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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Earth Day is now a global event each year, and over a billion people across 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. ‘Environment’ was a word that appeared more often in spelling contests than on the evening news. In India too, demand for EVs is accelerating.

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Mercedes breaks ground on new battery recycling facility in Germany

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.'” Mercedes also specifies that the new facility will be 100% carbon neutral as part of the German automaker’s continuing efforts to decarbonize its production facilities in the coming years. Tesla has already announced that it would make recycled materials a bigger part of its production with the help of Redwood materials.

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Sharing Insights for a Better Future – Hubject ICNC 2022 Berlin

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Hosted by Hubject, this year’s tenth edition of the conference attracted more than 2,000 attendees, and truly was a wonderful celebration that reflected our industry’s mission of climate protection and environmental awareness. Feeling proud to be Part of Thriving EV Charging Community. The EV Charging Industry – Key Take-aways.

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BASF intensifying R & D of products for sustainable electromobility; triple-digit million euro investment in batteries over next 5 years

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Part of the investment is going to the construction of a new cathode materials plant in Elyria, Ohio. With our research activities we are substantially contributing to making electric cars affordable, environment friendly and sustainable. Earlier post.). This also increases the car’s driving range. —Andreas Kreimeyer.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

I wanted to be part of EPN and I gave her my membership fee on the spot. We covered: global warming, nuclear power, clean air, smart growth, globalization and the environment. And on globalization we actually had a union person speak. Number two, we’ve made a terrible mess of the environment there.

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Study finds that switch to heavy and synthetic crude oils could double or triple refinery emissions

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gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere annually from fuel combustion to process the oil, according to a new study by Greg Karras at Communities for a Better Environment ( CBE ), published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. This would increase total petroleum fuel cycle emissions by 14-33%. —Karras 2010.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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