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Documenting the EV battery material supply chain: Traceability challenges, Part One

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OPTEL has partnered with test, inspection and certification specialist Bureau Veritas to create a comprehensive traceability service called V-Trace, which companies and government regulators can use to follow products through their supply chains, from extraction of the raw materials to final assembly. Q&A with OPTEL’s Ken Fallu.

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Ford to sell 8M Rivian shares after $3.1B net loss

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The lockup period refers to when early investors cannot sell their shares after a company’s IPO. The EV manufacturer also stated that the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted its business and operations. Ford plans to sell 8 million of its Rivian shares. The lockup period for Rivian’s IPO will expire on Sunday, May 8.

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Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

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The reasons for the cozier relationship between the two giant powers are, of course, rooted in the Ukraine crisis and subsequent Western sanctions against Russia, combined with China’s need to secure long-term energy supplies. The company was also seeking financing for a gas project in Russia despite Western sanctions. “It

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

Cars That Think

To help dodge sanctions, Russia had demanded that by the start of this month, members of the European Union begin paying for the natural gas it was buying in rubles rather than dollars or euros, threatening to cut off supplies if they didn’t. Heat pumps are, basically, air conditioners that run in reverse.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. Even if that were possible, there would also have to be an enormous increase in charging infrastructure and in material supply chains.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k

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