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LKAB identifies Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals in Lapland; Per Geijer

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This is good news, not only for LKAB, the region and the Swedish people, but also for Europe and the climate. This would be sufficient to meet a large part of the EU’s future demand for manufacturing the permanent magnets that are needed for electric motors in, among other things, electric vehicles and windpower turbines.

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Mercedes breaks ground on new battery recycling facility in Germany

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” Mercedes also specifies that the new facility will be 100% carbon neutral as part of the German automaker’s continuing efforts to decarbonize its production facilities in the coming years. ” Mercedes joins the likes of Tesla, General Motors, and many others , establishing battery recycling capabilities worldwide. .”

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Heat Pumps Go North

Cars That Think

And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our newsletters. And that national carbon dioxide emissions would fall by 5 to 9 percent overall. So that’s pretty good. Waltz: Yeah.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.