electric construction equipment Electric car sales are increasing every year, more and more cities are using electric buses, and the first generation of electric trucks is hitting the highways — when it comes to electromobility, a lot of the early progress has bee...
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Seamless 5G mmWave Connectivity enables Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything
Seamless 5G mmWave Connectivity enables Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Movandi, a leader in new 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) technology today announced a successful demonstration of mmWave repeaters, delivering on the promise of seamless 5G cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications for th...
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Beaverswood charging points now include added protection
Beaverswood charging points now include added protection New electric vehicle (EV) charging point solutions from visual communications specialist Beaverswood provide improved levels of protection of installations in industrial, commercial and retail centre car parks across the UK. There are approxim...
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Teledyne Technologies completes acquisition of FLIR Systems Inc
Teledyne Technologies completes acquisition of FLIR Systems Inc Teledyne Technologies Incorporated has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of FLIR Systems, Inc. At each of the respective company’s special meeting of stockholders held on May 13, 2021, the stockholders approved and...
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5 innovative uses for Shipping Containers
5 innovative uses for Shipping Containers You’ve probably come across the word ‘cargotecture’ and wondered what it means. Well, this is a branch of architecture where shipping containers are used as building materials. As the construction industry continues to evolve, one of the factors that a...
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PlasticRoad made from plastic waste will deliver a circular infrastructure
PlasticRoad made from plastic waste will deliver a circular infrastructure According to a new study published by McKinsey (2021), over the next few years, the traditional road construction sector will gradually develop into an automated, digital industry that takes advantage of new materials. This t...
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What the Electric Vehicle revolution will mean for the UK business
What the Electric Vehicle revolution will mean for the UK business As part of our ongoing effort to understand the needs of the thousands of vehicle-owning companies, both large and small, Allstar commissioned a survey of their members and their attitudes toward electric vehicles (EV). They found th...
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Designing the world’s first electric flying racing car
Designing the world’s first electric flying racing car At Goodwood Speed Week, Airspeeder unveiled to the world the Mk3 racing prototype. This remotely-piloted craft showed the form of the world’s first full-scale and functional electric flying racing car. Today, the production version of this...
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Aston Martin designs immersive extended reality experience with NVIDIA technology
Aston Martin designs immersive extended reality experience with NVIDIA technology Legendary car manufacturer Aston Martin is using the latest virtual and mixed reality technologies to drive new experiences for customers and designers. The company has worked with Lenovo to use VR and AR to deliver a...
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Intel ZF and Mobileye technology chosen by Toyota for driver-assistance solutions
Intel ZF and Mobileye technology chosen by Toyota for driver-assistance solutions ZF and Mobileye, an Intel company, have been chosen by Toyota Motor Corp. to develop advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for use in multiple vehicle platforms starting in the next few years. As part of the agreem...
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Ouster chosen by Balyo for digital LiDAR for Robotic Forklifts
Ouster chosen by Balyo for digital LiDAR for Robotic Forklifts Ouster, Inc., a leading provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors for the industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and automotive industries, today announced that it has signed a strategic customer agreement with Ba...
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Semtech and Intel collaborate to develop LiDAR technology
Semtech and Intel collaborate to develop LiDAR technology Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of high-performance analogue and mixed signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced a collaboration with Intel to develop optical semiconductor platforms for Light Detection and Ranging (LiD...
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Intel and QuTech working on solving Quantum Interconnect bottlenecks
Intel and QuTech working on solving Quantum Interconnect bottlenecks Today, Intel and QuTech – a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research – published key findings in quantum research to address the “interconnect bottleneck”...
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Robotic Research and FPInnovations developing Resource Road Truck Platooning Technology
Robotic Research and FPInnovations developing Resource Road Truck Platooning Technology Robotic Research, a global leader in Automated Driving Systems (ADS), and FPInnovations, a Canadian private non-profit research and development centre, announced their collaboration to develop an off-road truck p...
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Autonomous Material Handlers developed by Third Wave Automation and Toyota
Autonomous Material Handlers developed by Third Wave Automation and Toyota Third Wave Automation, Inc. and Toyota Industries Corporation today announced a strategic partnership to produce the next generation of intelligent, fully autonomous material handling vehicles. Autonomous material-handling ve...
