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South Korea’s steel and chemicals group Posco Holdings Company said it has completed construction of a battery recycling plant in Poland, as the company continues to expand into the fast-growing global electric vehicle (EV) sector. The Poland Legnica Sourcing Center (PLSC), located in Brzeg Dolny – some 30 km north of the capital city Warsaw, has a processing capacity of 7,000 tons of used batteries per year. The plant will…

Seaplane airline Harbour Air continues to make progress toward making its entire fleet of planes electric by successfully completing its first point-to point test flight in Canada. The eBeaver electric plane flew 45 miles with plenty of reserve power left when it landed. Harbour Air began operations in 1982 with two small seaplanes as a service for the forestry industry in British Columbia, Canada, and is now North America’s largest seaplane airline. With over 40 aircraft in its current fleet, the company…

After a successful three-year project, Volvo Trucks is wrapping up its LIGHTS program. The pilot program ran from 2019 to 2022, studying class 8 Volvo VNR electric trucks traveling in California’s South Coast Air Basin, one of the United States’ largest cargo gateways. Volvo’s “Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions” or LIGHTS is a project that was started to determine what is needed to support the rollout of battery electric freight trucks. The transportation sector contributes the most toxic emissions of…

Last Updated: August 23, 2022, 15:13 ISTRepresentative Image (Photo: Harbour Air)The electric propulsion system used by Harbour Air is a result of its partnership with MagniX and other companies in the aviation spaceHarbour Air’s De Havilland Beaver completes its first end-to-end flight using its seaplane. The company took a cleaner approach by electrifying air travel to short-haul flights. Last week, on 17th August Harbour Air’s De Havilland Beaver, completed its first point-to-point testing. The plane took off at 8:12…

An aviation company at the cutting edge of electrified air travel has taken a significant step forward, completing a first-of-a-kind test flight using a retrofitted seaplane. Harbour Air's De Havilland Beaver completed a short hop from the Canadian mainland to Vancouver Island using its all-electric drivetrain, demonstrating the viability of its cleaner approach to short-haul flights.Harbour Air is the largest seaplane airline in North America and claims to transport around half a million passengers across 30,000…

Activist investor Ryan Cohen has exited his position in retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, according to a securities filing released Thursday afternoon.The filing shows that Cohen's RC Ventures dumped its stock on Tuesday and Wednesday at a range of prices between $18.68 per share and $29.22 per share. The firm also sold its call options. Cohen said in a filing earlier this week that he intended to sell his holdings of the meme stock.Shares of the stock fell 35% in extended trading, adding to a loss of nearly 20% during…

Diablo 2 streamer and content creator, MacroBioBoi, recently achieved a huge in-game milestone by being the first player in the world to finish the game on its hardest difficulty without attacking anything.  The run, which is dubbed a “Pacifist” run, took “just over 50 hours over two months of streams”, and was done without “Twinking” which, in the Diablo 2 community, means using the trading system to earn items. MacroBioBoi told PCGamer that “the only people who ever took the run past Normal had twinked a character with…

Omar Marques | LightRocket | Getty ImagesEther soared to a two-month high after developers successfully completed a final dress rehearsal for a pivotal upgrade expected to happen next month.The world's second-biggest cryptocurrency climbed as high as $1,927 on Thursday, marking its highest level since early June, according to data from CoinMetrics. The token was last trading at $1,901.69, up 4.4% on the day.On Wednesday, Ethereum ran its final dry run for the "merge," a key event that is expected to make it faster and…

An important milestone in the planned human spaceflight project Gaganyaan was completed on Wednesday with the successful test-firing of the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of crew escape system from Sriharikota spaceport, space agency ISRO said.The crew escape system takes away the crew module of Gaganyaan mission in case of any eventuality and rescues the astronauts, the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement.In case of aborting the mission during the initial phase of…

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