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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

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Optimizing the battery’s life cycle is a crucial issue for the development of the sector and limiting its impact on the environment. In this case, the battery makes it possible to integrate electricity from solar or wind power, on the scale of an individual house, a building, a recharging station or an industrial site, for example.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Johnson-Matthey (Cleveland, United Kingdom).

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The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

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Not so fast, exclaim researchers at Stanford University, who state that charging EVs during the day is actually cheaper, better for the grid, and healthier for the environment. Going to scale means not only manufacturing millions of EVs per year but supporting them from recharging to repair.

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Mitsubishi to begin offering customers test drives of North American spec i-MiEV in November

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Mitsubishi is positioning the North American i-MiEV electric vehicle as the most affordably-priced mass-produced EV available in the US. By the end of that year, the EU version of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV was launched in Germany, followed by the United Kingdom at the beginning of 2011. Mitsubishi i-MiEV, North American-Spec.

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