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AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Umicore is starting the industrialization of its manganese-rich HLM (high lithium, manganese) cathode active materials (CAM) technology and is targeting commercial production and use in electric vehicles (EVs) in 2026.

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JULY 17, 2022

FPT Industrial, the global powertrain brand of Iveco Group, and Blue Energy Motors , headquartered in Pune, India, and engaged in the manufacturing of clean energy trucks, have signed an agreement to introduce the first Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) trucks powered by FPT 6.7-liter liter engines on Indian roads by the end of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Despite the trend toward transportation electrification, the lithium industry has had a rough few years. Prices continued to slide in Q3 2020, with China spot prices falling below US$5,000/t CIF (Cost, Insurance, and Freight) for battery-grade lithium carbonate; contract prices edged closer to US$10,000/t CIF. Source: Roskill.

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MAY 5, 2023

The grant will provide $10 million in the first year, which will fund the consortium members, in collaboration with more than 100 partner entities, to develop a roadmap to accelerate the growth and development of geothermal, leveraging expertise, technologies, and methods from the oil and gas industry. —John Boden of SPE

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

CF Industries’ Board of Directors has approved a green ammonia project at the company’s flagship Donaldsonville Nitrogen Complex to produce approximately 20,000 tons per year of green ammonia. Industry experts project hydrogen will meet approximately 20% of the world’s energy need by 2050, up from less than 1% today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. The roadmap includes three key programs: The Refinery of the Future , which aims both to reduce the capital cost of developing a refinery and to enable decarbonization of the alumina refining process. Alcoa Corp.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2018

An economically-sustainable hydrogen industry in Australia could soon be on the cards according to a blueprint released by CSIRO, the national science agency, which found that cost-competitiveness is firmly on the horizon. Source: CSIRO. —CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall. —CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2022

Tesla’s embrace of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries has propelled the chemistry into the mainstream of the automotive industry. Automakers including Volkswagen, Daimler, and Ford have also adopted the cost-effective technology in their lower-range EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

The challenge of meeting Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 “will be short-circuited and remain out of reach” unless significant new copper supply comes online in a timely way, according to a new study by S&P Global that examines the growing mismatch between available copper supply and future demand resulting from the energy transition.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Ballard Power Systems signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chart Industries, Inc.—a Both Ballard and Chart have provided hydrogen solutions and equipment to industry for multiple decades (nearly 100 years in total), including a very rapid increase in sales activity in 2020 and year-to-date 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, numerous flawed assumptions in the draft rule are misleading and overstate potential unfavorable impacts on safety, societal cost of the regulation and new vehicle sales. The US aluminum industry continues to make significant investments to meet growing demand for automotive aluminum. —Mario Greco.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2020

A new study by University Maritime Advisory Services ( UMAS ) and Energy Transitions Commission ( ETC ) prepared for the Global Maritime Forum for the Getting to Zero Coalition, estimates that the cumulative investment needed between 2030 and 2050 to halve shipping’s CO 2 emissions amounts to approximately $1-1.4 of CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

The heart of GM’s strategy is a modular propulsion system and a highly flexible, third-generation global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries. GM’s ability to stack batteries vertically is unique in the industry and it allows for a flat cabin floor and more interior room than comparable EVs that use cylindrical battery packs.

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JULY 16, 2014

a cellulosic sugar producer ( earlier post ), has signed a letter of intent with China-based Global Bio-chem Technology Group Company Limited to develop and to commercialize processes to convert corn stover to industrial sugars for use in the production of chemicals, fuels, and other bio-based products. Edeniq, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2019

BloombergNEF (BNEF) is out with an aggressive forecast that projects electric vehicles taking up 57% of the global passenger car sales by 2040—slightly higher than it forecast a year ago—and electric buses with 81% of municipal bus sales by the same date. Our conclusions are stark for fossil fuel use in road transport.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Through this agreement, Hyundai aims to foster an EV ecosystem by alleviating the initial cost burden of EV purchases and by providing innovative services that enable eco-friendly reuse of batteries. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy plans to support the project actively in consultation with relevant ministries.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With so many of the items we interact with in our daily lives — from soaps and fertilizers to pharmaceuticals to petrochemicals — deriving from products of the chemical industry, the sector has become a major source of economic activity and employment for many nations, including the United States and China.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Cost of the service is €10 per month for unlimited data allowance*. Since 2018, our footprint in the connected car industry has been significantly growing and we look forward to our extended connectivity partnership with BMW Group in the coming years,” Jacques Bonifay, CEO of NTT DATA’s global MVNO Transatel, said.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 12, 2023