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Meet the all new Toyota Proace Electric Van
Meet the all new Toyota Proace Electric Van Toyota is launching its first zero emission, battery electric vehicle in the UK, the Proace Electric medium-duty panel van, adding a powerful new dimension to its Toyota Professional range of light commercial vehicles. The new model signals the company’s c...
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Vaisala and Yotta partner to deliver faster and smarter road condition data
Vaisala and Yotta partner to deliver faster and smarter road condition data Yotta, the leading global connected asset management and services provider, has partnered with Vaisala, a global leader in weather, environmental and industrial measurements, to enable UK councils to collect accurate high-qu...
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Accuracy reports UK’s electric bus fleet will be the largest in Europe by 2024
Accuracy reports UK’s electric bus fleet will be the largest in Europe by 2024 The UK is set to have the largest electric bus fleet in Europe by 2024, with the number of buses projected to grow by close to 180% from approximately 1,000 to 2,800 vehicles, according to forecasts by Accuracy, the...
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CoreRFID reporting system adapted to test weight bearing loads of roads
CoreRFID reporting system adapted to test weight bearing loads of roads Software firm CoreRFID is delivering a new tailored reporting system for BHP, which specialises in testing the weight bearing loads of roads. Based on CoreRFID’s market leading CheckedOK solution, the new system automates the re...
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Meet the revolutionary Arges Remote Spotlight
Meet the revolutionary Arges Remote Spotlight The Arges® is a brand new remote spotlight brought to you by Woodway. Designed from the ground up, it’s a small footprint with a big impact and packed with Whelen’s advanced technology. With an innovative mechanical design providing 360° of continuous ro...
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More Battery Gigafactories needed in Britain to meet 2040 140GWh capacity
More Battery Gigafactories needed in Britain to meet 2040 140GWh capacity The UK must rapidly accelerate the establishment of Gigafactories and new battery technology development, or risk losing domestic car production altogether – according to a report published today by expert manufacturing consul...
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Intel announces 11th Generation Core H-series mobile processors
Intel announces 11th Generation Core H-series mobile processors The new 11th Generation Intel® Core™ H-series mobile processors (code-named “Tiger Lake-H”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-11980HK — the “World’s Best Gaming Laptop Processor.” The Intel Core...
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Eaton DC-DC Converters to power new BEV Electric Trucks
Eaton DC-DC Converters to power new BEV Electric Trucks Power management company Eaton today announced its eMobility business has been awarded a contract to supply a 24-to-12-volt DC-DC converter for use in a commercial heavy-duty battery electric vehicle (BEV) that will power accessories, such as a...
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Roadways is investing in a new research, development and innovation centre in Brighton
Roadways is investing in a new research, development and innovation centre in Brighton Roadways is investing in a new research, development and innovation centre at Plus X Brighton on Lewes Road. James Bailey, Roadways chief executive said, “This centre will take our innovative environmental work to...
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Pouch launches a smarter alternative for Commercial Auto Insurance
Pouch launches a smarter alternative for Commercial Auto Insurance Pouch today launched a simple, no-hassle commercial auto insurance that rewards small businesses for safe driving. Aimed at contractors, landscapers, florists, and other small businesses that depend on a fleet of vehicles, Pouch offe...
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Autonomous mobile EffiBOTs rolled out at SEAT factory in Barcelona
Autonomous mobile EffiBOTs rolled out at SEAT factory in Barcelona SEAT has introduced new autonomous robots to work collaboratively with its staff at the Martorell factory. The autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) – also known as EffiBOTs – work autonomously yet collaboratively with the workforce at SEA...
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Velodyne Lidar launches AI Intelligent Infrastructure solution with Bluecity
Velodyne Lidar launches AI Intelligent Infrastructure solution with Bluecity Velodyne Lidar today launched its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution designed to solve some of the most challenging and pervasive infrastructure problems. This new solution combines Velodyne’s award-winning lidar sensors a...
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5G goes long distance with multi-gigabit extended-range 5G over mmWave
5G goes long distance with multi-gigabit extended-range 5G over mmWave UScellular, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Ericsson and Inseego today announced the companies have successfully achieved a 5G extended-range milestone over millimeter Wave (mmWave) on a commercial network. This milestone was accomp...
