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BMW Group invests in Jetti Resources; catalytic leaching process for copper extraction from unexploited ores

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Through its venture capital fund BMW i Ventures, the BMW Group has taken a stake in Colorado-based Jetti Resources. Founded in 2014, Jetti Resources has developed a pioneering process for copper extraction that utilizes previously unused ore from existing copper mines. 2022.118111.

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BMW Group makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction

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The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. The principle of continuous improvement will remain at the heart of the strategy to reduce CO 2 emissions and increase resource efficiency. Product strategy: fully-electric models in high-volume series.

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DOE: Light-Duty PEVs in US traveled 19B miles on electricity in 2021; less than 1% of total VMT

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EV miles driven increased by 57% from 2020 to 2021, while electric miles driven in PHEVs increased by 24%. million of these all fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEV), and 800,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). More than 2.1

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BMW Group investing €800M in Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico for NEUE KLASSE and battery assembly

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The BMW Group is investing €800 million in Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico for integration of fully-electric models of NEUE KLASSE and construction of local high-voltage battery assembly. More than 500 additional employees will work there, producing next-generation batteries for fully-electric vehicles.

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Hitachi leading European project on cooperative connected infrastructure for fully electric vehicles

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Laboratory (ICTL), will a project funded by the European Commission aimed at developing an integrated IT electric mobility platform that enables the connection and information exchanges between multiple infrastructure systems—such as road IT infrastructure, Electric Vehicle (EV) backend infrastructure and EV charging.

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BYD to supply 20 electric school buses to AVSTA

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This agreement puts the community on the road to being the nation’s first region with fully electric transit and school buses. BYD School buses are eligible for federal and state purchase incentives offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

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Start of production for Audi Q4 e-tron in Zwickau

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The fully electric compact model is the first electric SUV to be produced by Audi in Germany. The Q4 e-tron features a Volkswagen-made modular electric drive matrix (MEB), a highly versatile and variable platform that is suitable for numerous fully electric models and offers considerable scope for leveraging synergies.

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