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Australia, Indonesia should team up for battery supply chains, ACEN CEO says – ET Auto

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New Delhi: Top lithium producer Australia and major nickel suppliers Indonesia and the Philippines could team up to develop regional battery storage systems, the head of Philippine energy firm ACEN said on Monday.

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Ford secures nickel supplies with $4.5 billion investment

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Ford has announced that it has partnered with two other entities to construct a nickel processing facility in Indonesia. Besides the massive retooling effort that has taken the auto industry by storm over the past two years, the search for raw materials for EV batteries has become a growing priority for automakers.

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Indonesian official says current nickel price will benefit miners, smelters – ET Auto

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Most investment in nickel processing in Indonesia is for nickel pig iron (NPI), the main feedstock for stainless steel, but the government wants to develop local production of batteries and EVs. The contract had surged in 2022 to a record high above USD 100,000 after expectations of reduced supplies from major producer Russia.

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Volvo Trucks enters LNG truck segment in India, fuel technology ‘first step’ towards its 2040 carbon neutrality target – ET Auto

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With the country’s commercial vehicle (CV) industry gradually adding LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) to its fuel portfolio, the Swedish truck maker has made an entry into this segment, with a 42-tonner FM420 LNG. A batch of 20 trucks has been delivered to logistics company Delhivery. And, we’re also growing in the domestic market.

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Britishvolt wants to build battery gigafactories around the world

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As EV sales grow, it is critical to establish local battery production and shorten supply chains. For Aston Martin, a joint R&D team will design, develop, and industrialize battery packs, including bespoke modules and a battery management system. This article appeared in Issue 59: Jan-Mar 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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In the United States, the record production of biofuels is attributed in part to high oil prices, which encouraged several large fuel companies, including Sunoco, Valero, Flint Hills, and Murphy Oil, to enter the ethanol industry. Sugarcane ethanol supplies 41.5% billion liters abroad, a 300% increase over 2009. Virtually all of the 1.5

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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