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Rock Tech Lithium to build Europe’s first lithium converter in Germany

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Rock Tech Lithium intends to build Europe’s first lithium converter—a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide—in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. The converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024. Location at the industrial site Guben South (CNW Group/Rock Tech Lithium Inc.).

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BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers

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BT Group, Britain’s largest telecom service provider, has stepped forward with an idea that could ensure EVs are virtually always within range of a charger. BT Group says more cabinets in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be repurposed in the coming months—as many as 600 such conversions by the end of 2024.

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SSAB produces first fossil-free steel and delivers it to Volvo Group; HYBRIT technology

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The steel is now being delivered to the first customer, the Volvo Group. In May, HYBRIT began construction of a hydrogen unit on a pilot scale in connection with the pilot plant for direct reduction in Luleå. We’ll be converting to electric arc furnace in Oxelösund as early as 2025.

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First cell coating line for battery modules goes on stream at BMW Group Plant Leipzig

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BMW Group Plant Leipzig’s first cell coating line has gone into series operation as e-component production at the site continues to gain momentum. Straight afterwards the space was converted for e-component manufacturing in less than six months, and associates underwent the relevant training. The processes are highly automated.

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Motherson Group collaborating with UBQ to bring carbon-negative thermoplastics into auto parts

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Global automotive Tier 1 manufacturer Motherson Group is collaborating with Israeli cleantech company UBQ Materials. The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. Polymers typically emit 1.9

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

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Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050.

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Volvo collaborates with Utility Innovation Group and Portable Electric to launch off-grid chargers – Charged EVs

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Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) and Volvo Penta have launched two new charging units in the North American market in collaboration with Utility Innovation Group (UIG) and Portable Electric. The unit can support three or four mid-size machines like the Volvo EC230 Electric excavator through twin CCS1 connections.

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