Australian researchers and businesses have been invited to be a part of a moonshot project led by electric vehicle company Polestar, which aims to launch a “truly climate-neutral” car for release in 2030. The Swedish auto company announced its Polestar 0 project in April last year, and this week it is seeking expressions of interest…
Building products company Speedpanel has been awarded a $100,000 grant to refine its steel manufacturing processes in a ten-month project with Deakin University and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC.
Australia’s quantum academics need to accept the government will limit their international collaborations with world leading researchers because of an increasingly contested geopolitical environment, according to Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro.
Avalon Airport has been chosen for Hanwha Defense Australia’s $170 million Armoured Vehicle Centre of Excellence.
CSIRO’s venture capital arm, Main Sequence, has led a Series A round for Menlo Park, California-headquartered factory automation-as-a-service company RIOS Intelligent Machines, with the US company to establish a presence in Australia.
The Reinforced Earth Company, a civil engineering products business, will establish a new site at Avon Industrial Park, near Northam in Western Australia.
Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley has backed the domestic manufacturing of US-developed mRNA vaccines, likening the new capability as a “honeypot” which will have benefits beyond Covid-19 and stimulate the local sector.
Ergon Energy has opened a new $6 million energy R&D facility in Cairns, described by the Queensland government as one of the most sophisticated of its kind in the nation.
A CSIRO team has developed a world-first technique to stabilise vaccines, which are sensitive to heat and must usually be kept refrigerated, which the organisation says could eventually increase the accessibility of life-saving medicines for people in remote communities and developing nations.
Two recent announcements hint at a seismic shift about to hit Australia’s coal industry.
Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canada’s Brookfield put forward an extraordinary joint bid to takeover AGL Energy, Australia’s biggest emitting company, over the weekend. If successful, it would see AGL’s coal-fired power stations shut down early. And last week, Origin Energy announced that the country’s largest coal plant, Eraring, will close seven years early.