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

Baua Electric

Renewable energies, energy storage and e-mobility play a central role in achieving climate protection targets. In 2023 around 30 providers of products from the e-mobility sector are expected to exhibit at The smarter E South America.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

Cars That Think

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Green Car Congress

The conurbation of the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto is one of the fastest growing urban settlements in South America with the particularity of being located in a very complex terrain at a high altitude. Therefore, air pollution in this region has a particularly strong impact on the atmosphere and the global climate.

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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

Green Car Congress

European Energy is a global renewable energy company and project developer (wind, solar and Power to X). Orsted is a global renewable energy company with activities within onshore wind, solar-pv, Power-to-X, and offshore wind, where the company is the world leader. The feedstock for the bio-methanol will be agricultural residues.

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Study Finds Unexpected Decadal Decline in Global Evapotranspiration, Links It to Moisture Limitation in Southern Hemisphere

Green Car Congress

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. —Jung et al. millimeters per year per decade. Jung et al.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

link] Social Media post create anti EV FUD [link] The World Bank’s Climate-Smart Mining Initiative showing Lithium Battery Production [link] Using low-carbon hydrogen or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half.

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Redwood Materials Will Recycle Hawaiian Grid Batteries

Cars That Think

Lithium-ion battery recycling took a big step forward this week, as a Hawaiian utility announced it is undertaking one of the biggest examples of grid-storage recycling in North America to date. Many large grid-storage sites already exist in North America.

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