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IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

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IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. Although steep, the 50% growth is half that experienced in 2019 from the year before.) 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data. Source: ACEM, IDTechEx.

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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

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BNEF projects that it will be made possible by further sharp declines in the cost of lithium-ion batteries, on top of an 85% reduction in the 2010-18 period. In the near term, renewables-plus-storage, especially solar-plus-storage, has become a major driver for battery build. —Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. If the batteries were 30-40% cheaper, that would reduce the costs of EV’s.

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Mad Power thoughts

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It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer. Frack, baby Frack.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. But that was an unusual year. million people.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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Drew Baglino noted that there’s no large-scale cathode refining facility in the US for now, so Tesla had to build one. This means that the total cost of ownership of the next-generation platform would also be lower than the company’s current vehicles today. 17:56 CST – Kirkhorn notes that cost reductions come from everywhere.

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