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Northvolt postpones planned 60GWh battery production

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Northvolt has announced that the ongoing European energy crisis is forcing them to postpone battery production at the company’s new facility in Germany; it is now considering U.S. The company strategically places facilities in locations where cheap electricity is available. battery production instead.

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Satellite Signal Jamming Reaches New Lows

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 put Ukrainian communications in a literal jam: Just before the invasion, Russian hackers knocked out Viasat satellite ground receivers across Europe. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs. Satellites are becoming smaller.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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He took the first step in Crimea in 2014 , and in the early morning hours of 24 February he ordered a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. But the room for rapid changes is limited.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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And the recent revelation of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine have renewed calls to boycott Russian gas, an action European countries are struggling to figure out how to implement. But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.”

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. Ukraine denied the allegation.

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BMW i Ventures invests in HeyCharge to amplify EV charging rollout at residential locations; Y Combinator alum

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With 56% of Germany and 46% of Europe living in apartment buildings, and 37% of renters in the US, this is an obvious next step for the expansion of EV charging stations, but the current reliance on internet connectivity is holding scalability back. —Chris Cardé, Founder and CEO, HeyCharge.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. GERMANY AND SWEDEN, 64 POINTS (10TH AND 4TH IN 2019) Claim to fame: the fame is all Germany’s this time.

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