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Not The End Of The World — Africa Moving Towards Decarbonisation

CleanTechnica EVs

In a recent Fully Charged podcast, she reiterated what others have said: eating a plant-based diet, using renewable energy, having no car (or, if necessary, an electric […]

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Cars That Think

He’s the co-founder and president of KoBold Metals , an AI-powered mineral exploration company working to discover the materials for electric vehicle batteries. What metals do we need for electric vehicle batteries and how much do we need of them? And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

Green Car Congress

Electric vehicles represent a $7 trillion market opportunity between today and 2030, and $46 trillion between today and 2050, according to the new report, “ The Cost of Producing Battery Precursors in the DRC ”, launched at the DRC-Africa Business Forum 2021. —African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi A.

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