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Ford to build next electric truck Project T3 at BlueOval City in Tennessee

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BlueOval City is designed to be Ford’s first carbon-neutral vehicle manufacturing and battery campus. The assembly plant will use carbon-free electricity from the day it opens. Plus, the zero-waste-to-landfill site is designed to use no fresh water for its assembly processes. Ford and partner SK On are investing $5.6

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Ford to build new EV and battery plants in Tennessee & Kentucky; $11.4B total investment in two mega-sites; 129 GWh/year total

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Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park—creating 5,000 jobs. Ford Blue Oval City.

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Study finds high-density, low-rise cities such as Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing life cycle GHG emissions

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A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. There is a growing belief that building taller and denser is better. —Jay Arehart.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. The EU is investing more than €1.8

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams.

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Cummins announces PLANET 2050 strategy; net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

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By 2050, Cummins is targeting net-zero carbon emissions. Generate 25% less waste in facilities and operations as a percent of revenue. In 2020, Cummins will launch a strategic community environmental program to align its efforts and affirm its commitment to the environment as one of the company’s three community priority areas.

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Siemens and Nexii unveil sustainable and cost-effective EV charging prototype for faster deployment

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The new VersiCharge XL concept was created to electrify new or existing parking lots and building structures quickly and efficiently by using a modular, scalable design made in partnership with Nexii Building Solutions (Nexii) using their proprietary, sustainable building material with low carbon footprint.