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Ultra long range detection of dark objects enables safer night driving
Ultra long range detection of dark objects enables safer night driving Aeva Technologies, Inc., a leader in next generation 4D LiDAR sensing and perception systems, announced today that its industry-first 4D LiDAR now delivers beyond 500m detection range, significantly enhancing its previous perform...
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Outsight introduces the Augmented LiDAR Box with pre-processing software engine
Outsight introduces the Augmented LiDAR Box with pre-processing software engine Outsight, the pioneer of 3D Spatial Intelligence solutions, announced today the launch of a game-changing product: the Augmented LiDAR Box (ALB). It’s the first real-time LiDAR Software Engine that allows application dev...
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Volta Trucks accelerates its ambitious Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy
Volta Trucks accelerates its ambitious Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy Volta Trucks, the leading full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer, has announced its Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy as it delivers on its vision of decarbonising the logistic industry, offering cleaner air and safer street...
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Saietta partners with Padmini VNA for electric motor sales in India
Saietta partners with Padmini VNA for electric motor sales in India Saietta Group, a specialist in Axial Flux Technology (AFT) electric motors, has today announced a landmark partnership agreement with Padmini VNA, one of India’s premier Tier 1 automotive suppliers. The commercial agreement will see...
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OmniVision reduces Camera Design Complexity with OAX4000 ASIC Image Processor
OmniVision reduces Camera Design Complexity with OAX4000 ASIC Image Processor OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the new OAX4000, a companion image signal processor (ISP) that offers design flexibility for next-generation automot...
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Cooper Tire releases Discoverer Rugged Trek all-terrain tyres
Cooper Tire releases Discoverer Rugged Trek all-terrain tyres With summer road trip season fast approaching, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has announced the U.S. launch of the new Discoverer® Rugged Trek™ tire, which is now available for consumers nationwide. An all-season pickup truck and...
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TORSUS PRAETORIAN rugged off-road 4×4 bus gets technical upgrades
TORSUS PRAETORIAN rugged off-road 4×4 bus gets technical upgrades TORSUS, manufacturer of the world’s toughest, heavy-duty off-road buses, today announces a comprehensive range of all-new 2021 technical updates for its flagship vehicle, the TORSUS PRAETORIAN. Designed to transport personn...
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Ford accelerates investment in Solid-State Batteries
Ford accelerates investment in Solid-State Batteries Ford Motor Company today announced it is growing its investment in Solid Power, an industry-leading producer of all-solid-state batteries for EVs. Initially investing in Solid Power in 2019, Ford is making an additional equity investment to help a...
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Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop gasoline with 20 percent lower CO² emissions
Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop gasoline with 20 percent lower CO² emissions The available range of renewable low-carbon fuels is growing. Following on from R33 Blue Diesel, Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now come up with a low-carbon gasoline. Their new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly...
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Velodyne LiDAR selected as exclusive supplier for FF91 Luxury Electric Vehicle
Velodyne LiDAR selected as exclusive supplier for FF91 Luxury Electric Vehicle Velodyne Lidar today announced it has been selected by Faraday Future as the exclusive supplier of lidar for Faraday’s flagship FF 91 all-electric vehicle (EV). Velodyne’s solid state Velarray H800 lidar sensors will powe...
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Tula DMD tech reduces Rare Earth Materials and improves Electric Motor efficiency
Tula DMD tech reduces Rare Earth Materials and improves Electric Motor efficiency Tula Technology, Inc., a leader in propulsion efficiency, reported today at the International Vienna Motor Symposium that their product Dynamic Motor Drive (DMD™) mitigates efficiency losses of electric motors w...
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Avalue launches CAXA0 semi-rugged Tablet PC
Avalue launches CAXA0 semi-rugged Tablet PC Avalue Technology, a global industrial PC solution provider and an associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, is pleased to announce the latest semi-rugged tablet PC, CAXA0, manufactured using reinforced frames, watertight seals,...
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Continental and Iteris collaborate on Intelligent Roadway Infrastructure Technology
Continental and Iteris collaborate on Intelligent Roadway Infrastructure Technology Global mobility supplier Continental and Iteris, Inc., the leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced they have entered into a collaboration agreement to explore intelligent infrastructure so...