  In this, we will explore whether the depreciation cost of EVs is the same as that of conventional vehicles and the basics of the factors involved in depreciation for any type of vehicle. For instance, a car with a residual value (RV) of 40% would have lost 60% of its worth in three years or 36,000 miles (Industry standard).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The new Service Station can save costs on hydrogen production, storage and transportation by more than 20% compared to traditional hydrogen refueling stations; it is intended to become a pilot model to lead the development of China's hydrogen energy industry. Sinopec Fuel Oil Sales Co.,

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JUNE 27, 2018

Global Bioenergies has reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. They can also be converted into polypropylene, a key component in the plastics industry, with market value exceeding 70 billion dollars. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Ipsos, the global research and insights organization, says it has uncovered the thoughts of consumers regarding BEVs. This poses a huge hurdle for BEV manufacturers since the cost of batteries remains high and are then rolled into the asking price. For the BEV industry to clear these hurdles, Markusic said exposure is critical.

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JUNE 27, 2023

The results suggest a transformative opportunity to unlock the Gulf’s potential as a cost-effective source of low-carbon hydrogen for Europe. With abundant renewable energy sources (RES) and natural gas reserves, the Gulf region is set to become a leading global producer of green and blue hydrogen, ammonia and other synthesis products.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

UPS plans to deploy 50 plug-in electric delivery trucks that will be comparable in acquisition cost to conventional-fueled trucks without any subsidies—an industry first that would breaki a key barrier to large scale adoption of electric fleets. —Carlton Rose, President, Global Fleet Maintenance and Engineering for UPS.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Following successful field trial results, Cemvita has created a wholly owned subsidiary for the Gold Hydrogen business, Gold H2 LLC (GH2), and subsequently raised and closed funding into the entity, led by founding investors Chart Industries and 8090 Industries. billion in 2020. It is growing at a CAGR of 54.7% billion by 2028.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

How it is possible for the price of oil to go both up and not up, and what would that mean for the oil industry? In fact, we have been highlighting this threat to the energy industry in articles since 2015, for example here , here , here and here.) Why an oil price spike would be bad for the industry. We will explain.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A new study suggests that the global electric vehicle market will multiply in valuation by five times by 2030, based on new data acquired by Allied Market Research. The new study says that the global EV sector will reach $823.74 ” According to IBISWorld.com , the global automotive industry will be worth $2.8

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The electrification of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and fleet vehicles, is gaining significant momentum globally. According to GreenBiz , the share of electric fleet vehicles is projected to grow from less than 1 percent to 12 percent by 2030, thanks to lower battery costs, industry partnerships and government incentives.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

On average, current project estimated completion costs were 59% above the initial estimate. In absolute terms, the cumulative cost of the projects reviewed for the report has increased to $1.7T Proportions of projects facing cost overruns, delays and budget overruns. —Axel Preiss, EY’s Global Oil & Gas Advisory Leader.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Viritech, a developer of high-performance hydrogen powertrain solutions for the automotive industry, is extending its cooperation with Haydale, a global technology solutions company and a developer of functionaliZed graphene-enhanced nanomaterials.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Tesla has published its Master Plan Part 3, an outline of a proposed path to reach a sustainable global energy economy through end-use electrification and sustainable electricity generation and storage. Tesla estimates the overall manufacturing cost to reach the sustainable global energy economy at $10.4 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, and Japanese specialist chemical manufacturer, Piotrek , are partnering to commercialize Australian-developed battery technologies globally within the next five years. Piotrek General Manager Ihei Sada said combining the CSIRO SPE with Piotrek ICP will give his company a big market advantage.

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JULY 31, 2021

This project is part of ArcelorMittal’s new global 25% CO 2 2030 emissions reduction target which was announced yesterday in our second climate action report. The company recently published its second group Climate Action Report in which it set a new 2030 global carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 25%.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra’s Oxygen-Decoupled Electrolysis (ODE) process overcomes two interconnected challenges for the steel industry: Decarbonizing Steelmaking: The steel industry produces 1.9 gigatons of direct and indirect carbon dioxide emissions annually, or 10% of the global total. billion metric tons of crude steel and causes 3.7

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