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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Tesla nickel supplier BHP building off-grid solar & battery storage systems for mining

Teslarati

Tesla nickel supplier BHP announced that construction on one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems has started. BHP, a world-leading resources company in Australia, is working with TransAlta to shift its mines from fossil fuels to renewable energy. MW solar farm at Mt. Keith, plus a 10.7

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Daimler and partners deploying world’s largest 2nd-life EV battery storage unit for grid support

Green Car Congress

The process demonstrably improves the overall environmental performance of electric vehicles, thereby helping to make e-mobility more economically efficient. Depending on the model, Daimler AG guarantees its electric vehicle customers a battery life of up to ten years.

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Lightweight electromobile with ROHACELL body crosses Australia almost exclusively on wind energy

Green Car Congress

Its lithium-ion batteries, based on yet another Evonik technology, are charged by a mobile wind turbine or in the conventional way from the power grid. The Wind Explorer weighs just 80 kilograms (176 lbs) without the batteries and wind turbine. Click to enlarge.

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Better Place, China Southern Grid sign strategic agreement on battery switching; Guangzhou accord to encourage production of EVs with switchable batteries

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Better Place and China Southern Power Grid Co. The agreement, which focuses on joint electric car and infrastructure projects in CSG’s service areas, will further advance electric cars with switchable batteries in China. —China Southern Grid Chairman Zhao Jianguo. —Shai Agassi.

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Country’s Ministry of Mines announces lithium discovery

Electric Vehicles India

The Ministry of Mines once said the government is taking some aggressive steps to secure lithium-bearing minerals from Australia and Argentina in order to strengthen the new technology’s critical minerals supply chain. India is currently dependent on imports of many minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt.

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BMW targeting doubling energy density of battery cells by 2030, with current i3 as basis

Green Car Congress

Taking the technology currently in the BMW i3 as a basis, by 2030 we will be able to double the energy density of our battery cells—and therefore also the operating range of the vehicles for our customers. In future, cobalt will be sourced directly from mines in Australia and Morocco, and lithium from countries including Australia.

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