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AUGUST 4, 2023

More than 1GWh of batteries are now sailing on waters globally, reflecting 72% industry growth in 2022, according to a new report from IDTechEx. Based on primary supplier interviews, it further shares technology analysis and price information on marine Li-ion battery systems ($/kWh 2020 - 2044) and electric propulsion systems.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

No other media outlet compares US auto industry trends with as much history and depth as we do in these. First, before getting into the automaker comparisons for the second quarter of 2023 versus the second quarters of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, […] It’s time for another one of our quarterly US auto sales reports.

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MARCH 16, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced a $156-million funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0002997 ) that will advance high impact applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the US industrial sector.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced a $156-million funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0002997 ) that will advance high impact applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the US industrial sector.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

A new report from RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) finds that it is technically and economically feasible for China’s steel industry to decarbonize by 2050 through demand reduction, steel recycling and switching to green routes. This makes the steel industry the country’s second-largest carbon emitting sector behind power generation.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Chart Industries and fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power Inc. million of equipment orders from Plug that are booked in the third quarter of 2020. The first order of a similar size was booked in July 2020. In conjunction with the agreement, Chart received $7.8 Chart’s position in the hydrogen value chain.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Following a series of major expansion announcements in 2021, China’s cathode industry is moving closer to having its first producer with a capacity of one million tonnes per annum (tpa), according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2024

Former General Motors (GM) executive Terry Woychowski, who is now President of engineering consultancy Caresoft Global, called the arrival of the Seagull a “clarion call for the rest of the auto industry,” adding that it’s a “significant event” (via CNBC ). auto industry appeared first on TESLARATI.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Initiated by MAN with partners from industry and research institutes, it aims to define the steps necessary to produce a dual-fuel, medium-speed engine capable of running on diesel-fuel and ammonia.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Falling sales in H2 2019 in China, the largest market for EVs, and a global reduction in sales caused by lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic in H1 2020 slowed lithium demand growth, impacting demand from both battery and industrial applications.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have shed new light on the formation mechanisms of a rare earth-bearing mineral that is in increasingly high demand across the globe for its use in the green energy and tech industries. electronics, wind turbines, hybrid cars). 0c01313.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Niobium is a metal primarily used by the steel industry as a ferroalloy strengthening element. Adding niobium reduces the amount and weight of steel required, an important feature for the automotive industry but also for infrastructure. Niobium consumption has increased at a 5.0% Niobium and batteries.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Two chemical pre-treatment processes are widely used in industrial settings to prepare for coating adhesion and protect aluminum alloy surfaces against corrosion. DoD owns and operates hundreds of industrial facilities that manufacture and repair these vehicles and equipment, spending more than $20 billion in corrosion protection annually.

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JUNE 8, 2021

In 2020, net petroleum imports (total imports minus exports) were negative for the first time since the US Energy Information Administration began tracking them—i.e., combustion use in the industrial and transportation sectors. the United States exported more petroleum than it imported. Net imports peaked in 2005 at 12.5

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Nidec Corporation’s Board of Directors approved a resolution to acquire the shares of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., After completion of the acquisition, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool will become Nidec-Shimpo’s third main business.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To find out about the latest technologies being used by the agricultural industry, I virtually attended the second annual AgTech Innovation Summit , held in February in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The event was hosted by AeroFarms , an indoor vertical farm company based in Newark, N.J, that has an R&D facility.

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JUNE 18, 2021

As part of the THINKTANK Industrial Resource Strategies, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been working with Audi on the pilot project “Chemical Recycling of plastics from automotive manufacturing.” The material cycles closed in this way save valuable resources, energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (CE&IG), a part of the Nikkiso Co., In 2020, CE&IG expanded its capabilities further with the acquisition of what was GP-Strategies’ Alternative Fuels Division. This addition provides yet another major manufacturing facility in Southern California.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With so many of the items we interact with in our daily lives — from soaps and fertilizers to pharmaceuticals to petrochemicals — deriving from products of the chemical industry, the sector has become a major source of economic activity and employment for many nations, including the United States and China.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

one of the leading ammonia marketers in the world, and CF Industries Holdings, Inc., Under the memorandum of understanding, CF Industries and Mitsui plan to execute various preliminary studies on the feasibility of blue ammonia production in the United States. Mitsui & Co., CF has said that it could produce approximately 3.5

