Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The report— A Vision for a Sustainable Battery Value Chain in 2030 —suggests that, with a concerted push to put the right conditions in place, batteries could enable a 30% reduction in carbon emissions in both the transport and power sectors. This would also contribute to achieving the more ambitious 1.5°

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

The first credit line is expected to be granted by the Climate Fund, a BNDES program designed to provide financing to support businesses and projects that help mitigate climate change and reduce carbon emissions, with urban mobility as one of its nine sub-programs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an optimized generic battery cycling framework that could reduce the time for both simulation and physical testing of new electric vehicle battery designs by about 75%. cycling the battery—1,000 times to mimic a decade of use. It takes such a long time to evaluate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

a startup developing innovative solid-state battery systems for use in future electric vehicles (EVs) that would fully charge in minutes, announced the grant of an exclusive technology license by Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) and a seed round financing of $5.15 Adden Energy, Inc., That could be a game changer.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Are solid-state electric vehicle (EV) batteries a solution to some of the issues with the lithium-ion batteries powering our EVs today? The environmental implications of moving to solid-state EV batteries are significant.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

Norway-headquartered Vianode, a manufacturer of synthetic graphite for battery anodes, has released the results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) of its planned industrial-scale production. Vianode’s ambition is to change the way batteries and battery materials are produced,” said Vianode CEO Burkhard Straube. “In

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company’s electrification and emissions reduction efforts support the aims of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change and global progress toward carbon neutrality by 2050. The company will also strive for greater energy and material efficiencies to support longer-term carbon neutrality ambitions.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets, we must devise ways to get people and goods from point A to point B without burning fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

As the state transitions to a carbon-neutral economy, and as other states and countries increasingly adopt ambitious climate policy, the state’s investments must align with the reality of this major market shift.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Battery materials company Nano One Materials has entered into a binding agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Johnson Matthey (JM) Battery Materials Ltd. In November 2021, Johnson Matthey decided to exit the battery materials business, and has been working since to find a buyer or multiple buyers for its related assets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2020

The electrolyte evenly formed a protective film on the negative electrode and the positive electrode of the lithium metal battery, increasing the lifespan and output of the entire battery. Li/Li + ). O 2 full cell, with a high Coulombic efficiency of 99.98% after 100 cycles at 25 °C. —Lee et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. of the UK’s 2.5 in 2017 to 119,821 units.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

The model predicts lithium-ion batteries to be the cheapest technology in the coming decades. We have found that lithium-ion batteries are following in the footsteps of crystalline silicon solar panels. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Joule. Credit: Schmidt et al. —first author Oliver Schmidt.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 billion over five years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Leading commercial vehicle manufacturers Volvo Group, Daimler Truck, and the TRATON Group have signed a binding agreement to create a joint venture (JV) to install and to operate a high-performance public charging network for battery-electric, heavy-duty long-haul trucks and coaches across Europe. —Christian Levin, CEO TRATON Group.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An open-access editorial in the journal Nature Materials observes that the porposed new regulations for the European battery industry could actually make the electrification of transport harder. For vehicle electrification, lithium-ion batteries are the key energy technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Kynar CTO PVDF grades using the mass balance approach under the ISCC+ certification process will be produced first in Arkema’s Pierre-Bénite plant in France for its European customers, focusing initially on grades specifically targeted for the lithium-ion battery market. These grades are expected to be commercialized by mid-2022.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

In addition, the ocean shipping industry has urged the coastal shipping industry to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) as one of Japan’s measures to address climate change. The seven e5 Consortium corporate members are focusing their attention on fulfilling the potential of electric vessels to solve these issues.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

BIT:ENI) recently unveiled what has been hailed as the most ambitious climate pledge yet by an oil supermajor. In fact, if you remove Equinor from the equation, Big Oil’s renewable investments will actually decline over the next three years before even factoring in the industry-wide deep capex cuts due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

In EMEA, the unit is now available with an optional lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack to power the unit and maintain temperature when a vehicle is idling or turned off. Trane Technologies’ Thermo King has the largest range of zero and low-emission transport temperature control solutions in the industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the last two years, Governor Sisolak and the Legislature laid the groundwork to put Nevada on a path toward climate resilience. Without taking climate action, the state will fail to make meet the necessary greenhouse gas reduction goals set forth under SB 254 and pursuant to Governor Sisolak’s Executive Order on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s an issue the battery industry has been whispering about for some time. The US battery supply chain risks being caught flat-footed and is in danger of being run over by overwhelming demand as thousands of new electric vehicles are hitting American streets every year. We cannot afford to miss this opportunity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2023

Through this offtake MoU, a full circular value chain could be established whereas NMG would supply carbon-neutral graphite materials to Caterpillar for the development of its secure, resilient, and sustainable battery supply chain that would serve to electrify heavy vehicles, including NMG’s Matawinie fleet.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortescue, will be a key enabler of this target through the development of green electricity, green hydrogen and green ammonia projects in Australia. We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change. —Elizabeth Gaines, Fortescue CEO.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. The draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan was developed by the California Air Resources Board in collaboration and coordination with multiple state agencies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2022

(NMG) and Panasonic Energy entered into a Framework Agreement establishing the terms of the commercial relationship between the parties to enable the next development steps of NMG’s ore-to-battery-market integrated graphite project in Québec, Canada.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

To solve the climate crisis, we need to cut this in half by 2030, and get to zero by 2050. However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. Surprisingly, many founders I talked with echoed the shortage of roboticists in climate tech.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

A recent UN report paints a stark picture of the global climate crisis, attributing much of the crisis to fossil fuel pollution. Embracing the urgent call to combat climate change, India has set an ambitious timeline for Net Zero transition.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

Crawford is poised to support the energy transition through the large scale production of critical minerals, including nickel and cobalt, and to become the sole North American producer of chromium, while also supporting the country’s climate objectives through large scale carbon capture and storage. IPT Carbonation – Crawford Nickel Project.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Instead, he and others are trying to invent new climate-control technology that doesn’t further exacerbate the dangers facing the planet’s climate. Winners of the 2021 Global Cooling Prize—both heat pumps—reduce cooling’s climate impact by as much as 80 percent. Still, in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data. Mt to 3.22 Mt (7% year-on-year growth).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

Electric drivetrain power and control systems, as well as batteries and accessories, will be supplied by TransPower, a California-based manufacturer of integrated drive systems, full-electric truck solutions and energy-storage subsystems.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Log9, one of India’s well-known developers of advanced battery cell technology and EV Mobility Ecosystem products has rebranded of its mobility business. The event was graced by Narayana Murthy, ex CEO and Co-Founder of Infosys, and Sonam Wangchuk, Education Reformist and Climate Activist.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Scientists have made a major advance in harnessing machine learning to accelerate the design for better batteries. He said the results overturn long-held assumptions about how lithium-ion batteries charge and discharge and give researchers a new set of rules for engineering longer-lasting batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It would also grant much needed certainty to the automotive industry and to grid operators, re-charging infrastructure operators and transport companies as well. The proposal would also aid the creation of one million jobs across the continent and help the EU meet its climate goals, according to the groups.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a comprehensive vision for deeply decarbonizing transportation.

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