Charged

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A big chunk of the money—$60 million—will go to the United States Advanced Battery Consortium to further develop pre-competitive vehicle-related battery R&D. Focus areas include EV batteries using abundant and domestically available battery materials and more cost-efficient battery recycling processes.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 13, 2023

Electric vehicles now make up 9% of new car sales in Canada. and Quebec, the market share is even higher, with electric vehicles making up around 20% and 14% of new cars sold in each province, respectively. Canada’s electricity grid is currently 84% non-emitting.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For first time, IEA forecasts global demand for fossil fuels will soon peak in all its scenarios as EV sales rise and the shift to wind and solar accelerates. The post “Curtain call” for fossil fuels: IEA says Ukraine war locks in shift to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While electric vehicle sales continue to rise worldwide, automotive supply chains are lagging behind the required pace of decarbonisation, according to a new report from Greenpeace Asia. Industry leaders like Toyota and Hyundai continue to flood the roads with combustion engine vehicles and a growing number of SUVs.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transport is at a crossroads as we move away from filling our tanks with liquid fossil fuels and powering them up from battery charging points. However, the lithium-ion batteries that displaced those tanks have a finite lifespan and must be replaced when their recharge capacity falls below a usable level.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 16, 2021

VANCOUVER — As jobs in fossil fuels decline amid a shifting global landscape, rapid growth in Canada’s clean energy sector will more than make up the difference. At the same time, Canada’s fossil fuel sector will see a 9% drop in employment. The clean energy sector’s GDP is forecast to grow 58% by 2030.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the cost of gas has been steadily rising for more than a week in many states, those who want to avoid exorbitant gasoline prices altogether may be considering alternative transportation options — such as electric vehicles (EVs). Over time, EV batteries will slowly lose their capacity. The Environmental Concerns Involved.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Transition to electric vehicles now 'inevitable' in UK and much of Europe thanks to declining upfront costs, major new study finds. It is our common responsibility to ensure that everyone in Europe, wherever they live, can switch to electric vehicles as early as they want.".

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

In an exclusive interview with CarbonScape’s Oliver Foster, Yusuf Latief discusses the company’s success to date and what their alternative to graphite signals for the battery market going forward. Graphite is the largest component of lithium-ion batteries, comprising half its weight. Elon Musk did.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Ursula von der Leyen sets out plans to mandate revenue cap on electricity generators and secure a 'crisis contribution' from fossil fuel companies in her State of the European Union address. We are in a fossil fuel crisis, the fossil fuel industry has a special duty too," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Challenges caused by EV battery production 'pale in comparison' to environmental toll of fossil fuel vehicles, Transport & Environment study finds. Over its lifetime, an average fossil fuel car burns the equivalent of a stack of oil barrels, 25 storeys high.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 21, 2023

million job decline in fossil fuels in this scenario (the world will want a lot less oil and gas), this is far exceeded by the 2.2-million Between 2025 and 2050, there would be 419,000 clean energy jobs added in the province, significantly more than the 324,000 job decline expected in fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

New research has found that solid state batteries can reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle (EV) batteries by almost two-fifths – further increasing EVs’ advantage over fossil fuel vehicles.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

By Rebecca Rasch , Social Scientist at Aspen Global Change Institute Electric vehicle charging by Zaptec via Unsplash. While electric vehicles (EVs) are not a panacea for reducing emissions from the transportation sector, widespread adoption can be a significant step toward meeting CO2 reduction targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx reviews highlights from a new report on an emerging sector Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia. Construction is scheduled to commence in Q3 of this year.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

The plan includes a $2 billion investment across electric vehicles, clean energy for operations and a new academic center with Yale focused on capturing carbon. That fuel also accounts for 6 percent of its annual operating budget. Swapping all that diesel and jet fuel with batteries and biofuels won't be easy.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

Electric vehicles (EVs) will dominate the world's roads by mid-century, accounting for 56 per cent of all vehicle sales, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. In Q1 2021 alone, electric vehicle sales rocketed to almost 550,000, which represents a 66 per cent increase over the same period last year," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Toyota has today announced wide-ranging new plans to invest 4tr yen ($35bn) to develop a line-up of at least 30 battery electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. Announcing the new strategy this morning, Toyota President Akio Toyoda said the company was aiming to deliver total global battery electric vehicle sales of 3.5

