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‘It’s a net zero cargo solution’: could Victoria become home to an airship renaissance?

The Guardian Manufacturing

French startup Flying Whales has a vision to begin manufacturing its airships – which instead of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg, will rely on 180,000 cubic metres of helium – by 2025, with an eye to gaining regulatory certification to begin operating in skies by the end of 2027.

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Planzer and LOXO roll out urban pilot for autonomous vehicles in Switzerland

Robotics Business Review

A Volkswagen ID Buzz cargo van equipped with LOXO’s Digital Driver navigation software. The country’s new Automated Vehicles ( AV ) Act 1 is expected to take effect in early 2025. At the center of the project is “Mathilde,” a Volkswagen ID Buzz cargo van.

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Air Inuit launches first B737-800 freighter

Canadian Manufacturing

The B737-800 has been converted into a freighter with a main deck cargo door and will operate primarily between Montreal and Air Inuit’s cargo hubs in Kuujjuaq and La Grande. Both are scheduled to go into service in 2025. It has a capacity of 23,000 kilograms.

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Cdn. bus manufacturer plans to deliver 88 EVs in West Virginia

Canadian Manufacturing

” School buses for other eastern markets like New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and western markets like Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon are in the fiscal 2025 production schedule as well. .” SOUTH CHARLESTON — GreenPower Motor Company Inc.,

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Championing Zero Emissions in the Commercial Vehicle Industry with Hydrogen and Electric Powertrains

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Meanwhile, electric options in cargo vans and medium duty trucks were noticeable. ABB aims to launch the MCS offering by 2025. The PV1 is for urban optimized mobility, the PV5 is a people mover and mobile workshop, and the PV7 is a cargo delivery and multi van.

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Omega Seiki Mobility (OSM) to deploy 500 EV Three-Wheelers with Kissan Mobility (OnEv) for last-mile delivery

Dinesh Mishra

a zero-emission logistics provider, have today announced a strategic partnership to deploy Electric Three Wheeler Cargo Vehicles for last-mile delivery across India. These vehicles play a crucial role in supporting e-commerce deliveries and cargo transport within industrial complexes, contributing to reduced noise and air pollution.

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Boeing will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production

Canadian Manufacturing

The company will further delay the rollout of a new plane, the 777X, to 2026 instead of 2025. It will also stop building the cargo version of its 767 jet in 2027 after finishing current orders. Boeing had already imposed rolling temporary furloughs, but Ortberg said those will be suspended because of the impending layoffs.