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thyssenkrupp nucera to deliver electrolyzers for Air Products’ hydrogen facility in Arizona; 2nd joint project under strategic partnership

Green Car Congress

Air Products has awarded thyssenkrupp nucera a contract for the supply of alkaline water electrolysis technology for a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. Under this contract, thyssenkrupp nucera will deliver two of their large-scale alkaline water electrolysis standard modules.

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

Green Car Congress

The new study used tree-ring data and other climate records to identify a drought period unmatched in severity by the current drought or other ancient droughts. The new knowledge for how much worse droughts can be, even without anthropogenic climate forcing, points to a potentially grim outlook for water in the West.

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Twin Rivers (CA) Unified School District receives 10 additional LionC electric school buses

Green Car Congress

The 10 LionC buses are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The buses each have a range of 125 miles and will eliminate on average 230 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

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Volkswagen starts operation of $22M North American Battery Engineering Lab in Chattanooga

Green Car Congress

Working on-site or remote via cloud access, a new team of 30 engineers will focus on various climatic, mechanical, electrical, and corrosion tests of battery cells and battery packs. They can replicate every climatic environment in the world and scale between extreme settings well beyond what a typical customer would put a vehicle through.

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USTMA report finds that recycling of end-of-life tires dropped from 96% in 2013 to 76% in 2019

Green Car Congress

The report found that 56 million scrap tires remain in stockpiles, mostly in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia and Washington, half of which—New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia—do not have active stockpile cleanup programs.

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Independent Tests Show Nissan Leaf Electric Cars Lost Range In Hot Climates

Green Car Reports

That’s been the question on the lips of Nissan Leaf owners worldwide after some owners in Phoenix, Arizona, began reporting that their cars had lost capacity bars. Have Nissan Leafs in hot states suffered premature battery aging, or is the apparent loss in capacity down to a malfunction in the Leaf’s dashboard display?

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EV news: Busting out all over

Electric Auto Association

Tesla climate control. EV Range: the impact of Climate Control and Powertrain A simple way to increase range in winter A new study has found that the best way to reduce the adverse effect of heating and cooling systems on EV range is by preheating or cooling the car as it charges. ElectraMeccanica.

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