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The "world's first ultra-large full battery dump truck" is being put to work at a mine in Zambia. The prototype will undergo validation testing under operating loads to verify basic performance of the vehicle itself, and the support infrastructure.

Hitachi Rail has announced the completion of a phase one rollout of its Masaccio trains in Italy. Dubbed the Blues by rail operator Trenitalia, the passenger fleet is the first in Europe to run on battery, electric and diesel power.

What do you do when you have too much garbage but not enough energy? Convert one into the other. That’s the thinking behind the waste-to-energy plants that are beginning to pop up around the globe, and now the Government of Dubai has announced plans to build the world’s largest.

As skyscrapers grow ever higher, getting from the bottom to the top in a timely fashion becomes more of a problem. But there's little time wasted in Hitachi's ultra-high-speed elevator, which has reached 1,260 m/min during independent testing in Guangzhou, making it the world's fastest.

On April 4, 2017, the world's largest boring machine broke through to the open air. Called Bertha,the story of how it made its journey under the skyscrapers of the port city is not only a tale of a remarkable machine, but also of proving the old adage that what can go wrong will go wrong.

As electric cars become more common, manufacturers are battling to find new ways to improve their hardware and lower costs. Over at Honda, the desire to improve its battery-powered cars has led to a new partnership with Hitachi, which has a long history of building motors for electric vehicles.

Hitachi has developed an offshore wind turbine to milk more power from light-wind locations. The 5MW turbine features a rotor sweep diameter of 136m (446 feet), 15 percent greater than the previous model from the company, suited for areas with average annual wind speeds under 7.5 m/sec (16.7 mph).

Designed to identify and assist customers who look like they need help, EMIEW3 can pass sales information on to other robots, and even stand up if it's knocked over in the hustle and bustle of a sales environment.

A new kind of smart key could help drivers make a very important decision not to drive when they've had too much to drink.

In an effort to make such inspections safer, cheaper, and faster, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has developed the Stinger; a free-swimming, remote-controlled robot that replaces humans for cleaning and inspecting reactor vessels.

Hitachi, in partnership with MIT, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley are working on new reactor designs that use transuranic nuclear waste for fuel; leaving behind only short-lived radioactive elements.

Hitachi has announced that it’s installing the world's fastest ultra-high-speed elevators in the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre skyscraper in Guangzhou, China. Making up two out of a total of 95 elevators in the building, the new lifts can reach record-breaking speeds of 1,200 m/min.