article thumbnail

EV Project on Reunion Island

Green Car Congress

Renault, EDF, GBH (Groupe Bernard Hayot), Total Réunion, GE Money and the GERRI agency signed a letter of intent on the experimentation of 50 electric vehicles in Reunion Island—La Réunion, one of France’s overseas départments (DOM)—together with battery charge infrastructure powered mainly by renewable energies.

article thumbnail

Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

Green Car Congress

At the same time, consumption of graphite electrodes in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) began to rise as the Chinese government took steps to halt production of poor quality induction furnace steel. First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes.

Price 207