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Copper use in vehicle wiring harnesses expected to surge

Charged

In the medium term, hybrids will add the most copper, while battery-electric vehicles will require more copper in the longer term (2030 and beyond). The amount of copper used per vehicle varies widely by region – from an average of 8.9 kg in South America to 17.6 kg in North America.

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Honda announces new EV division

Business Green

The car maker has this week unveiled a new arm of its business which will be solely focused on EV production and strategy Japanese auto giant Honda has announced it is creating a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) division to help drive efforts to deliver on its ambition to become carbon neutral by 2050.

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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Other partners are using the same underlying open-source architecture to certify renewable energy credits in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, he said. ” With NV Energy, “it’s about making it ultra, ultra cheap and trustworthy for solar systems producing energy credits,” he said.

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Smart energy benefits the people, and those who deliver it

Smart Energy International

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Likewise, we can save water by monitoring and tackling leaks as they occur. We can also find water to recycle that was previously disposed of.

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

In Europe, with Germany being the classic case, we have a feed-in tariff that is set for geothermal that makes it profitable to develop and operate geothermal projects. Global LCOE from newly commissioned, utility-scale renewable power technologies, 2021-2022 (source: IRENA) The drive for electrification includes electric vehicles.

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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C

The City Fix

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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World Energy Storage Day: a global platform for the energy industry’s potential

Smart Energy International

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. Some regions have emerged as global leaders like the US.

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