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IEA: Global EV Outlook 2025
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Unpacking Sales Outsource Solutions’ 2025 SHOW: Developing Deeper Relationships and Making Connections
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Driivz: 2025 State of EV Charging Network Operators Report
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Electri International: Understanding, Identifying, and Measuring Rework
May 19, 2025 ELECTRI has sponsored a research project to create a playbook for electrical contractors that will help you: Unpaid rework refers to activities in the field (including prefabrication) that have to be done more than once, or activities that remove work previously installed as part of the project, where no change order has… Read More…
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Siemens to Establish Global AI Manufacturing Technologies R&D Center for Battery & EV Production in Canada
May 26, 2025 Siemens will invest CAD $150 million over five years to establish a Global AI Manufacturing Technologies Research and Development (R&D) Center for Battery Production in Canada. The new R&D center, located initially at Siemens Canada’s head office in Oakville, as well as in Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, will focus on developing cutting-edge AI manufacturing technologies with an initial emphasis… Read More…
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Honda Postponing Ontario EV Supply Chain Investment by Two Years
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