CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anglo American is committed to carbon neutral mines by 2040 and is already using a prototype truck at its Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa. Aurizon and Anglo American are working together to do just that. Aurizon is working towards carbon neutrality by 2050 […].

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JUNE 1, 2023

The EU is heavily dependent on imports of these metals because extraction is concentrated in a few countries such as China, South Africa and Brazil. The increasing dependence on them is thus problematic for several reasons.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

The study excluded the transport of reagents for comparative purposes; as such, Scope 3 and total GWP figures for the CMP are slightly lower in this study than those detailed in an LCA Study conducted earlier this year. per kg of metal when compared against the Nickel Institute LCA and Cobalt Institute LCA.

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MARCH 25, 2020

The open-access study was published in AGU Advances, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. NASA Earth Observatory. C, or 1.8 ?F, F, since the late 1800s.).

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APRIL 1, 2019

A study by a team of researchers from Germany and South Africa forsees the gradual replacement of lead-acid SLI (starter, lighting and ignition) batteries with Li-ion batteries over the next couple of years.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

earlier post ) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with ACIA Aero Leasing (ACIA), a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, France, Canada, Mauritius, and South Africa. Universal Hydrogen Co.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Aurizon , Australia’s largest rail freight operator, and leading global mining company Anglo American will work together on a feasibility study to assess the introduction of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

Inspired by the high-speed maneuvering of cheetahs, roboticists at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa , have started experimenting with the old-school sibling of hydraulic actuators—pneumatics. University of Cape Town, South Africa With a boom for support, the 7-kilogram Kemba is able to repeatedly jump to 0.5

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The power units will be designed and built at WAE, in Grove, Oxfordshire, and integrated into an existing mining haul truck, with testing taking place later this year at the Mogalakwena platinum group metals mining operation in South Africa, Anglo American’s flagship PGMs mine.

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AUGUST 13, 2011

South Africa state-owned power utility Eskom reports that a design study is currently under way for an underground coal gasification (UCG) demonstration plant, which will include a 250,000 Nm 3 /h gas production plant and a 100 MW to 140 MW gas turbine plant. Mining Weekly. The coal seam lies between 280 m and 300 m deep.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A study by Ricardo Strategic Consulting has concluded that while sluggish automotive demand in Europe, Japan and North America will be balanced by the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets through 2020, thereafter the ‘Rising-15’ nations become the engine for profitable growth—assuming political stability. Click to enlarge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 6, 2021

Cape Town-based Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS), one of South Africa’s large mass transit intra-city bus service companies, is currently running a pilot study for electric buses on its routes. Its […].

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AUGUST 22, 2009

Anger, frustration, greed, lack of trust are a few of the many sentiments expressed by consumers and future car buyers globally, according to a recent “Tipping Point” study by Synovate Motoresearch, the automotive division of global market research company Synovate. However, consumers across the 16 countries fell into three distinct groups.

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JULY 2, 2022

South Africa-based mining and metals group Sibanye-Stillwater acquired an initial 30.29% shareholding in Keliber Oy as announced on 23 February 2021, by way of a phased equity investment. Keliber has completed a definitive feasibility study (DFS) which has confirmed the quality and inherent value of the Keliber project.

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JULY 6, 2020

In an open-access study in the EGU journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , an international team of researchers reports that the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) is rapidly accumulating in the atmosphere, driven by the demand for SF 6 -insulated switchgear in developing countries. Simmonds et al.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

South Africa-based Sibanye-Stillwater will establish. The Rhyolite Ridge Definitive Feasibility Study , completed in April 2020, supports (100% project basis): 22 ktpa lithium hydroxide and 174 ktpa boric acid average production; 26-year mine life underpinned by 0.6 mt lithium carbonate and 5.3 mt lithium carbonate and 11.9

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

South African energy and chemicals group Sasol today announced that it has chosen the southwestern region of the State of Louisiana as the site for a planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility. Sasol will embark on a feasibility study to evaluate the viability of a GTL venture in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, over the next 18 months.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. Extensive market research studies conducted by Mercedes-Benz with potential customers in the target markets bear this out. The key markets are Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and South Africa. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. In their study, they found that blending 8.75 Click to enlarge.

