Daejeon’s 38.8 km hydrogen tram, billed as the longest catenary free line in the world, is now expected to open in 2030 instead of 2028, while Ulsan’s 10.85 km first section carries the first proof point in 2029.
A Journal of Energy Storage paper turns electric vehicle battery signals into text for a language model agent that diagnoses faults and drafts maintenance advice, tested on ten vehicles and judged by three experts, with accuracy figures not given in the abstract.
A review in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy puts the room temperature hydrogen capacity of metal organic frameworks generally below 1 wt%, against a US DOE on-board system target of 6.5 wt%, and flags the gap between powders and prototypes.
Global X launched an SMR ETF of about 15 companies whose top 10 holdings carry 97.8 percent of the weight, as the IEA scenario of 1,000 SMRs by 2050 would need about $670 billion of cumulative investment against about $5 billion a year now.
The average daily gap between the highest and lowest priced hours in the UK rose 80 percent to about £123 per MWh in September, as Europe’s roughly $40 billion battery fleet heads into a winter that will test whether more batteries mean less per battery.
BMW began series production of Gen6 round cell batteries in Shenyang, its third battery plant after Debrecen and Irlbach-Straßkirchen, with two more plants due in the coming months and first long wheelbase iX3 deliveries reported for November.
PowerCell won a repeat order for 10 Marine System 225 fuel cell systems for two more GMI Group hydrogen electric bulk carriers, lifting the total to 24 systems and 5.4 MW across four vessels, with deliveries in 2027 and 2028.
Toyota and Isuzu unveiled the new Sora hydrogen bus on 14 October with a range above 300 km from a hydrogen tank about 20 percent smaller, but price, tank size and delivery dates are not stated.
The European Investment Bank agreed up to €40 million in a convertible loan to Finland’s Steady Energy for its 50 MW thermal LDR-50 district heating reactor, its first SMR investment, with construction not due to start before 2029.
Volkswagen is recalling 22,524 ID.4 vehicles in the United States because charging above 80 percent may trigger thermal propagation in the high voltage battery, and neither the root cause nor the permanent repair is known.
