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BrightDrop electric vans headed to Mexico

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BrightDrop is adding Mexico as the next country to receive its electric vans. BrightDrop Zevos will be available for customers to order in Mexico starting later this year. The first two products coming to Mexico are BrightDrop’s flagship electric vans: the BrightDrop Zevo 400 and BrightDrop Zevo 600.

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CPKC orders 3.6MW of Ballard fuel cells for expansion of hydrogen locomotive program

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CPKC moves essential goods across a 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the US and Mexico. In June, CPKC and CSX Corporation announced their intent to enter into a joint venture for the building and deployment of hydrogen locomotive conversion kits for diesel electric locomotives.

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Tesla outlines scheme for $4-5B battery Gigafactory; announces $1.6B offering

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Via a post on its website, Tesla Motors outlined its plan for its future battery “Gigafactory”, projected to require between $4-5 billion in investment from Tesla and its partners by 2020, with a resulting cell capacity of up to 35 GWh/year and pack capacity of up to 50 GWh/y to service a projected 500,000 Tesla electric vehicles per year.

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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today

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Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Active conversations with a wide variety of partners to help achieve this 2030 EV vision. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. As batteries get cheaper and smaller, and motors get light enough to fit inside wheels, we’ll be able to upgrade smaller cars. When they’re mass-produced, conversions will cost under $10-$15,000.

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Roskill: predominance of lithium production shifting to mineral vs brine, driven by volume requirements of EVs

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In large part, this has been driven by investment in exploration within the mineral sector, and the hunt for lithium-bearing pegmatites in Australia, Canada and Europe, and lithium-bearing clay deposits in the US and Mexico. It also includes cost analysis on the key mineral conversion plants.

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Roskill: predominance of lithium production shifting to mineral vs brine, driven by volume requirements of EVs

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In large part, this has been driven by investment in exploration within the mineral sector, and the hunt for lithium-bearing pegmatites in Australia, Canada and Europe, and lithium-bearing clay deposits in the US and Mexico. It also includes cost analysis on the key mineral conversion plants.