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

IVECO, FPT Industrial and Nikola unveiled the maquette of the Nikola TRE battery-electric truck, the first vehicle resulting from the joint venture between CNH Industrial and Nikola, which involves the commercial vehicle brand and the powertrain specialist. Earlier post.). The bridge to fuel-cell electric heavy-duty trucking.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Final production and testing of the new vehicles will be completed at Plug Power’s headquarters in Latham, New York, before they are made commercially available to the public in the third quarter of 2020.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In good news for the Australian mining industry, miners produced 55,000 tonnes of lithium in 2021, a 28% increase from the 39,700 tonnes of lithium produced in 2020. This is approximately half of global production.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The US auto industry has been declining steadily for a few years at least. Compared to 2021, the American auto industry’s annual sales were down by more than 1 million units, or 8%. Compared to 2020, there were “only” down by 725,726 units (5%). But compared to 2019, they were down by more than 3 […]

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Auto Industry 2019 Industrial Industry 89

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APRIL 14, 2023

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents after accounting for sequestration from the land sector—representing a 6% increase from 2020. from 2020 to 2021. increase in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) from 2020 to 2021 due to the gradual recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited travel in 2020.

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JUNE 30, 2021

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published its provisional data about the CO 2 emissions of newly registered passenger cars and vans in Europe in 2020. According to the EEA’s provisional data, the average emissions of new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom in 2020 were 107.8

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

The 2020 Global Status on CCS report also finds that there are a total of 65 commercial CCS facilities in various stages of development globally. Source: 2020 Global Status on CCS. 2020 saw increased ambition and support for CCS in Europe as well. World map of CCS facilities at various stages of development.

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JULY 14, 2021

Based on a substantial shareholding agreement in May 2020, Volkswagen Group entered a strategic cooperation framework with the major Chinese battery producer headquartered at Hefei. In May 2020, both partners signed binding agreements that Volkswagen (China) Investment Co. Volkswagen Group and Gotion High-Tech Co., billion.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Ballard Power Systems signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chart Industries, Inc.—a Both Ballard and Chart have provided hydrogen solutions and equipment to industry for multiple decades (nearly 100 years in total), including a very rapid increase in sales activity in 2020 and year-to-date 2021.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the Battery Cell Research Production Center, a new R&D and large-scale industrial manufacturing plant for lithium-ion cells; the center will receive an investment of €500 million.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

The US aluminum industry continues to make significant investments to meet growing demand for automotive aluminum. The industry supports nearly 700,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs across the nation and since 2013 has invested more than $2.6 —Mario Greco.

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JUNE 15, 2022

TotalEnergies has entered into an agreement with Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) to acquire a 25% interest in Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL). ANIL will be the exclusive platform of AEL and TotalEnergies for the production and commercialization of green hydrogen in India. billion.

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JULY 1, 2020

Designed to service customers from both the production vehicle and race car industries, Windshear’s tunnel features a closed-air circuit, temperature-controlled system built around a rolling road. The production version of the Lucid Air will debut in an online reveal on 9 September 2020. —Peter Rawlinson.

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APRIL 10, 2019

million) industry-backed research hub was supported by the Federal Government. The Future Battery Industries CRC will address the existing gaps in the nation’s capacity to respond to this growth industry by creating opportunities to process, manufacture and deploy batteries, delivering an estimated $2.5

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MARCH 1, 2021

Nippon Steel’s announcement is the latest example of the challenges faced by the steel industry in developed economies, notes Roskill: overcapacity and environmental regulations. The Japanese steel industry has a total capacity of 130 Mtpy. —Nikkei report.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Antonio Tajani, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship, introduced the EC’s CARS 2020 Action Plan aimed at reinforcing the European automotive industry’s competitiveness and sustainability heading towards 2020. of around 16% of GDP to as much as 20% by 2020.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The Volkswagen Group is pushing ahead with the integration of its plants into the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud; the aim is to further improve the efficiency of the plants and reduce production costs. In 2020, the Group will integrate 15 more into the Cloud, said Gerd Walker, Head of Production of the Volkswagen Group. >. Earlier post.)

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