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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

Baua Electric

sources of the key electric vehicle battery metal, although key financing and local regulatory challenges remain. Piedmont must still obtain a local zoning variance and financing for the project, estimated to cost more than USD 1 billion. Low lithium prices may also hobble Piedmont’s financing attempts, analysts said.

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Aptera’s brand ambassador program is very on character

Teslarati

Micheal is a bit of a renaissance man; author, movie producer, and self-described preacher of the gospel of the longboard, Daniel is a vacation property owner in the Caribbean, Lauren is a successful MBA who has worked in a series of startups, and Shine is a recent US immigrant from Ghana who works in finance for startup businesses.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Green Car Congress

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week.

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