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RoboSense and Webasto working on Smart Roof Module with Integrated MEMS LiDAR
RoboSense and Webasto working on Smart Roof Module with Integrated MEMS LiDAR During the Shanghai Auto Show, RoboSense, a smart and automotive LiDAR system provider, and Webasto, the global Top 100 automotive supplier and market leader for roof systems, announced cooperation on the Smart Roof Sensor...
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Plus and Cummins collaborate on Natural Gas Powertrain Autonomous Trucks
Plus and Cummins collaborate on Natural Gas Powertrain Autonomous Trucks Plus, a leading company in self-driving truck technology, announced today a new initiative with global engine manufacturer Cummins to develop the industry’s first driver-in, supervised autonomous trucks powered by natural gas....
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Cincoze sunlight-readable Panel Computers open up Smart Cities
Cincoze sunlight-readable Panel Computers open up Smart Cities At the heart of smart cities is the integration of AIoT technologies. Combining human-machine interfaces (HMIs), sensors, embedded computers, networks, and AI data analysis, these technologies provide the tools to assess public infrastru...
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Orange Business Services IoT solutions chosen for Mine vehicle unloading and quality monitoring
Orange Business Services IoT solutions chosen for Mine vehicle unloading and quality monitoring Raspadskaya, a Russian coal mining company partly owned by British steel making and mining group EVRAZ, has deployed an Orange Business Services bespoke IoT solution at its Russian coal preparation factor...
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Zero emission bus funding to help UK minimise carbon from local public transport
Zero emission bus funding to help UK minimise carbon from local public transport In order to achieve the long-term objective of reducing the carbon footprint in the United Kingdom, the government has been incorporating various precautionary measures, as well as several steps that can lead to transfo...
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Hino Motors and REE Automotive partner for next-generation commercial mobility
Hino Motors and REE Automotive partner for next-generation commercial mobility Hino Motors, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, and REE Automotive, an innovator in e-mobility, today announced the signing of a strategic business alliance agreement to realize their shared vision of “providing ne...
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Bosch looks to the future with AIoT, electrification and green hydrogen
Bosch looks to the future with AIoT, electrification and green hydrogen Bosch, the supplier of technology and services, is combining the internet of things (IoT) with artificial intelligence (AI) and believes electromobility will allow it to develop new business opportunities on the back of the prof...
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Blickfeld Sensors introduces Smart LiDAR with integrated pre-processing
Blickfeld Sensors introduces Smart LiDAR with integrated pre-processing LiDAR manufacturer and perception software provider Blickfeld enables Smart LiDAR functionality on their sensors. This makes Blickfeld sensors the first LiDAR sensors that not only collect detailed 3D data but are also capable o...
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Allison Transmission collaborates with Emergency One on Electric Axle Integration
Allison Transmission collaborates with Emergency One on Electric Axle Integration Allison Transmission, a leading designer and manufacturer of conventional, hybrid and electric vehicle propulsion solutions, in collaboration with Emergency One (UK) Ltd, the market leader in the United Kingdom in the...
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MINIEYE launches full-area car Sensing Solution at Shanghai Auto Show
MINIEYE launches full-area car Sensing Solution at Shanghai Auto Show Recently at the Shanghai Auto Show, MINIEYE, a self-driving technology developer, launched a full-area sensing solution for passenger cars. Out-of-cabin sensing is the ADAS solution from L0 to L2+. In-cabin sensing includes a numb...
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Rutgers selects Iteris to support New Jersey DoT Automated Vehicle Initiative
Rutgers selects Iteris to support New Jersey DoT Automated Vehicle Initiative Iteris, a global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been selected by Rutgers University’s Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) to support the design and...
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New York City Transit Buses powered by Allison Transmission eGen Flex solution
New York City Transit Buses powered by Allison Transmission eGen Flex solution Allison Transmission, a leading designer and manufacturer of vehicle propulsion solutions for commercial and defence vehicles, the largest global manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty fully automatic transmissions, and a...
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Renesas and SiFive partner to develop RISC-V solutions for automotive applications
Renesas and SiFive partner to develop RISC-V solutions for automotive applications Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to joi...
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World’s largest mobile Battery Energy Storage System supplied by Power Edison
World’s largest mobile Battery Energy Storage System supplied by Power Edison Power Edison, the leading developer and provider of utility-scale mobile energy storage solutions, has been contracted by a major U.S. utility to deliver the system this year. At more than three megawatts (3MW) and t...
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