Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has announced that its proposal for researching and developing new ways to use CO2 in the production of concrete has been selected for the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation of Japan (NEDO1) grant project that encompasses technological developments in the areas of carbon-recycling.

Carbon-recycling technologies make"...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has launched a hiring spree in Shanghai with plans to bring on designers at its China studio and about 1,000 factory workers, job posts show, as the U.S. electric vehicle maker ramps up production in the world’s biggest auto market.

The posts on the Tesla human resources department’s official WeChat account mark the first time the California-based automaker has looked to hire designers in China."...

Japan’s Honda Motor will buy a 1% stake in Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and the two will jointly develop EV batteries, the companies said on Friday.

The move comes at a time when auto manufacturers and EV battery makers are joining forces in pursuit of an electric future. CATL, based in Ningde, said last year it would develop batteries with Honda and also supply batteries to Tesla , Toyota and Volkswagen AG. Honda and CATL said in a statement they would"...

New Delhi: India’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) on Wednesday reported a decline of 53.7 percent at 52,300 units in domestic sales for the month of June 2020 owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions. The sales stood at 113,031 units in the same month last year.

The company’s total sales also saw a dip of 54 percent at 57,428 units in the month under review as compared to 124,708 units sold in June 2019.

Exports also declined 56.4 percent"...

FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced that the United States (U.S.) Air Force has ordered more than 180 of the company’s Centaur™ unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), plus spares. The $23 million contract is sourced through the Dept. of Defense Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc II) program.

In 2017, the U.S. Army chose FLIR Systems’ legacy business, Endeavor Robotics, as its medium-sized robot provider for"...

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany — Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler said on Tuesday it aims to slash average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new cars sold in Europe by 20 percent in 2020, as EU-wide limits bite.

'This is a very big year for us and a year where we are taking electrification to the next level,' chief executive Ola Kallenius said in a telephone conference.

'This year alone we are looking at cutting up to 20 percent of CO2' in Europe, he added.

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BERLIN: A German court on Sunday ordered Tesla Inc to stop clearing forest land near the capital Berlin to build its first European car and battery factory, a victory for local environmental activists.
The US electric carmaker announced plans last November to build a Gigafactory in Gruenheide in the eastern state of Brandenburg.
The court ruling, by the higher administrative court of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, comes after the state environmental office gave a green light to clear 92 hectares of forest"...

YOKOHAMA: Nissan’s new chief executive said on Tuesday he would accept being fired if he fails to turn around Japan’s second biggest automaker which is grappling with plunging sales in the aftermath of the scandal surrounding ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn.
Makoto Uchida, who took over the top job in December, put his job on the line at the automaker’s shareholders’ meeting, where he faced demands ranging from cutting executive pay to offering a bounty to bring Ghosn back to Japan after he fled to"...