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China’s EV market hits its stride with 1-in-3 sales being electrified

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It seems as though the appetite for electric vehicles in China has been uninhibited despite many roadblocks , which include COVID lockdown measures in the country , supply chain shortages, and even a Chinese government-imposed license plate lottery system that limits how many license plates are issued every year.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

Green Car Congress

The report “Decarbonizing Steel: A Net-Zero Pathway” outlines the path to making profitable, low-emissions steel and describes how a combination of falling hydrogen costs, cheap clean power, and increased recycling could reduce emissions to net zero, even while total output increases. Today’s new plants are tomorrow’s retrofits.

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Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

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Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers. Endesa will host a full demonstration of the market-ready and low cost system in Madrid on 12 March. We believe this innovation represents a significant development for Nissan Leaf and e-NV200 customers.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.) And oil only seems cheap. While we’re fixing vehicles, we can also equip them with low-cost real-time MPG indicators that show us how to save money and still get to places quickly. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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New metal-free ORR catalyst outperforms platinum in fuel cell

Green Car Congress

The finding, detailed in an open access paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports , is a step toward eliminating what industry regards as the largest obstacle to large-scale commercialization of fuel cell technology—the high cost and insufficient supply of platinum catalysts. —Jeon et al.

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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 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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