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Minerals used in electric cars: How much does the US import and from where?

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Gabon, South Africa, Australia, Georgia. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Major import sources. Natural graphite. China, Mexico, Canada, India. Chile, Canada, Mexico. Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia.

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South Africa Revitalizes Efforts on Automotive Li-ion Batteries

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South Africa is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country. This centre is headed up by Dr Mkhulu Mathe, who earned his chemistry PhD at Georgia University, in the US.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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She developed the geeRemit app to let people in the United States send money to people in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, she is a visiting scholar at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , in Greensboro. A small portion of the fee can be donated to a charitable organization or deposited into a financial account.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. University of California, Santa Cruz. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit,

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand. Zielinski, S. 2010) Connecting (and transforming) the future of transportation: a brief and practical primer for implementing sustainable door-to-door transportation systems in communities and regions.

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