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

Green Car Congress

In the 1990s, the magnesium metal market was dominated by supply from North America (46%), what is now the CIS (25%) and western Europe (19%). 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.

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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. Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. That’s not cheap, except by U.S. Reaper, which it broadly resembles.

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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. An embryonic movement is growing in Europe to build “smart cities&# that will challenge the status quo. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said.

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The right way to get oil-rich West Asia to pressure electrical vehicles? Chinese language EV makers contemplate

Baua Electric

s top class Zeekr emblem have began promoting in Israel and planning to make bigger into extra international locations within the patch, together with Qatar and Bahrain. There’s also the threat of the Israel-Hamas war escalating. While it’s still relatively cheap to run a gas-guzzler in many places — petrol costs between $2.18

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! Israel is nowhere near the Top 10, but I just wanted to brag). Europe has an unprecedented 8 out of our Top 10 spots. Basically EVs are happening in Northwest Europe, and far far less elsewhere. in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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