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Umicore inaugurates CAM plant in Poland; complete battery materials value chain in Europe

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Umicore last week inaugurated its carbon-neutral production facility for cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles in Nysa, Poland. The Nysa plant is fully powered by renewable electricity from a nearby onshore wind farm, enabling Umicore’s carbon-neutral growth ambitions.

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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. Statkraft is an important player in energy trading.

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Mercedes-Benz begins construction of new €500M engine plant in Jawor, Poland

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Mercedes-Benz has started construction of its first plant in Poland. The MDC Power engine factory in Kölleda in the German federal state of Thuringia is a 100% subsidiary of Daimler AG and produces four-cylinder engines for Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG vehicles. Engine production is scheduled to commence at the new site in 2019.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Another one located in Poland will create an end-to-end carbon capture and storage chain starting from CO? captured at a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant. A third project will capture the CO?

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Estonian startup UP Catalyst secures €2.09M; sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO2

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These materials can be used in electric car batteries increasing the energy and power density, speeding up the charge rate and improving the lifetime significantly. million in grant funding secured earlier this year. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2.

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Stories From The 2023 New Mobility Congress — Day 3

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We were planning to add the stories from day 3 of the New Mobility Congress earlier, but my attention was totally absorbed with the parliamentary elections in Poland. To be perfectly clear, not just elections, but a real battle for the rule of law and democracy, which were (happy to use the past tense here) […]

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

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and is setting up a production facility in Poland for this purpose. Volkswagen already fixed an agreement with this Korean company, that only certified green power would be used to manufacture the battery cells. The plant in Zwickau is already using externally produced power from renewable sources. As a result, the ID.

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