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Minerals used in electric cars: How much does the US import and from where?

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This post focuses on minerals used uniquely in the manufacture of electric cars. The table below lists the weight (in kg) of the minerals used in a typical electric car and a typical conventional car. Electric cars. Conventional cars. China, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia. Rare earths.

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Half of EU Electric Car Chargers in Just Two Countries!

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I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade. Nonetheless, I was shocked to see the figure that just came out from an EU EV charging analysis conducted by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) — “half of all charging points for electric […].

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Motor vehicle taxation brings in €440.4B for governments in major European markets

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New data shows that motor vehicles generate more than €440 billion in taxation per year for national governments in the major EU markets plus the UK, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) reports. The three countries that do not apply CO2-based taxation are Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.

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ACEA: data show EU market for electric cars highly fragmented; need for inclusive measures

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The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has published new data demonstrating the correlation between the market uptake of electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECVs) and both GDP and customer incentives. Five EU member states don’t offer any incentives at all: Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta and Poland.

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New cars sold in Europe in 2011 were 3.3% more fuel efficient than those sold in 2010; increasing diesel uptake

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The data also show that car manufacturers are mostly on track to meeting European Union (EU) targets. The average CO 2 emissions for these cars was 135.7 Last year the EEA reported that manufacturers had some distance to go to meet the 2015 target. million cars, but has fallen continuously since. There were 12.8

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Molycorp to increase supply of rare earth materials to Hitachi Metals; the two call off US joint venture plans

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Also, Molycorp and Hitachi Metals are suspending discussions for now on their December 2010 letter of intent to create a joint venture in the US to manufacture neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloy and permanent magnets made from the alloy. Earlier post.)

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

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According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU) in 2018 increased for the second consecutive year, reaching 120.4 However, the combined share of PHEVs and BEVs in all car sales remains low (2% compared to 1.5%

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