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Proposed California Bill SB-233 Mandates Bidirectional Charging for EVs to Advance Grid and Climate Protection

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What’s more, it’s expected that other states will follow California’s lead in matters of climate protection and EV adoption. The post Proposed California Bill SB-233 Mandates Bidirectional Charging for EVs to Advance Grid and Climate Protection appeared first on Driivz.

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Bosch Chairman Says Business Must Do More for Climate Protection, Even in Difficult Times

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Business must do even more for climate protection, even in difficult times, said Franz Fehrenbach, chairman of the Bosch board of management, an a talk at the Baden-Württemberg sustainability congress held in Stuttgart on 25 March ( Nachhaltigkeitskongress Baden-Württemberg 2009 ). In Fehrenbach’s view, this would be a breach of trust.

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CESifo: EVs not the best option for reduction in on-road CO2 in Germany given power mix

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Unfortunately, due to our grid situation, electric cars are still too early for this strategic goal in the sense of German climate protection efforts. The idea of providing the necessary storage of wind and solar energy with batteries is utopian, as the Leopoldina, Acatech and the Union of Academies of Sciences have emphasized.

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The launch of Power2Drive South America Exhibition and Conference 2024 – Charged EVs

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Renewable energies, energy storage and e-mobility play a central role in achieving climate protection targets. CONTACT Gioia Müller-Russo Solar Promotion International GmbH Tel. +49 As efficient and environmentally friendly mobility solutions, electric vehicles have an important contribution to make to the energy transition.

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Member of Swiss National Councils fills up with sunfire solar diesel to call attention to need for regulatory reform

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Böhni emphasized that the production of climate-neutral fuel is key to climate protection and therefore needs to be given a fair chance; he established the Clean Fuel Now initiative at the Federal Parliament in Bern in late 2014. Climate change is happening much faster than we thought a few years ago. Earlier post.).

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Mercedes breaks ground on new battery recycling facility in Germany

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This is achieved through a mix of solar energy installed at the facility and green energy purchased from the grid. .'” Mercedes also specifies that the new facility will be 100% carbon neutral as part of the German automaker’s continuing efforts to decarbonize its production facilities in the coming years.

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BASF intensifying R & D of products for sustainable electromobility; triple-digit million euro investment in batteries over next 5 years

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Electromobility will only significantly contribute to environmental and climate protection when the electricity from the batteries has been generated high efficiently and with less CO 2. Therefore we are investing in research to find ways of generating electricity from renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar energy.