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JANUARY 12, 2020

In August 2019, CRU reported on the steady slide in prices that has occurred in the lithium market since the beginning of the year. Since then, prices have continued to fall, CRU notes. Lithium hydroxide has fallen by 30% to RMB 74,500/t, according to CRU’s price assessments. The rest of the lithium market is fragmented.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 3, 2023

Porsche will reportedly be raising prices between 4 and 8 percent on the European and U.S. Unless you’ve been in a coma for the last few years, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that automotive pricing has gone off the rails. while raising vehicle pricing and trying to leverage connectivity into higher profits. billion ($2.03

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MARCH 16, 2022

By incorporating I-See, low rear axle ratios and load sensing software, at highway speeds, the truck’s system will select either direct drive or overdrive to maximize fuel efficiency without forfeiting performance or productivity. —Johan Agebrand, director of product marketing at Volvo Trucks North America.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

Therefore, product quality is high on the priority list of any manufacturer that has a strong focus on quality. Till recent times, many businesses used to keep a healthy level of reserve stock in the warehouse to ensure their customers are never let down in the event of an unplanned break in production.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

kg helmet ensures exposure reduction by more than 80% as measured using a controlled environment. The product, at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) level 9 has been granted utility patent and is now being sold in all parts of the country priced at Rs. The end-users of the product include individual riders all over India.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2023

Porsche has announced a new set of price increases alongside its incredible Q1 financial report, which crushed investor expectations. However, while this success has been great for Porsche investors and fans, buyers have been less lucky as the automaker has increased pricing on popular models.

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APRIL 1, 2020

IHS Markit Crude Oil Markets service expects up to 10 MMb/d of world oil production will be cut or shut-in from April to June 2020 as oil storage fills up and output from financially strapped companies begins to fall. The oil surplus—the amount of production in excess of demand—will soon fill storage tanks around the world.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Earlier this year, Australian lithium miner Core Lithium entered into a binding term sheet with Tesla for the supply of up to 110,000 tonnes of Li 2 O spodumene concentrate from the Finniss Lithium Project over a term of 4 years, with pricing referenced to the market price for spodumene concentrate, subject to a price floor and ceiling.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden have developed a new battery cell production process that coats the electrodes of the energy storage cells with a dry film instead of liquid chemicals. This simplified process saves energy and eliminates toxic solvents. © Fraunhofer IWS.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Blackstone, together with a German industry and research consortium, will take the validated laboratory results of the 3D-printed solid-state batteries to the stage of demonstration in a real environment within the next three years. The results of the development project will form the basis for the market-ready product.

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JUNE 23, 2022

A new analysis by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment finds that Europe burns more than 17,000 tonnes of rapeseed and sunflower oil every day—the equivalent of 19 million 1-liter bottles. Supermarkets have had to ration vegetable oils and prices are soaring. In a time of scarcity we must prioritize food over fuel.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

With oil prices low and showing no sign of an immediate rebound, the industry is beginning to pull back on spending. Oil prices have dropped around 30 percent since summer highs, raising fears among producers across the globe. In other words, lower oil prices hurt demand for Transocean’s drilling rigs.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In its new Lithium Outlook to 2030 report, Roskill notes that the prolonged downward trend for lithium compound and mineral concentrate prices has caused a difficult environment for many lithium producers since 2018. In 2019, monthly average lithium carbonate prices fell 36% between January and December. Source: Roskill.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Nissan weighs partnership with Honda to lower EV prices As automakers look to prevent falling further behind EV leaders like BYD , partnerships could become more common According to Nikkei , Nissan may take the plunge as it weighs a partnership with Honda to develop more affordable EV tech. The partnership could include a new EV platform.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

A new Ford Motor Company-sponsored poll of 6,000 people across Europe found that most Europeans remain committed to car ownership, but have growing concerns about traffic congestion, the cost of driving and the environment. —Barb Samardzich, vice president, Product Development, Ford of Europe. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

When oil prices were high and production was relentlessly climbing, energy related junk bonds looked highly profitable. The situation will compound itself if oil prices stay low. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the oil and gas sector on November 25 to a “negative” outlook because of falling oil prices.

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JULY 30, 2021

Niron will use the funding to build its pilot production facility in Minnesota and accelerate the development of its Clean Earth Magnet technology. Niron’s production process is up to 95% less damaging across certain environmental impacts than alternatives, as its input materials require no toxic mining and refining. 2019.165962.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A team at Imperial College London has examined the relative costs of carbon mitigation from a lifecycle perspective for 12 different hydrogen production techniques using fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable sources. Hellgardt (2019) “Levelized Cost of CO 2 Mitigation from Hydrogen Production Routes” Energy Environ.

