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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?

Green Car Congress

There would probably not be any production in Israel if the Dead Sea were not already being exploited for other commodities. Electrolytic processing is comparatively clean but usually expensive. Today, well above 80% of the world’s magnesium comes from China. Most production in China uses thermal processing: the Pidgeon process.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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Seres 3: Why this Chinese SUV is the worst EV I’ve driven

EV Central

It appears the model sells, or has sold, in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Israel. The style’s clean and it all feels pretty well put together. Seres is a subsidiary of Chinese auto giant Dongfeng, and the Seres 3 has sold in China as the Fengon E3 since 2019. But cracks soon show.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. and tap clean, renewable energy sources. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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