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BNEF: EV company fundings bright spot as clean energy investment slips in Q3 quarter; 3 China EV companies raise $1.9B

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We’re seeing more companies raising funds as they look to make the jump from concept cars to high-volume manufacturing. billion, down 15% on 3Q 2017, while the purchase of small-scale solar systems of less than 1MW totaled $13.5 In 3Q, Chinese solar investment was $14.2 Turkey at $1.2 —Colin McKerracher.

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Eight new EV brands you’ve never hears of – and they don’t come from China

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Izera Izera concept. While Izera concepts were first shown in 2024, its factory in Jaworzno (Poland) won’t start construction until 2024 with first production cars rolling off the line in 2025. A Mexican solar manufacturer, SEV has expanded into BEVs and announced its first model, the E-WAN. SEV 2023 SEV E-WAN.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance, CEA and FSI to Form Joint Venture to Develop and Manufacture Batteries for Electric Vehicles

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The Renault-Nissan Alliance will use its European battery plants in France, the UK and Portugal to supply electric vehicles built around Europe and Turkey. Renault intends to use the batteries produced at Flins primarily for the all-new electric car that will derive from the Zoé Ze Concept, also to be built at the Flins plant.

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France’s IFPEN studying industrial potential of onshore sources of natural hydrogen

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In the future, hydrogen produced through water electrolysis is expected to be used to store energy as a way of compensating for solar or wind power’s intermittent output. continuous outgassing by the Earth, which would significantly alter conceptions of the chemical composition of terrestrial planets’ interior structure.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

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The InterPlanetary File System gets its name because, in theory, it could be extended to share data even between computers on different planets of the solar system. The world had a chance to observe how content addressing worked in April 2017 when the government of Turkey. Welcome to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

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MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

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A major joint research project has therefore been investigating the use of concentrated solar power to produce both electricity and desalinated seawater. Analysis has shown that this novel cogeneration concept is technologically viable in Cyprus. However, if additional gas is found or brought in from other countries, that might change.

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

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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