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Mercedes-Benz announces strategic partnership and equity stake in Chinese battery cell manufacturer Farasis

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Current contracts with Farasis have been supplemented and include, in addition to technical and commercial contractual components, expanded legal and sustainability requirements. Mercedes-Benz and Farasis had already agreed on a sustainability partnership in the summer of 2019.

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AutoCanada resolves $250M lawsuit towards former CEO Patrick Priestner

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and the corporate’s founder and previous CEO Patrick Priestner have settled a yearslong prison fight, with neither celebration admitting wrongdoing or legal responsibility. 8, the 2 firms introduced they’d assuredly to unravel the 2019 swimsuit towards Priestner. AutoCanada Inc. In a joint commentary Sept.

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Provisional agreement reached on European CO2 standards for heavy-duty trucks; 30% lower by 2030

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Under the agreement, emissions from new trucks will have to be 15% lower by 2025 and 30% lower in 2030 compared to 2019 emissions. With the first-ever EU emission standards for trucks agreed, we are completing the legal framework to reach the European target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030.

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Eliminate fuel vehicles in the UK to enlarge the move

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Business Secretary Ed Miliband said: “The government needs to step up help for low and middle income earners to buy electric cars and accelerate the rollout of charging points in areas currently left out to ensure everyone benefits from the transition and Make the green transition fair.” Carbon reduction acceleration.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Like many universities of the day, it did not concern itself with intellectual property, believing such matters to be confined to the commercial world. Here, the story of the lithium-ion battery’s journey to commercialization gets hazy.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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He has been loyal to this brand since 2014, when it became the first commercial EV introduced on the Virgin Islands by Nissan Saint Thomas USVI , also known as Drive Electric VI. People feel more comfortable buying a car they know can be serviced and repaired.” “The The LEAF is very versatile, too,” added White. “I

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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IBM's large commercial customers faced the implications of this emerging technology: Who would maintain the equipment and its software? Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. Tom Munnecke/Getty Images.

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