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EV Metals Group launches the Australian Lithium Alliance

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EVM is building a global battery chemicals and technology business with the development of the world’s first integrated Battery Chemicals Complex (BCC) at Yanbu Industrial City in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Agreement with ZNC is an exemplary working model. —Michael Naylor, Managing Director of EVM.

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ZF and MKR Technology develop hybrid drive for the Dakar Rally

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The core of this driveline is a special prototype of ZF’s central electric axle drive, reconfigured in terms of its hardware and software to make it fit for a rally. The 13,000 rpm asynchronous electric motor had to be adjusted to the 2,700 rpm that the 1,000 HP diesel engine produces at the transmission output.

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Elektromotive to make breakthrough in Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia is probably the last place you’d expect to see a concerted shift towards emission free motoring - after all, the Kingdom is the world’s leading oil producer and exporter. Understandably, Elektromotive’s managing director Calvey Taylor-Haw is excited about the deal.

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Fisker reports more than $100M in revenue Jan-Apr 2012; more than $1B in funding since 2007

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The EVer (Electric Vehicle extended range) powertrain of the Fisker Karma. The company, which began deliveries of the Fisker Karma luxury four-door extended range electric sedan in December 2011, also said that it has delivered 1,000 vehicles to customers in the US and Europe. Click to enlarge.

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Energizing America

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As a practical matter that means enriching with wealth transfers those who are the principal financiers of Islamofascist terror — notably, Saudi Arabia and Iran. clip ) Existing technology allows one other form of energy to serve as a transportation fuel: electricity. For more on this coalition, see [link] /.)

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

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billion in new investment cash, and 65-percent owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, saw its stock surge up to 47 percent on news of the first deliveries. The result is class-best mileage of 131 mpge, or the electric equivalent of one gallon of gasoline. The now-public company, flush with $4.5 But engineers expect a 0.21

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Argonne researchers advancing new class of selenium sulfide composite cathodes that could boost Li-ion energy density 5x

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New composite materials based on selenium (Se) sulfides used as the cathode in a rechargeable lithium-ion battery could increase Li-ion density five times, according to research carried out at the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. The capacity faded a little for all three cells tested.

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