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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants to source electricity from German wind farms

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Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. EEG subsidy ending starting in 2021. million households.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Volkswagen striving to make production of the electric ID. carbon-neutral

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The production of an electric vehicle currently generates significantly more CO 2 than that of cars with a combustion engine—around 150% on average. This will be made possible, among other things, by the consistent avoidance and reduction of CO 2 emissions in the supply chain. LG Chem is supplying the cells for the ID.,

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CLEPA study: EV-only approach would lead to the loss of half a million supplier jobs in the EU

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501,000 auto supplier jobs in Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) powertrain components production are expected to become obsolete if technology is phased-out by 2035 (84% of current ICE jobs). The study is also the first to evaluate the impact of different policy pathways to reach Green Deal objectives with a focus on automotive suppliers.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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As part of the electric offensive, Mercedes-Benz Cars counts on local emission-free vehicles. In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower. Any resulting CO 2 -emissions are offset by qualified environmental projects.

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Mercedes-Benz prepares car production network for new electric portfolio

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The plant is also responsible for the production of the compact vehicles A-Class, B-Class and GLA with combustion engine and plug-in hybrid. The Mercedes-Benz battery factory in Jawor, Poland, has been producing plug-in hybrid batteries for the C-, E- and S-Class since 2020. Sustainability in production.

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

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Source: BNEF.

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