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

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Although steep, the 50% growth is half that experienced in 2019 from the year before.) Besides the low cost of ownership, electric motorcycles improve the riding experience, taking away the noise, fumes, vibration, shifting, and clutching from the user experience, alongside the environmental benefits of low emissions.

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Australia’s cheapest electric car? Tiny EK X EV imported by Mitsubishi to test demand

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Now that it’s here in the country the tiny eK X will be used both in customer clinics and dealers that will feedback their impressions of the prospect of a cheap EV that will be priced from around $30,000. Back in 2013 it launched the MiEV electric car but that car was quietly withdrawn just three years later.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China. This is due to the DRC’s proximity to cathode raw materials and heavy reliance on hydroelectric power plants. Adesina.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub. The bathtub is cheap for us, so when it comes to how much we can store, we can increase that capacity quite cheaply,” says Michael Simpson , the cofounder of Cheesecake Energy. They also consume 75 percent of all electricity used. But the space is still young.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. States ring-fence their industries and zero-sum logic returns—one country’s gain means another’s loss.

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SpaceX wins launch contracts for three more Launcher space tugs

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Announced in the summer of 2019, SpaceX’s Smallsat Rideshare Program has offered one of the easiest and most affordable tickets to space for two and a half years. To anyone unfamiliar with the cost of spaceflight, that might seem obscene, but it’s extraordinarily affordable and far cheaper than every advertised alternative.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas.

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