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Polestar to provide batteries to Candela for electric boats

Green Car Congress

Swedish electric car maker Polestar will provide battery and charging systems for Candela’s highly efficient flying boats. The battery deal will enable Candela to scale up production swiftly, bringing mass-market electric boats one step closer to reality. Candela C-8.

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Sun Joe’s 24V power cleaner uses any fresh water source at $59 in New Green Deals

Electrek

Well, is designed to pull its water from any fresh water source, meaning you can use it at the lake or in the driveway without a hose. It’s also more compact, battery-powered, and needs no gas or oil to function. Are you tired of the large size of pressure washers?

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Tesla discusses lithium refining facility’s water supply in Nueces

Teslarati

Tesla representatives attended a community meeting in Nueces County about its proposed lithium refining facility for battery production. The Nueces County community has voiced environmental concerns about Tesla’s lithium refining facility, particularly concerning its water supply. Water Supply Concerns.

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Cirba Solutions and 6K to form JV to produce recycled battery cathode material

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Cirba Solutions, a recycled battery management and materials company, will form a joint venture with 6K Inc., This partnership provides the battery manufacturing sector with a secure and steady source of recycled cathode material that will help the United States achieve a sustainable domestic supply chain. —6K’s CEO, Aaron Bent.

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Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert – ET Auto

Baua Electric

As night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert , the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium — a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner energy, but harmful in its own way. “They are not mines, they are ecosystems,” she said. .

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Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist vessels going battery-electric; ABB power and propulsion

Green Car Congress

Cuomo announced that Maid of the Mist, which has been navigating the waters of the Lower Niagara River since 1846, will launch later this year two new all-electric, zero-emission passenger vessels constructed in the United States. The color scheme is environmentally-friendly green combined with the blue of the water. — Gil C.

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EV Mythbusting: EV Batteries Aren’t Actually Green

Clean Fleet Report

EV Mythbusting: EV Batteries Aren’t Actually Green Digging into the Heart of the Electric Car We’ve all heard the calls reporting the imminent danger we face from a changing climate. The battery is the heart of the modern electric vehicle.

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