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Honeywell introduces UOP eFining methanol-to-jet technology; HIF Global to deploy at eSAF plant in US

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HIF Global, the world’s leading eFuels company, intends to deploy the new technology to produce eSAF at its second US eFuels facility— its first eSAF facility in the US. HIF Global is the first customer to sign a commercial agreement for the production of eSAF using Honeywell UOP eFining. —Renato Pereira, CEO of HIF USA

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USA Rare Earth acquires US rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing capability from Hitachi; mine-to-magnet

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USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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As Chip Shortage Winds Down, Bosch Charts New Path For Green Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

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CleanTechnica suited up to visit the clean room at Bosch's chip factory in Reutlingen, Germany to get the inside scoop on the chip shortage, and its solutions.

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Roskill forecasts demand for neodymium for magnets to result in supply deficit; substitutions by 2021

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Technologies already in use in this industry as an alternative to permanent magnet motors include induction motors in NEVs and induction/synchronous generators in wind turbines. Between 2016 and 2021, global NdFeB magnet production is forecast to grow by 4-5%/year. Global NEV production could rise by 3.5-4.0

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BMW Group enters long-term €2B supply contract with Northvolt for battery cells from Europe

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Northvolt will obtain 100% of the energy needed to produce the battery cells regionally in northern Sweden and exclusively from wind and hydroelectric power. The BMW Group produces batteries in-house at its plants in Dingolfing (Germany), Spartanburg (USA) and at the BBA plant in Shenyang (China).

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Mercedes brings five new EVs to IAA Mobility

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The magnets—and thus the rotor—follow the rotating alternating current field in the stator windings. For AC and DC charging, the EQB is equipped as standard in Europe and the USA with a CCS (Combined Charging Systems) connector in the right-hand side panel. The charging time is then 32 minutes from 10-80% SoC.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. mpg by 2016.

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