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It additionally calls for electrical energy from renewable resources. ” Porsche, at the alternative hand, invested $75 million in an organization that produces e-fuels in Chile. . ” Porsche, at the alternative hand, invested $75 million in an organization that produces e-fuels in Chile.
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We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). Primary supply sources are concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo for cobalt, Southeast Asia and Russia for nickel, and Australia/Chile/China for lithium,” says Litinsky. “In Farewell to falling prices.
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