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India directs Coal India to invest in EVs & charging pods

Electric Vehicles India

India directs Coal India to invest in EVs & charging pods. In its many initiatives, the latest initiative the government’s Coal Ministry has asked state-run Coal India to diversify its interests to areas such as electric vehicles and charging stations. Read the complete article about India directs Coal India. .

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Indonesia’s Antam to start building new nickel smelter, HPAL plant in 2025 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The projects are part of Antam’s deal with CBL to develop an “ecosystem” to produce materials used in batteries for electric vehicles (EV), and part of Indonesia’s bigger ambition to set up itself as a production hub for EVs. Most nickel processing facilities in Indonesia are currently powered by coal.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and one of the world’s highest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. “It has implications for us.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

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As the longer-term demand outlook for old stalwarts iron ore and coal has dimmed, an explosive new demand story for materials ranging from copper to lithium presented an opportunity for growth as governments and manufacturers around the world rushed to secure future supplies.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.