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image: Redwood Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. The decommissioning recently wrapped and the batteries are now being transported to the company’s facility in north Nevada for recycling. That project was a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13MW SolarCity solar farm.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 12, 2021

Proterra, builder of electric buses, heavy-duty vehicle drivetrains, batteries and charging systems, plans to go public on the NASDAQ exchange via merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the latest in a string of EV companies seeking access to public market financing to meet growing demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

The number of battery electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the UK is likely to double in 2022, potentially taking a 15 per cent share of the total new car market by the end of the year, analysts have predicted. The industry body has yet to publish sales figures covering all 12 months of 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Hyundai has become the latest carmaker to accelerate its electric vehicle (EV) ambitions, yesterday unveiling fresh plans to add another 17 new battery car models to its line up by the end of the decade, backed by £12bn of investment. From 2025, all new Genesis models will be electric, it said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The UK car market has ended five months of decline largely thanks to soaring sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs), which accounted for almost one in seven new cars to hit the road during August, the latest official industry figures have confirmed. It means battery EVs took an overall 14.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Electric vehicle market goes from strength to strength even despite Covid-19 pandemic, with UK sales making up more than one in ten new car registrations in 2020. Together, battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles accounted for more than one in 10 new car sales in the UK last year, a huge leap from around one in 30 in 2019.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Plans for a major electric vehicle (EV) charging "superhub" in Oxford capable of delivering up to 300 miles of range to cars in less than 20 mins have been unveiled today, marking the latest milestone for what is set to become a network of 40 similar sites across the UK. "Our The research company said more than 2.7

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Research by Transport & Environment assessed road CO2 as well as impact of electricity, battery production and power plant construction. If European governments are serious about decarbonising during the crisis recovery, they must speed up the transition to electric vehicles.".

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Charged

APRIL 11, 2022

The deadline for banning the sale of internal combustion vehicles in various countries throughout the world has been announced one by one, and the completion of net-zero carbon emissions are rapidly approaching. It is critical to reduce reliance on fossil fuels as quickly as possible and promote electrification.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Advanced Propulsion Centre backs new wave of electric car, van, and battery projects, as agency predicts UK automotive sector is on 'the precipice of an innovation landslide'. of government funding awarded yesterday, with 10 multi-million pound grants announced in support of a range of innovative new zero emission vehicle technologies.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

As the global Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery market is forecast to grow from $57.4 Additionally, the increasing costs of fossil fuels and gas have triggered significant adoption of electrical automobiles, propelling market enlargement. billion in 2023 to $120.65

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2021

Results of world’s largest V2G trial suggest EV drivers can save £725 off annual electricity bills - but steep hardware costs remain major barrier to mass adoption. We hope this trial acts as a blueprint for wider adoption to ensure we collectively unlock the huge environmental opportunity that electric vehicles offer.".

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Green day was supposed to be an opportunity to get back in the green race, but this is just supporting [fossil fuel] lobbies." The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Partnership will implement “the UK’s biggest Virtual Power Plant” Energy company SSE and electric vehicle (EV) smart charging service provider Jedlix have signed a deal that they say will deliver grid balancing services from EVs, harnessing smart charging technology to better manage grid supply and demand.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. Previous high oil and gas price cycles have driven consumers to purchase more efficient cars and better insulate their homes, while the business community found ways to use less fossil fuel. And the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

Oxford City Council, Pivot Power, Fastned, Tesla Superchargers and Wenea have opened what is touted to be Europe’s most powerful electric vehicle (EV) charging hub alongside a new hybrid battery, marking the completion for Energy Superhub Oxford. Hybrid Energy Battery Storage System.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

YouGov research commissioned by energy company ScottishPower seems to have found that only one in five (20%) of the nation’s small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have invested in green energy solutions including solar panels, battery storage, heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to go from strength to strength in the UK, hoovering up a near 18 per cent share of the entire car market last month, according to the latest figures released today by trade association SMMT show. But trade body SMMT warns pace of chargepoint rollout continues to lag behind growing demand from EVs.

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