The Queensland Government has announced that Round 7 grant applications for their Made in Queensland (MIQ) Grant will open on September 24th. MIQ offers grants up to $2.5 million for Queensland small to medium manufacturers. The program is designed to help manufacturers increase their international competitiveness, productivity and innovation, and generate high-skilled jobs for the future by purchasing and implementing new and advanced equipment or technologies as part of operations. Whilst companies that can attain grant funding should look […]
Plans have been made by new company A2emCo to manufacture autonomous electric vehicles in Australia. The prototype has already been designed and CEO Michael Molitor expects the cars to be on the road by Q1 2020. An Australian battery gigafactory is also a possibility. Former head of operations at Tesla, Peter Carlsson, believes that 120-150 gigafactories will be required between 2020 and 2030. Molitor concludes, “So there’s going to be a gigafactory in Australia; there are going to be gigafactories […]