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Sustainability vs. Scalability: Can Green Automotive Manufacturing Meet Global Demand?

Dinesh Mishra

In 2020, McKinsey reported that material production makes up nearly 60% of an EV’s life-cycle emissions. The European Commission’s Fit for 55 package, for example, sets clear CO₂ reduction targets for manufacturers, while the U.S. The production phase of EVs is also considerably energy-intensive.

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BMW testing Figure 01 humanoid at South Carolina automotive plant

Robotics Business Review

BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., STR is an AMR optimized for intralogistics work in BMW’s automotive factories. ” It also claimed that the Spartanburg plant as the first automotive plant in the world to use an exoskeleton for overhead work. and it has assembled more than 6.3

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Artificial noises to be added to e-scooters to improve safety

E&T

Figures from NHS Ambulance Trusts across England, Wales and Northern Ireland showed that that e-scooter accidents rocketed by around 82 per cent from 2020 to 2021. This followed the introduction of e-scooter rental services in London on a trial basis from the middle of 2020.

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Revolutionising Industry 4.0 carbon fibre wheels

Manufacturer's Monthly

A 2020 report released by Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work revealed that Australia ranked last with all other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) economies in producing manufactured goods. Only in October 2020, when the federal government invested $1.3 ” The post Revolutionising Industry 4.0

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EU approves ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2035

E&T

The rules trail similar measures put in place by the UK, which announced in 2020 that a ban on new diesel and petrol cars would be instituted by 2030. Once this process is completed, the new legislation will be published in the Official Journal of the Union and enter into force. This deal is good news for car drivers.

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Five-Axis Turnkey Machine Halves Medical Shop’s Cycle Times

Modern Machine Shop

In 2020, ARCH’s Newtown, Connecticut, facility bought a five-axis Grob machine to consolidate operations for a medical robotics part from several machines to one. When management encountered the five-axis horizontal Grob G550, they found the size of the table more than fit the 630-mm by 630-mm pallets for the rotors.

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Four-Axis Horizontal Machining Doubles Shop’s Productivity

Modern Machine Shop

The shop’s range of capabilities also expanded through its ISO 9001 certification, which it earned just after moving to Estacada in 2020. The shop custom machines the fixturing in-house to fit its applications, using SolidWorks for design and Mastercam for programming.