Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A team from metals research institute SWERIM in Sweden reports on a smelting reduction process to recover cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium simultaneously from spent Li-ion batteries. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. —Hu et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. For that reason, two-phase reaction media seem to be the most suitable environment for these particular enzymes. Under the mild conditions used, chemical catalysts were inefficient.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

Tesla’s investor day on 1 March began with a rambling, detailed discourse on energy and the environment before transitioning into a series of mostly predictable announcements and boasts. Ferrite magnets, based on a form of iron oxide, are cheap and account for nearly 30 percent of the permanent-magnet market by sales.

Motor 105

Motor Motors Motoring Minneapolis 105

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Volvo Cars’ research team created a 100-meter long test track at the company’s testing facilities in Hällered outside Gothenburg, Sweden. Our experience so far is that ferrite magnets are an efficient, reliable and relatively cheap solution, both when it comes to the infrastructure and on-board sensor technology. —Jonas Ekmark.

Volvo 230

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Cars That Think

APRIL 9, 2022

Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature. The European countries where heat pumps are most used are some of the coldest, including Norway, Sweden, and Finland, where more than 40 percent of homes use heat pumps.

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