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Strong support for EV ambitions | Autocar Professional

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Eligibility for participation The scheme covers over 100 Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV) components, including crucial elements such as hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen injection systems, electric vehicle (EV) motors, and lightweight cryogenic cylinders.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2 Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

However the finding also suggest that the economic downturn may have played its part in poor performance in the US, as car giant, General Motors’ poor financial performance is accompanied by the worst sustainability performance recorded. Its sodium oxide value contributions show the worst level of resource efficiency in the entire study.

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The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges

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For example, the mineral requirements for an EV’s batteries and electric motors are six times that of an ICE vehicle, which can increase the average weight of an EV by 340 kgs (750 pounds). Another solution may be recycling both EV batteries as well as the waste and rejects from battery manufacturing, which can run.