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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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The goal is to develop high-energy, durable lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles by improving the cycle life of the battery electrodes. Photo-electrochemically rechargeable zinc-air batteries. Investigators: Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering; Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering. Investigator: Hongjie Dai, Chemistry.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain

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For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Umicore takes a fourfold approach to minimizing the emissions embedded in its materials. Second, the use of renewable electricity.

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How Umicore is ensuring sustainability in the North American EV battery chain – Charged EVs

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For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Umicore takes a fourfold approach to minimizing the emissions embedded in its materials. Second, the use of renewable electricity.

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Utilities Are Taking an EV-industry Leadership Role

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Utilities are emerging as dominant players in the global race to electric vehicle adoption beyond just the power supplier. They have insights to the customers’ electrical usage. In fact, EDF is targeting a 30 percent market share for EV charging in France, Belgium, Italy, and the UK. California as the EV Leader.

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UN report highlights urgent need to tackle impact of EV battery production boom

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Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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