article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

Then came the rapid ascent of production in China and with it a flood of low-cost magnesium. There would probably not be any production in Israel if the Dead Sea were not already being exploited for other commodities. By the early 2000s production in France, Italy and Norway had ended.

Green 186
article thumbnail

Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. In 1938, a single British Spitfire cost £9,500 to produce, equivalent to about US $1 million today. Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive.

Ukraine 99
article thumbnail

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

EV Central

2023 Seres 3 Luxury EV: not terrible to look at, but it hides its sins You can read how touring the South of France in a Seres 3 almost cost me my marriage here , but that was mainly due to France’s EV public chargers going on strike as regularly as its workforce. Ergo, the Seres 3 price shocks me next to these rivals.

Chinese 92
article thumbnail

EPFL/Technion team develops “champion” nanostructures for efficient solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

Researchers from EPFL in Switzerland and Technion-Israel Institue of Technology have developed nanoparticle-based ?-Fe Avner Rothschild at Technion in Israel, developed an approach for correlating the spatial distribution of crystalline and current-carrying domains in entire nanoparticle aggregates. © LPI / EPFL. Click to enlarge.

Solar 230
article thumbnail

Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

Grid 28
article thumbnail

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. These both cost much less than lithium cells.

article thumbnail

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

Grid 28