Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:12:58 +0000
UK startup Nyobolt says independent test have shown its niobium battery can charge to 80% in under 5 minutes.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:36:25 +0000
On July 3 the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that General Motors (GM) agreed to retire approximately 50 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) credits to resolve excess CO2 emissions identified through EPA’s light-duty vehicle in-use testing program. This agreement is the result of an EPA investigation that … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:35:34 +0000
As the automotive industry electrifies its vehicles, it is likely to affect both labor demand and the nature of employment in the automotive and parts sectors. Union pressures further complicate this changing automotive worker landscape. For many scholars, the involvement of unions is both part of the definition of a … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:55:20 +0000
The US truck maker PACCAR is among the firms pursuing the electric truck field, with support from a new LFP battery factory.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:35:29 +0000
Manganese nodules from the ocean floor could help feed the supply chain for EV batteries, but does the world need deep-sea mining?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:08:54 +0000
GM Defense aims to convince the US Army to electrify its fleet, with an assist from GM’s new Ultium electric vehicle battery platform
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:20:01 +0000
A couple of years ago, BF Nagy contacted me, asking if I would be interested in contributing to a book he was assembling. He already had Bill McKibben, Mark Z. Jacobson and others signed up, so how could I disagree? Fast forward two years, and the book, Proven Climate Solutions: … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:50:31 +0000
The red state of Georgia is welcoming electric vehicle manufacturers with open arms and and a pocket full of financial incentives.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:54:56 +0000
One of the bigger concerns many consumers have had about buying electric cars is that the big batteries that power the cars will need to be replaced after a few years, at very high cost. That may have been a legit concern initially, especially because without electric cars that had … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:33:42 +0000
1,200 GWh per year of battery cells would be enough cells for at least 12 million new EVs annually. Argonne National Laboratory projects that battery cell production in North America will exceed 1,200 GWh of capacity by 2030. That is enough to supply 12 to 15 million new EVs annually … [continued]
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