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Advent Technologies, BASF sign MoU to increase manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes

Green Car Congress

BASF intends to improve the long-term stability of its Celtec membrane and to increase production capacity with advanced technical capabilities to enable further improved and competitive Advent fuel cell systems and membrane electrode assembly (MEA). The MEA is the heart of the fuel cell, determining the overall system performance.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

Green Car Congress

The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. As our North Sea production reduces over the last few years, we have been increasingly reliant on imported gas that accounts for close to half our needs. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link].

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. The reason the funding was dropped is not clear, but the challenge facing Europe’s big power generators is obvious ? but not all of it. — AH2 14.

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