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MAY 5, 2014

The study shows that Americans face the risk of a 70% increase in unhealthy summertime ozone levels by 2050, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions with resultant significant warming (IPCC Scenario A2 and RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) 8.5.). The new study was among the first conducted on the new 1.5-petaflop

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Minister Ramesh was a key climate leader in the Cancun talks last December, helping broker an outcome that moved the multilateral process forward to the next meeting of the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa later this year.

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Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2021

The Model X claimed notable areas like Elon Musk’s home country of South Africa and other regions like Egypt, Kazakhstan, Guyana, and Nambia. The evidence from this study suggests that Tesla’s approach to advertising has been a key factor in the company’s success.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

A 2015 Boeing-sponsored study by UBC found that aviation biofuel made from forest waste could meet 10 percent—about 46 million gallons, or 175 million liters—of British Columbia’s annual jet fuel demand. —Julie Felgar, managing director of Environmental Strategy & Integration, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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APRIL 6, 2011

A new EIA-sponsored study by Advanced Resources International, Inc. Adding the estimated US shale gas technically recoverable resources (862 Tcf) to the assessments in the study gives a total of 6,622 Tcf. Some shale basins in the countries studied. These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

The study, by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, found that a minimum of $13.8 The results of our study make a strong case for including the BRIMCS governments in any global discussion around energy technology innovation and cooperation.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The study uses five different recognized methods for measuring the daily or seasonally highest ozone levels. Fleming and Ruth Doherty of the University of Edinburgh were co-lead authors on the study, with co-authors from 12 international institutions. These metrics show similar patterns and highlight the different assessment methods.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Rutgers will focus on replacing environmentally harmful fossil fuels with renewable, economically sustainable fuels in collaboration with universities in the US, Brazil, China and South Africa. Strengthening graduate study in science, technology, engineering, math. The grant is valued at up to $3.2 million over five years. “

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 6, 2023

An excellent case study published by GreenCape and partners gives us an exciting look at Golden Arrow Bus Services’ recent electric bus pilot program in the City of Cape Town. We are seeing more electric buses being adopted in a lot of cities around the world. It’s always good to get local insights from bus […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A recent case study by the City of Cape Town’s transport department, in collaboration with GreenCape, gives some very valuable insights into some of these operations and how they can be electrified. Municipalities are known to operate large fleets to keep their operations going in several areas.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

(MHI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd ( PBMR Pty ) of the Republic of South Africa to study the area of collaboration in the development of the helium-cooled, High Temperature Reactor (HTR) Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR).

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JULY 15, 2016

In 2015, farms in Limpopo Province of South Africa, from which the biofuel for the flights was sourced, achieved certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), one of the strongest sustainability standards in the world. The goal is to scale-up over the next several years to gain additional biofuel capacity.

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JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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APRIL 15, 2009

to start a feasibility study on an indirect (Fischer-Tropsch-based) coal-to-liquids project. Shenhua has also signed an agreement with Sasol from South Africa to study a coal-to-liquids project in Ningxia. In 2006, Shell signed an agreement with Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

On the international front, the study covers 39 countries and narrows down its focus to 10 major export markets, identifying over USD 35 billion worth of export opportunities. The combined export potential to these ten markets is expected to grow to over USD 35 billion by 2028.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Malaysia-based Petronas has signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Uzbekistan’s national oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz (UNG) and Sasol Ltd of South Africa, making further progress on the development and implementation of a proposed Uzbek gas-to-liquids (GTL) project.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

The NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) reports that developing countries, led by China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Saudi Arabia, have blocked what would have been the first global agreement to cut carbon emissions from ships.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

The report reviewed more than 300 studies on health outcomes from different types of land transport systems in a “scoping exercise” designed to identify those mitigation measures most closely associated with specific health co-benefits or risks.

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