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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

One of the companies featured in the story, Gravitricity, completed its 250-kilowatt gravity battery demonstrator in Edinburgh last April and is now working on a full-scale deployment at a mine in the Czech Republic. We’ll still have to do the hard work of cutting carbon emissions, but geoengineering could be a way to buy us some time.

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Pike Research: Europe to have 4.1M EV charging stations by 2020, but needs to address country-specific variations

Green Car Congress

Some national governments will pay for charging stations or give cash incentives to people buying plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), while other countries will not give any financial support to EV infrastructure (and, historically, have not given any). Across Europe, multiple technologies and rates apply to charging an EV.

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