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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

Green Car Congress

Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Joint biodiversity conservation activities with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Car Free Day Japan. Biodiversity Conservation.

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Gravita India largest battery recycling firm enters into EV recycling business

Electric Vehicles India

Battery recycling is not only important to save the environment from its disposals but it is also necessary to collect the precious metals comprising the batteries that must not be lost forever. Industrial recycling of lithium-ion batteries is done mainly in the European Union and China. EV batteries are not yet recycled at scale.

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New Award Recognizes IEEE Society’s Work in DEI

Cars That Think

Keynote speakers are from academia as well as industry—many of them women. This action has promoted geographic diversity in both authorship of conference papers and society membership,” Ramirez Cortés says, “and fostered an inclusive environment for members of different cultures.” A chapter in Ghana is in the process of forming.

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