The energy price index surged in January, led by natural gas (15%) and crude oil (8.1%).
Non-energy prices saw little change.
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February 3, 2025
The new R&D facility is located in Germany’s Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region and the opening is planned for 2025. Facility’s energy-efficient design and advanced renewable energy systems aim to align with the Group’s mission to cut its carbon footprint and promote zero-emission solutions. The new R&D facility shows Hyundai Motor Group’s commitment to innovation, creativity and sustainability.
January 23, 2025
- Two industry leaders cooperate to roll out dynamic energy and load management systems for High Power Charging (HPC) infrastructure
- Special focus on in-depot and in-transit charging applications enable charge management and smart energy services for electric vehicles including trucks, buses and passenger cars
- Common offering provides reliable charging at lowest possible energy cost for truck/bus and is integrated into local depot and energy ecosystem
- Cooperation advances mobility electrification, key component of energy transition
January 17, 2025
UBTech and Foxconn have signed a ‘comprehensive long-term partnership’ partnership to deploy more robots to work in the iPhone maker’s factories.
The Chinese robotics company has entered a collaboration with Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai), the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer and a primary assembler for Apple. This collaboration aims to integrate UBTech’s humanoid robots into Foxconn’s production lines, enhancing efficiency and precision in the assembly of complex electronics and electric vehicles.
January 16, 2025
IEEE has announced together with the IEEE Computer Society (CS), its 2025 Top Technology Predictions. The report contains a forecast of the trends that will have the greatest impact on the global computer engineering industry in 2025, redefining and re-shaping the global community. For 2025, the team of experts identified the top five computer science and engineering technologies that will have the most significant impact on the global ecosystem, focusing on those with the most advancement, largest market adoption, and market maturity.
January 15, 2025
BMW Group has entered into a new European partnership for the recycling of high-voltage batteries. As part of the collaboration, used high-voltage batteries from the BMWʼs development, production, and markets in Europe will be delivered to “SK tes” where they are first mechanically shredded to concentrate the metals in the black mass, followed by chemical processing to recover raw materials such as nickel, lithium, and cobalt.
January 13, 2025
The omnipresence of artificial intelligence across the CES 2025 landscape is a clear proof of the numerous tech companies direction to making AI the center of our known digital universe.
Companies like Delta, BMW, LG, Hisense, Samsung and others have recognized that the data their systems have been collecting and moving among their once disparate digital systems, can be pulled together by AI into an almost organic whole that proactively operates at your behest.