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Plus Power Breaks Open New England Market for Massive Batteries

GreenTechMedia

That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. Batteries don't consume gas, nor do they emit pollution onsite or require water for cooling. Those structural conditions create an opening for battery plants to excel, Keefe argued.

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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

Arrival is arguably the biggest success story in modern UK automotive industry. This approach, it claims, will allow it to sell zero emission vans and buses at the same sticker price as fossil fuel vehicles, removing one of the major barriers that has long prevented fleet operators from embracing zero emission models at scale.

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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

Arrival is arguably the biggest success story in modern UK automotive industry. This approach, it claims, will allow it to sell zero emission vans and buses at the same sticker price as fossil fuel vehicles, removing one of the major barriers that has long prevented fleet operators from embracing zero emission models at scale.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged

Pretty much nothing that was designed for automotive really works, so in order to make competitive products you have to redo all that. Aviation is a very different use case compared to automotive in terms of how power is used, what kind of cooling capabilities you have, and what kind of environments you’re operating in.

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Bearing and seal maker shares net-zero manufacturing journey

Envirotec Magazine

Many of our customers – such as those in the automotive sector – increasingly demand components and materials with much lower embodied carbon. Here, hydrogen replaces fossil fuels used in conventional reduction processes. Another challenge is to find alternatives to the fossil fuels used directly in operations.

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? Big oil’s big CCS play #158

Climate Tech VC

CCS is basically the only path for an O&G company to decarbonize while continuing its fossil fuels business. ⚡ Go Eve , a London, UK-based rapid EV charging provider, raised $4M in Seed funding from The Pearl Family Office, Carter Gem, Automotive Ventures, Kero Development Partners and Cur8 Capital. Oppenheimer II?

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Hydrogen fuel cells good or bad for the environment?

AGreenLiving

These researchers theorized that oxidized hydrogen would cool the stratosphere and make more clouds, adversely affecting the polar vortex and increasing the holes in the ozone layer. But let’s say the production, storage and transportation problems could be overcome and hydrogen’s efficiency safely tapped into.