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JANUARY 25, 2023

CIIC skateboard chassis integrates battery packs, electric motors, and other critical units into a single layer at the bottom of the vehicle, lowering purchasing cost, vehicle weight and energy consumption while maximizing cabin space for optimal driving experiences. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) In 2021, CATL also broke ground on a $2.1B

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The German government is topping up the funding for private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings by a further €300 million (US$349 million). If the total costs of the project fall below the grant amount, no funding will be granted. The grant is a flat rate of €900 per charging point.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

In a new piece of research, BloombergNEF (BNEF) finds that the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH 2 ) made from renewable electricity is set to fall faster than it previously estimated. These costs are 13% lower than BNEF’s previous 2030 forecast and 17% lower than its old 2050 forecast. MMBtu) by 2050 in most modeled markets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2023

Bollinger Motors has begun building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric Class 4 chassis cabs for testing and demonstration. The Bollinger B4 will be eligible nationwide for a federal purchasing incentive of 30% of the cost of the vehicle, up to a total $40,000, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2023

SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. Precursors are key raw materials that account for more than 65% to 70% of the cost of cathode materials.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

Canda-based Lion Electric, a manufacturer of all-electric trucks and buses, is building a battery manufacturing plant and innovation center in Québec. The factory is planned to begin operations in early 2023 and will produce battery packs and modules made from Lithium-ion cells.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

million in Series A funds to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles that move freight. The funds will be used to build a fleet of rail vehicles, execute advanced testing programs and grow the team. Less energy means smaller batteries, less strain on the grid, and lower charging infrastructure costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. Building these fueling stations is a solid future investment for UPS. Four were announced in April, and all should be operational by the end of 2014. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. The competitiveness of the Eramet DLE process ranks it in the first quartile of the cash cost curve of the lithium industry (cash cost of c.$3,500/t

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The first phase is planned to build a designed production capacity of 25GWh and an investment of 12 billion yuan (US$1.9 The latest announced investments come on top of plans CATL unveiled last year to increase capacity at a cost of up to 65 billion yuan (US$10 billion).

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Building Battery Batteries Production 305

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The joint venture will process Cathode Active Material (CAM), a key battery material that represents about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. Our work with POSCO Chemical is a key part of our strategy to rapidly scale US EV production and drive innovation in battery performance, quality and cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Funded by a $2-million grant from the US Department of Energy, a team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led by Eric Masanet is building a sophisticated cost model for fuel cells that will will take into account the total cost of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. The issue of the relative costs of moving these products by rail and pipelines extends to those products as well.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Source: Lux Research. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2022

Demand for clean energy technologies such as solar panels, heat pumps, and electrolyzers for hydrogen has increased significantly as the costs of these technologies have plummeted over the last decade. To reduce the amount of energy needed in our buildings, heat pumps are an important solution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The e-TRIEVER builds upon the T-Series’ foundation while continuing Orange EV’s commitment to innovation and delivering trucks that meet the demanding needs of heavy-duty, goods movement operations. The e-TRIEVER builds on this platform, while adding next-generation technology. million hours of operation. million hours of operation.

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MARCH 2, 2021

a supplier of hydrogen fuel cell powered heavy vehicles ( earlier post ), plans to build the largest fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production line for commercial vehicles in the United States at its new Hyzon Innovation Center located in Bolingbrook, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“We will continue to push for Congress to pass a Build Back Better Act that reflects President Biden’s vision for an electrified transportation system by lowering the cost of EVs and building robust EV infrastructure. You can tell Congress to act too by going to REALevchange.org.”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2022

In addition, rising lithium carbonate prices are adding to the costs of LFP batteries. Last month Gotion High-Tech agreed to supply a large listed and unnamed US automaker with 200 GWh of LFP batteries between 2023 and 2028 in an indication of the auto industry’s reliance on Chinese production.

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Global Battery Batteries Building 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The cost of the initial project is expected to fit within the company’s annual capital expenditure budget, which has ranged from $400-$450 million per year. The company will install an electrolysis system at Donaldsonville to generate carbon-free hydrogen from water that will then be supplied to an existing plant to produce green ammonia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

President Obama today announced nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. Under the ESPC program, new energy efficient equipment is installed at Federal facilities at no up-front cost to the government. But we can’t wait for Congress to act.

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Obama Building Energy BBC 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. This analysis indicates that energy storage could provide some grid flexibility but its build up will require decades. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2018

The goal of the partnership, led by startup C4-MCP (C4), is to offset the hydrogen production expense with the sales of the carbon fiber and carbon nanotubes, reducing the hydrogen’s net cost to less than $2 per kilogram, thus helping make hydrogen fueled cars and trucks cost-competitive with conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

To clarify regional costs, the report breaks down the costs of smog, soot and climate pollution caused by passenger vehicles in each of the 10 ZEV states. As of 2015, those costs are: California: $15 billion. New York: $7.9 New Jersey: $4.6 Maryland: $2.6 Connecticut: $1.4 Oregon: $1.3 Maine: $513 million.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Vega Biofuels announced that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and patent-pending process that significantly reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock for the company’s Allendale, SC pilot torrefaction plant by using site remediation biomass.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

RSBN is building an open, industry-wide blockchain platform to trace responsibly produced minerals from source through to end product, with RCS Global assessing each participating entity against responsible sourcing requirements set by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and industry bodies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

a carbon science company engaged in the design and build of energy storage carbon materials, and a battery manufacturing partner will build a high-powered full-scale lithium-ion battery with recycled/upcycled material from an electric car power pack and upcycled anode material from Saint Jean Carbon. Saint Jean Carbon Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bi-directional charging technology means not only charging the Nissan LEAF, but also sending energy stored in the vehicle battery back to the building or the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Occupying 30 acres at the U-M’s North Campus Research Complex, the novel test environment will include approximately three lane-miles of roads with intersections, traffic signs and signals, sidewalks, benches, simulated buildings, street lights and obstacles such as construction barriers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Costs of manufacturing batteries and electric powertrains can be halved by 2018, if the gaps in the innovation chain can be closed, according to researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). KIT plans to build a close-to-industry “research factory” on its premises.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants. The cost of the project, estimated at US $1.9 This is why utility companies are not embracing transmission expansion.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. This reduces the cost of conditioning fresh air and is a major factor in the outstanding energy efficiency of the spray booth.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

HollyFrontier said the investment will provide the opportunity to meet the demand for low-carbon fuels while covering the cost of its annual RIN purchase obligation under current market conditions. The RDU will be funded with cash on hand and is expected to generate an internal rate of return between 20% and 30%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

optioned a PNNL-developed method for building titanium oxide and carbon structures that greatly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. The optioned technology reduces the cost of manufacturing the fuel cells by up to one-third without decreasing overall performance, and improves stability and life of the fuel cell.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

This latest effort builds on a team project studying the effects of system contaminants on fuel cells that NREL and GM have been part of since 2009. Fuel Cells Hydrogen'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

Ford and State Farm are working together to improve the safety and overall cost of vehicle ownership by better matching price to risk. The exchange of information lowered the overall cost of vehicle ownership for many of the companies’ shared customers by better matching price to risk.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Michelin and Siemens, in cooperation with research partners at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, are launching a project to demonstrate that the total cost of electric vehicles can be less than that of a conventional combustion-engined car.

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