Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Statevolt , a battery startup seeking to build hyperlocal gigafactories, has acquired a 135-acre site in Imperial Valley, California, as the location for its 54 GWh Gigafactory. The business will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and storage applications using resources and supply chains sourced entirely in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a new goal to make up to 7,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity available through the smarter use of existing clean energy resources. The 7,000 MW goal complements the 38,000 MW of new clean electricity resources the state projects to need by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Findings from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) indicate there is a high probability of insufficient resources and energy to serve electricity demand, as early as Summer 2022, in many parts of the Western Interconnection.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has established a technology resources campus and business unit in Japan. FREYR’s new facility will be located in Fukuoka where the testing equipment is currently being installed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2020

Motiv Power Systems announced the deployment of nine electric box trucks with Community Resource Project (CRP). Motiv is focused on building a highly flexible system and a robust software platform that easily integrates already commercialized high-volume batteries, motors and other components into a chassis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

Using its scientific expertise and collection of geological specimens, the Museum is collaborating with leading researchers to identify resource and environmental implications of the transition to green energy technologies including electric cars. This program falls under NERC’s sustainable use of natural resources (SUNR) strategic theme.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2023

The partnership will bolster the professional societies’ shared interest in supporting industry in the adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier for industrial and commercial applications that will form a vital part of the road to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

a Honda automobile production and sales joint venture in China, will build a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) production plant to establish sufficient production system and capability in preparation for the expansion of its EV lineup in the coming years. Honda Motor (China) Investment Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

Among the deals: June 2023: Australian startup European Lithium and Saudi Arabia’s Obeikan Investment Group announced an agreement to create a joint venture to build and operate a lithium hydroxide refinery in Saudi Arabia. Earlier post.) Spodumene prices are currently around $3,650 a tonne, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Price Assessment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. From the first full year of production, the plant will be the BMW Group’s most resource-efficient production location worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $65 million through its Connected Communities funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to expand DOE’s network of grid-interactive efficient building communities nationwide. ( interactive Efficient Building: An energy?efficient efficient building that uses smart technologies and on?site

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

NTT DATA Corporation and DENSO Corporation have started to build an industry-wide ecosystem for electric vehicle (EV) batteries to create a global trusted dataspaces where only necessary data can be shared, while also protecting private data.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r This will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system installed on a building at the Audi Hungaria plant in Gy?r. r covering about 160,000 square meters. The system will have a peak output of 12 megawatts.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Houston-based Rock River Resources plans to build a small refinery and terminal for shipping crude by rail in Green River, Utah, with the goal of providing a long-term viable refining option in the region. Rock River will build a rail line to link its terminal to Union Pacific.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2023

SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. SK On has been actively building various cooperative relationships to strengthen the raw material supply chain.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Copper and zinc miner Teck Resources is considering building a lithium-ion battery recycling facility in British Columbia, CEO Jonathan Price said on Tuesday. Representative image.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

The planned facility would be the first of its kind in North America, combining cathode and precursor materials manufacturing at a large industrial scale and thereby completing the missing link in Canada’s battery value chain, from natural resources to electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). —William Livingood.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found a way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets made of material that conducts electricity with little or no resistance at temperatures warmer than before. Resources. —Thomas Brown, a PPPL engineer and co-author.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

As a result, while the number and diversity of distributed energy resources on the power grid is rapidly expanding, the adoption of these resources for power-grid balancing is hindered by concerns about safety, reliability and cost. UC San Diego is building on experience from NODES, a three-year, $2.88

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. 3,500/t LCE EXW), with large-scale drainable resources (nearly 10 Mt LCE).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

About 80 environmental activists are protesting against Tesla Giga Berlin’s expansion by building tree houses in the forests near the factory. Tesla aims to build warehouses, a freight yard, and a kindergarten for employees in the 100 hectares near Giga Berlin. For a world where everyone can live well!”

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

It’s going to take at least a decade to build up our battery supply chain in the US from mining minerals to refining them and producing actual usable materials, manufacturing battery cells, and assembling cells into modules and packs. The post Building a BEV is Not a License to Use Resources Inefficiently first appeared on EVAdoption.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

Tata Sons will build a 40GW battery cell gigafactory in the United Kingdom (UK). The plant will employ innovative technologies and resource efficient processes such as battery recycling to recover and reuse all the original raw materials to deliver a circular economy ecosystem. The investment of more than £4 billion (US$5.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

—have been selected by the Ministry for Economy, Transport and Infrastructure (METI) to receive grants under METI’s FY2018 Sustainable open Innovation Initiative (SII) to help fund “A Demonstrator Project for A Virtual Power Plant Utilizing Consumer Energy Resources (V2G Aggregator Project)”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Together, the two companies will build a production facility in Shaanxi Fupin in China to produce methanol synthesis catalysts. Forming of the joint venture and building of the catalysts facility will be the first step of a long-term strategic cooperation between Topsoe and Yanchang.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

UMVs are designed to assist in natural resource management, disaster management, all-urban and rural logistics, construction, mining and space resource development. The Industry Building that will house NHS Bozeman will break ground starting in June 2022, while the first R&D office officially opens in June 2022.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days. Tell us about Westwater’s plans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company will use the investment to build its first operational, commercial-scale plant with the intention of expanding lithium refining capacity in the Western Hemisphere. The company’s technology unlocks new assets and turns resources into reserves by enabling greater project bankability.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

million research agreement sponsored by Natura Resources to design and build a university-based advanced molten salt research reactor. ACU is leading the NEXT Research Alliance (NEXTRA), which includes Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, in a $30.5-million

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

As part of Mercedes-Benz’s Ambition2039, the focus is on the reduction of CO 2 emissions as well as the responsible use of resources along the entire supply chain. At this location Rock Tech Lithium is currently building Europe’s first lithium hydroxide converter with a planned investment volume of several hundred million Euros.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

Crowley Maritime Corporation will build and operate eWolf, the first all-electric powered harbor tugboat. The 82-foot vessel with 70 tons of bollard pull advances Crowley and the maritime industry’s efforts toward sustainability and decarbonization. tons of diesel particulate matter, and 3,100 metric tons of CO 2 versus a conventional tug.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 10, 2023

Li Auto is aiming to build about 300 super-fast charging stations this year, and NIO also plans to add 10,000 new charging piles this year, according to local media. HK (Image credit: Li Auto) Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) is starting to build out its charging infrastructure as its first all-electric model is set to be launched this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2021

the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, will build its third commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility, to be located in Gilbert, Arizona, within the Phoenix metropolitan area. Li-Cycle achieves an industry-leading recovery rate of up to 95% resource mass recovery. Li-Cycle Corp., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The proposed JV, which remains subject to negotiation of definitive documents, would combine Albemarle’s lithium production and marketing expertise with Mineral Resources Limited’s (MRL) leading regional presence and mining capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BASF will build a new battery materials production site in Schwarzheide, Germany, as part of its multi-step investment plan to support the European electric vehicle (EV) value chain. The Harjavalta plant will utilize renewable energy resources, including hydro, wind and biomass-based power.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

This year it included events , online resources , and special offers on educational products and services. The week was about bringing these resources together in one place and making sure our members and volunteers know about all of the amazing educational opportunities available to them.” IEEE TryEngineering lesson plans.

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