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Daimler Truck and TotalEnergies partner to develop hydrogen ecosystem for transportation in Europe

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In particular, TotalEnergies has the ambition by 2030 to operate directly or indirectly up to 150 hydrogen refueling stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The truck manufacturer will support its customers to ensure easy operability and highly competitive uptime.

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Global Bioenergies successfully moves its C3 process to demo scale; isopropanol and acetone from renewable resources

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Global Bioenergies has reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. The C3 process, which enables the production of renewable isopropanol and acetone, is the second process reaching demo plant scale in Global Bioenergies’ portfolio. Earlier post.)

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BNEF forecasts EVs to be 35% of global new car sales by 2040; cost of ownership below conventional-fuel vehicles by 2025

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This would be equivalent to nearly 8% of global electricity demand in 2015. Lithium-ion battery costs have already dropped by 65% since 2010, reaching $350 per kWh last year. At the core of this forecast is the work we have done on EV battery prices. Although some 1.3

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JRC: e-vehicle market in Europe is slowly gaining momentum, but breakthrough is needed

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The highest numbers were registered in Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, France and the UK. A European Commission study from 2017 estimated the global electric bus stock to count 173,000 buses, with 98% of the global stock being situated in China. Market share of M1 EV in Europe between 2010 and 2017.

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China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover

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Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute , EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway. degrees C (2.7 degrees F).” Who’s aiming to achieve what by decade’s end?

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Alstom and MOL to explore use of hydrogen technologies for rail transport in Hungary

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The Coradia iLint trains have run more than 200,000 km with zero CO 2 emission in passenger service in Germany and Austria and has been successfully tested in the Netherlands. Alstom is a pioneer of hydrogen technology, having introduced the Coradia iLint to the German market in September 2018 ( earlier post ).

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EIA: US ammonia prices rise in response to higher international natural gas prices; up by a factor of 6 in two years

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Because the global ammonia market is highly interconnected, the US price of ammonia closely follows international ammonia prices rather than only US natural gas prices. Generally, prices of commodity chemicals (ammonia) closely correlate with prices of feedstock (natural gas). per million British thermal units (MMBtu) and $4.00/MMBtu,

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