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Battery recycling shatters the myth of EV waste – ET Auto

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That payback figure, however, assumes that every EV is made with newly mined lithium, nickel and cobalt – as if all the materials will end up in a landfill at the end of a vehicle’s life. Making a battery for an electric vehicle typically requires mining hundreds of pounds of hard-to-extract minerals.

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Battery recycling shatters the myth of EV waste – ET Auto

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Making a battery for an electric vehicle typically requires mining hundreds of pounds of hard-to-extract minerals. That payback figure, however, assumes that every EV is made with newly mined lithium , nickel and cobalt – as if all the materials will end up in a landfill at the end of a vehicle’s life.

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New Mercedes-Benz S-Class PHEV produces 14.1-36.2% lower CO2 emissions that predecessor

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It offers tTwice the electric range at 100 kilometers, 110 rather than 90 kW of electric power and a level luggage compartment with through-loading facility. This feeds self-generated green electricity to the production shop. The S 580 e has a combined fuel consumption, weighted of 1.0-0.6 kWh/100 km.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle.

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BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

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In the supply chain of a mid-sized fully-electric vehicle around a quarter of the CO 2 emissions are attributable to aluminum. The innovative method uses carbon-free anodes to eliminate all process-related CO 2 emissions and was successfully tested at industrial level for the first time in 2021.

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. The particularly high geothermal energy means that the Earth’s heat can be converted to electricity cost-effectively and virtually CO 2 neutrally. This uses a specially developed adsorbent to bind the CO 2 in the air.

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Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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Back then, these compounds would have needed to be converted into the carbohydrates on which all life depends. The ultimate aim would be to capture wasted CO 2 using renewable hydrogen gas from biohydrogen—as in this research—or electrolysis powered by renewable electricity, and convert it to formic acid.

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