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MAY 17, 2022

This version, with expected full production in 2027, pairs with clean, zero-carbon hydrogen fuel, a key enabler of Cummins’ strategy to go further faster to help customers reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With Cummins’ significant global manufacturing footprint, the company can quickly scale production.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Hydrogen-based direct reduced iron (H 2 -DRI) is an alternative pathway for low-carbon steel production. Yet, the lack of established process and business models defining “green steel” make it difficult to understand what the respective H 2 price has to be in order to be competitive with commercial state-of-the-art natural gas DRI. …

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

In the Douglas-Westwood Monday note , Andy Jenkins from the energy research group’s London office observes that the decline in oil prices may impact deepwater production and in particular a key future enabler: subsea processing (SSP). —Andy Jenkins.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. Its simple design and low levels of friction make it particularly competitive in terms of the performance it delivers for its price. Low pressure EGR. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 7, 2022

Comau, part of Stellantis, is integrating its technology and automation expertise to manage the assembly and production of fuel cell components and electrolyzers. By helping industrialize the traditionally manual manufacturing environment, Comau expects to reduce manufacturing costs by up to 20%.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook , the Transportation Yearbook , the Power Yearbook , the Iron and Steel Yearbook , the Cement Almanac , statistics of oil companies and power companies.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

Liu Shijin, deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, one of China’s top government think tanks, told a forum that the government should shift its guidance to automakers from mere pursuit of output capacity to environment-friendly and energy-saving targets.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

“There is evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are socially inequitable, that they encourage smuggling and waste, and distort economies in ways that undermine economic efficiency while harming the environment and the climate,” wrote Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Costs ranged from a low of 0.3% Subsidies remained sticky outside the G20 as well.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For the first time, the IHS Markit base case scenario for refined products expects total global demand in 2050 to be lower than 2019 levels. Under the new IHS Markit Inflections base case scenario, global refined product demand is expected to peak in 2036. MMbd), placing it below 2019 baseline levels. —Sandeep Sayal.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Outside of China, Europe and North America are the key regions developing significant lithium-ion cell production capacity. Europe now has 778 GWh of capacity in the pipeline for 2030—battery cell plants in production, under development, or planned—with North America’s pipeline currently sitting at 499 GWh.

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MARCH 22, 2022

The new model is the latest product from Geely’s decade-long 3 billion RMB (US$470-million) investment into methanol vehicle development. With methanol fuel price at Chinese pumps around 3RMB/L (€0.42/L In the face of rising global gas prices, methanol fuel offers a viable cleaner affordable alternative, Geely said.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Americans are more likely to say the US should prioritize development of energy supplies than to say it should prioritize protecting the environment, according to a recent Gallup poll. This is the first time in this question’s 10-year history that more have favored energy production over environmental protection. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 17, 2023

The final product is a chemical combination of metals and lithium which can be sold direct to battery manufacturers (ready-made) at a premium of 30%, compared to pure metals which requires further processing. The monetary value generated per ton of battery material could approach approximately $600 by as early as 2025.

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APRIL 18, 2020

IHS Markit is forecasting that global commercial vehicle production (GVW 4-8) volumes in 2020 compared to 2019 will be down 22% (more than 650,000 units) to 2.6 Most commercial vehicle factories in mainland China have returned to production. million units, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. decline in global real GDP in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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MARCH 13, 2023

While the positive price environment during the year contributed to the record earnings that we published today, our long-term view of the lithium market, the investments we made in new capacity, the risk we took and the operational success, all of that well positioned us to benefit from the market conditions seen last year.

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JUNE 26, 2013

Infiniti today announced full US pricing on the 2014 Infiniti Q50 sports sedan, which goes on sale at Infiniti retailers nationwide in early July. The Q50 Hybrid, with a starting price of US$43,950, features one of the fastest accelerating hybrid engines and fuel consumption of 36 mpg highway. The Q50 is offered in 3.7-liter

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MAY 27, 2022

The batteries come from fully and partially-electric development vehicles, test systems and production rejects and, in the future, also from end-of-life vehicles. The raw materials obtained in this way are then used in production of new battery cells for the BMW Group.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

FREYR is on track to start the initial sample production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells in its CQP in the second half of 2022. The next step will be to agree on volume and price for each raw material, after which FREYR will be in a position to issue purchase orders. Tilo Hauke, EVP of Supply Chain in FREYR.

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