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Elon Musk provides critical context on hotly-debated “emerald mine” story

Teslarati

As per the Community Note, which has since disappeared from the post, the post was reportedly “misleading” because Musk “was born into an extremely wealthy family in South Africa.” We all worked, were happy and optimistic.

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GE to expand sodium-halide battery plant with $70M investment

Green Car Congress

GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. The battery plant has received support from state and local government in New York, where GE has done business for 130 years.

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The Future of Electric Cars Could Lie in.Afghanistan?

All Cars Electric

Today's sources of lithium are far and few: Bolivia has something like 40 percent of the world's deposits, while Russia, South Africa, Chile and Argentina have some. This weekend, the New York Times reported that the war-ravaged country.

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Mascoma Acquires SunOpta BioProcess Inc.; Integrated Cellulosic Ethanol Company

Green Car Congress

Both SBI and Mascoma say they have made significant progress towards commercialization and collectively have development partners in the US, Canada, China, Brazil and South Africa, all of which will benefit from the combination.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

Charged EVs

The testers conducted nearly 150 tests at 28 stations (4 each from 7 different networks) in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The goal was to bring you a comparison of the charging industry’s best efforts: a search for the best user experience currently available.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

Cars That Think

When Omicron, the now ubiquitous COVID-19 variant, first emerged in South Africa in November, scientists were immediately worried. Seattle would land in one corner, New York in another corner, Dallas would fall in between those two and lower down, and so on.

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Tata Takes On Air

Plug In Partners

Nègre has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa. However, that does not mean the Air car (watch video) is confined to the sub-continent. And this isn't the last we'll hear of the technology.