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Researchers transform waste tire char into efficient fuel cell catalysts

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A team of researchers in Italy has transformed chars—the least valuable by-product of waste-tire pyrolysis—into highly efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in alkaline fuel cells and metal air batteries. billion waste tires are produced yearly, including 2.6 million tons for just Europe alone.

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Fortum Battery Recycling exploring new hub devel­opment in Germany

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The black mass facility will be Fortum Battery Recycling’s second hub in Central Europe. In April, the company started operating a hydrometallurgical facility in Harjavalta, Finland that is today Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling facility. We want to help the entire industry produce more sustainable batteries in Europe.

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Honda E Ending Sales in Europe

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Even with EV subsidies helping to knock off a few grand, that’s remains a lot of money to spend on an automobile that’s the size of a Mitsubishi Mirage. In Europe, the car appeared to be aimed at urban families with disposable incomes and/or the need for a secondary vehicle. regulations.

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BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

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The amount of waste per vehicle is also continuously decreasing, making the BMW Group one of the world’s most sustainable automotive manufacturers. The BMW Group was positioned as sector leader in the “Automobiles” category of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World and Europe, announced just a few days ago.

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Frost & Sullivan: market for lightweight materials in automobiles to reach $95.34B in 2017

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These laws have resulted in the lowering of vehicles’ weight through the replacement of heavy materials in certain systems with lighter alternatives, as the weight of the automobile has a direct bearing on its fuel efficiency. These laws.also challenge OEMs to find innovative solutions to comply with them and still stay profitable.

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Autoliv expects to satisfy or exceed midterm enlargement goal

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STOCKHOLM — Autoliv expects to satisfy or exceed its medium-term industry enlargement goal era reiterating all of its monetary targets for this 12 months, a past later saying round 8,000 process cuts to avoid wasting prices. In a commentary forward of its U.S. Autoliv ranks Refuse. billion in 2021.

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Stellantis slams Italy for not backing EVs, putting Fiat at risk

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And Stellantis’s CEO Carlos Tarvares says the government needs to step in and do more, a lot more, to promote EVs in a country with only 4% EV adoption rate, reports Automotive News Europe. We already wasted nine months of production, of additional production in Mirafiori,” the plant in Turin, Italy, which produces the Fiat 500e.

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