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British Airways invests in LanzaJet; SAF offtake agreement

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British Airways will power future flights with sustainable aviation fuel produced from sustainably-sourced ethanol, as part of a new partnership with sustainable jet fuel company LanzaJet. British Airways will invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial-scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia and acquire cleaner burning sustainable aviation fuel from the plant.

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Toyota EV plans, Audi E-Tron GT debut, battery supply woes, past peak oil: The Week in Reverse

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Which EV maker bought a whole lot of carbon-intensive bitcoin? Which country became far better known as a hub for electric vehicles this past week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending February 12, 2021. Toyota on Wednesday announced a big change in its product strategy, as it.

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HyDeal Ambition to deliver green hydrogen across Europe at the price of fossil fuels; 3.6Mt green H2/year by 2030

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After 2 years of research and confidential preparation, a group of 30 European energy players has launched HyDeal Ambition with the aim of delivering 100% green hydrogen across Europe at €1.5/kg before 2030. The production of green hydrogen generated by solar-driven electrolysis from the Iberian Peninsula will begin in 2022. The ambition is to achieve 95 GW of solar and 67 GW of electrolysis capacity by 2030 to deliver 3.6 million tonnes of green hydrogen per year to users in the energy, industr

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RareX executes MoU with global rare earths producer Shenghe Resources

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Australian rare earths exploration and development company RareX Limited entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the leading global rare earths producer, China-based Shenghe Resources Holdings. Shenghe, listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, has a market capitalization of approximately US$4.6 billion. It is a leading producer of rare earths, zirconium and titanium, and is vertically integrated through the rare earths value chain from ore mining, processing to concentrat

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Hyundai Motorsport to participate in PURE ETCR electric touring car championship with Veloster N ETCR

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Hyundai Motorsport will soon participate in the inaugural all-electric touring car championship PURE ETCR , which will commence later this year, with its new all-electric high-performance touring car, the Veloster N ETCR. Like the i30 N TCR and i20 N Rally2, the Veloster N ETCR is based on a highly-modified version of another Hyundai N car, the North American Veloster N model.

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Two versions of SVOLT NMX cobalt-free cells now available for order

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SVOLT Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a spin-off from China’s Great Wall Motors, announced its cobalt-free battery cells in 2019. ( Earlier post.) The first cell variants can now be ordered. Globally, SVOLT is initially offering two sizes of the innovative nickel-manganese battery cells (NMX). These do not require the heavy metal cobalt, which is otherwise used to thermally stabilize high-nickel battery cells (NCM).

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