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BHP, Caterpillar, and Finning to replace haul truck fleet at world’s largest copper mine with 798 AC electric-drive trucks

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BHP Group, Caterpillar, and Finning International announced an agreement to replace BHP’s entire haul truck fleet at the Escondida mine —the world’s largest producer of copper concentrates and cathodes located in the Antofagasta Region, northern Chile.

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ExxonMobil and Porsche testing biofuels and lower-carbon eFuel in race conditions

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The eFuel will be sourced from the Haru Oni pilot plant based in Chile that generates hydrogen, which is then combined with captured carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to produce methanol. As the fuel’s primary user, Porsche will use the eFuels from Chile among others in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup starting in the season of 2022.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. Some even say that it pollutes even more than a diesel or petrol burning car. Diesel or petrol starts as oil, on average 1,798 meters below the surface of the earth.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. The industry is being impacted largely by the uncertainty for the future, and this issue started to arise even before the pandemic took hold.

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This driverless tractor will haunt your dreams of the robot uprising

Baua Electric

Firstgreen Industries is calling its new Elise CBL the world’s first cabinless, remotely operated electric skid steer. And, because it’s electric, it can do so without adding diesel exhaust emissions, themselves a known carcinogen , to the list of hazards faced by its operators. It’s a solution that is widely used in mining in Chile.”

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How e-fuel may just lengthen the pace of ICE cars within the electrical life

Baua Electric

“There’s no road map for industrialization at the scale that would be needed for e-fuels to replace fossil fuels,” Hallmark mentioned. ” Porsche, at the alternative hand, invested $75 million in an organization that produces e-fuels in Chile. .

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Opinion: Why Lithium Will See Another Price Spike This Fall

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While future demand from the automotive industry is significant, the real game changer for the lithium industry may be electrical grid storage. Southwest is becoming a new hotbed for the lithium industry. Electrical Grid Connections. Grid storage is designed on a variety of scales, each with a different price point.

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