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OCTOBER 26, 2020

HERO uses a proprietary catalyst to turn hydrogen into continuous industrial heat without combustion. The only by-product is water. Star Scientific is developer of the Hydrogen Energy Release Optimizer (HERO). The heat-generating reaction between the catalyst, hydrogen and oxygen is completely flameless.

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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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MARCH 6, 2020

In 2019, the market share of lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cathode chemistry fell to 6% in global passenger EV batteries by watt-hours deployed (i.e. Overall, the combined global market share of ternary cathodes (including NCM and nickel-cobalt-aluminum (NCA) varieties) in passenger EV batteries reached 90% in 2019, up from 83% in 2018.

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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. The unified cell is compatible to all major upcoming innovations in both product and production technology. are deepening their partnership.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

This marks a 6% drop from $140/kWh in 2020. Continuing cost reductions bode well for the future of electric vehicles; however, the impact of rising commodity prices and increased costs for key materials such as electrolytes has put pressure on the industry in the second half of the year. This will help to ease lithium prices.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to demonstrate the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor for an industrial site in North America. X-energy was selected by DOE in 2020 to receive up to $1.2 Earlier post.)

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APRIL 18, 2020

IHS Markit is forecasting that global commercial vehicle production (GVW 4-8) volumes in 2020 compared to 2019 will be down 22% (more than 650,000 units) to 2.6 decline in global real GDP in 2020. Most commercial vehicle factories in mainland China have returned to production. China slowly gaining momentum after shutdown.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

British luxury yacht manufacturer Sunseeker International and Rolls-Royce will present the first yacht fitted with an MTU series-production hybrid propulsion system in 2020. Sunseeker and MTU are presenting the new hybrid propulsion system at Boot Düsseldorf until 27 January.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In its second quarterly update to its Lithium: Outlook to 2030, 17 th Edition report, Roskill maintains the view that future refined lithium supply will remain tight, with a period of sustained supply deficit in the mid-2020s. However, longer term scenarios continue to show strong growth for lithium demand over the coming decade.

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JUNE 3, 2022

SafeAI and Siemens will work with Obayashi Corporation, a Japan-based global leader in construction, to create smarter, safer, more sustainable and productive construction sites. SafeAI and Obayashi originally announced their partnership in October 2020, beginning with a pilot site in Cupertino.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Frost & Sullivan projects that the global Li-ion battery materials market will reach $51.60 billion in 2020 at a 15.6% The advancements in battery chemistries and technologies, upsurge in electric vehicle (EV) sales, evolving regulatory scenario, and increasing consumer preferences toward EVs are expediting market growth worldwide.

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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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AUGUST 25, 2022

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (CE&IG), a part of the Nikkiso Co., Every station will be manufactured to comply with the local content requirements, including the Buy America Act for the US Hydrogen Hub market. This addition provides yet another major manufacturing facility in Southern California.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Roskill expects demand for molybdenum to drop by more than 8% in 2020. The molybdenum market enjoyed three years of growing demand between 2016 and 2018, but macroeconomic concerns and a slower steel market resulted in a 2.3% In the first half of 2020, the Brent crude oil price crashed from US$67.3/bbl bbl in April 2020.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The ICCT study finds that the United States’ share of cumulative global EV production decreased from 20% to 18% since 2010 and only 15% of the approximately $345 billion in global automaker EV investments are flowing to the US. Similarly, European manufacturing accounted for 25% of global EVs through 2020, up from 23% in 2017.

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JUNE 26, 2022

The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. The space industry is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix.

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MARCH 24, 2024

China is the world’s largest automotive market, and understandably so, an important one for electric vehicle (EV) makers like Tesla. market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

The BFS confirms that 10ktpa of AAM production can be achieved via expansion of the existing plant and infrastructure within Syrah’s existing 25-acre industrial site. Syrah intends to initially expand natural graphite AAM production capacity at Vidalia to 10ktpa, and then increase in line with growing market demand.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Preliminary data in EPA’s 2020 Automotive Trends Report shows average fuel economy for model year 2020 light-duty vehicles increased to 25.7 From 2005–2020 average fuel economy rose by 29%. Source: EPA 2020 Automotive Trends Report. miles per gallon (MPG).

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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., a company that designs, manufactures, and sells machine tools, cutting tools, and related products. Nidec has set a target of achieving 35% global market share in the EV traction motor market by 2030.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The German Bioethanol Industry Association (BDBe) has published the 2019 market data for the production and consumption of certified sustainable bioethanol. German bioethanol production, standardized for use as fuel, fell last year to 542,699 tonnes—12.8% less than in the previous year. million tonnes.

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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. Another key characteristic of the niobium market is its highly concentrated supply.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

The USDA ARS and BIOF are cooperating to develop production methods which can be used to increase the productivity of land in Florida formerly used for orange production prior to the devastation of the industry by citrus greening. Citrus greening is one of the world’s most serious citrus plant diseases.

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JUNE 3, 2020

The number of available and announced models of zero-emission trucks, buses and off-road equipment in the United States and Canada is on track to rise nearly 78% by the end of 2020 compared to year-end 2019, according to the Zero-Emission Technology Inventory ( ZETI ), a product of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

one of the leading ammonia marketers in the world, and CF Industries Holdings, Inc., million tons of blue ammonia per year in the near future—about one-third of its annual ammonia production capacity—without affecting the current product mix. Mitsui & Co., CF has said that it could produce approximately 3.5

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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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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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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The data speaks to a major problem for the petroleum industry and oil prices as it recovers from unprecedented demand declines for most of 2020. A persistent rebound in global oil markets requires profitability in transportation products. and 1.1%, respectively. But that won’t happen until demand recovers.

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JULY 1, 2023

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and bp p.l.c. have begun production from the MJ field, following testing and commissioning activities. The MJ field represents the last of three major new deepwater developments the RIL-bp consortium have brought into production in block KG D6 off the east coast of India.

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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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JANUARY 11, 2013

Total lithium-ion transportation battery revenue by region, world markets: 2012-2020. In a new report , Pike Research forecasts that the overall market for Li-ion batteries in light duty transportation will grow from $1.6 billion in 2012 to almost $22 billion in 2020. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

In February 2022, GTI Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) launched the Open Hydrogen Initiative (OHI), a collaboration to further transparency into the environmental impact of hydrogen production and help unlock its full potential as an important driver of energy transitions.

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JUNE 28, 2020

The US Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal announced that GM Defense LLC , a subsidiary of General Motors, has been awarded the production contract to build, field and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). The total production ISV contract award value is $214.3

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JUNE 30, 2016

Electric vehicles (EVs) will need to increase their combined market share to 16% by 2020 for markets to achieve the aggressive fuel economy standards set by regulators, according to new research by the World Energy Council, the UN-accredited global energy body representing the entire energy spectrum. In the EU, the EV gap is 1.4

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APRIL 6, 2020

Rodgers and York Capital), and non-dilutive funding from market-leading customers. Enovix replaces electrode winding in a standard pouch lithium-ion battery production process with proprietary laser patterning and high-speed stacking tools to increase line MWh capacity by 30%. Enovix expects to supply the EV market within 5 years.

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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. Alexander Knafl, Head of R&D, Four-Stroke Engineering, MAN Energy Solutions.

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