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UCLA Health Center receives electric Winnebago as mobile surgical instrument lab; MOTIV EPIC chassis

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The zero-emission mobile medical unit will travel between UCLA’s Ronald Reagan and Santa Monica campuses to collect, clean, repair, disinfect and sterilize surgical suite instruments. The Motiv system features a TM4 electric drivetrain with 250 kW and 2,300 N·m peak motor and a 127 kWh sodium-nickel battery system.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Aqua Metals has developed a process that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective. Charged spoke with Steve Cotton, CEO and President, and David Regan, VP of Commercial, about the different ways to recycle batteries, and the challenges of building a full-scale circular supply chain for batteries.

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Top Factors Affecting EV Adoption

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The 200,000 vehicle cap on manufacturers has also been lifted, while credits have been extended to used and commercial EVs. California led the way with the August 2022 law requiring all new cars, SUVs and pick up trucks sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

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Aqua Metals has developed a process that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective. Charged spoke with Steve Cotton, CEO and President, and David Regan, VP of Commercial, about the different ways to recycle batteries, and the challenges of building a full-scale circular supply chain for batteries.

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Top 5 Promising Technological Developments In The Electric Vehicle Sector

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Along with sodium-based alternatives, could soon supplant the seemingly obsolete lithium-ion battery. #2. Solar-powered vehicles, when used on a wide scale, help to reduce both environmental and noise emissions. There are some interesting advances in the works for other lithium-ion alternatives. Improvement in charging technology.

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Strong support for EV ambitions | Autocar Professional

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Instead, the focus is on incentivising the production of ATVs to align with global trends towards cleaner and greener mobility solutions. In the first round of PLI awards (March 2022), three companies secured incentives for lithium-ion cell manufacturing and sodium-ion cell manufacturing, committing a combined investment of Rs 27,000 crores.

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MIT and Moscow State collaborating on advanced batteries, metal-air batteries and reversible fuel/electrolysis cells

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Other work focuses on sodium as an earth-abundant alternative to lithium, but while it could lower cost, sodium ions also carry just a single charge. We need a way of producing alternative cleaner fuels, minimizing use of hydrocarbons, or at a minimum recycling the carbon dioxide to form these more useful fuels.

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