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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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E-Trike drivers will save upwards of $5 a day in fuel costs, and the new E-Trikes have the capacity to carry more passengers. The new E-Trikes, which run on an electric motor and rechargeable lithium-ion battery, will be introduced to Metro Manila and other urban centers across the Philippines under a lease-to-own arrangement.

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Next 10 report finds California will meet or exceed original target of 1.5M ZEVs by 2025

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Current trends suggest that barriers to EV adoption such as price, range, selection and charging-time will continue to diminish, as costs come down and technology improves. Total Cost of Ownership: An analysis of 17 popular 2017 models found ZEVs can already be price competitive now, without government incentives. This works out to 0.05

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Could Zinc Gel Chemistry Outperform Flow Batteries?

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—Thomas Maschmeyer, Gelion Technologies As for applications, with a charging rate sweet spot of 4 hours and a discharge rate of between 2 to 36 hours, the Gelion Endure is not suitable for quick bursts of high power, as is needed in electric vehicles or to stabilize the voltage in an electric grid.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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In India, OLA Electric and Tata group have plans to make cells at a large scale. ​Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are similar in construction to lithium-ion ones. Another good benefit is low temperature performance, this is not much of a factor for India, but its good news for people using EV’s in the Himalayas!

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Could Zinc Gel Chemistry Outperform Flow Batteries?

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—Thomas Maschmeyer, Gelion Technologies As for applications, with a charging rate sweet spot of 4 hours and a discharge rate of between 2 to 36 hours, the Gelion Endure is not suitable for quick bursts of high power, as is needed in electric vehicles or to stabilize the voltage in an electric grid.

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

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To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid. rechargeable battery?technology?that

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IDTechEX sees battery swapping as winner in 2- and 3-wheeler markets of Asia-Pacific

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These include long dwell times, high power demand from the grid, availability and reliability issues, and the need for end-users to deal with heavy cables, dirty connectors, and buggy user interfaces. It could be very likely that these OEMs introduce swapping as an alternate recharging strategy there. Two- and three-wheelers.

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