Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tesla’s co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 09/02/2020 – 01:30 This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse.

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Charged

AUGUST 3, 2021

generation liquid electrolytes, lithium-sulfur and lithium-air battery cells, high power density inverters and energy-efficient mobility systems technologies. The full list of the projects describes the research goals and lists the federal funding amounts. Research areas include next?generation

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Update from BloombergNEF reveals battery pack prices have plummeted from $1,100 per kWh in 2010 to $137 per kWh in 2020, powered by soaring EV sales, cheaper materials, and manufacturing and tech innovation.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 2, 2020

The world is in transition between a lead-acid battery past, and a future in which lithium-ion batteries are poised to supplant lead-acid batteries and to displace increasing volumes of transportation fuels. Today’s article explores the impact the pandemic is having on the battery sector. Industry Experts Weigh In.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

The government has today announced fresh funding for the green transport sector, providing a multi-million pound boost to support the switch to zero emission bus fleets and accelerate the development of innovative battery and hydrogen technologies. Meanwhile, the government-backed Faraday Institution announced it had secured £22.6m

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly. The post Perfecting the EV Battery Recycling Process appeared first on Green Living Guy. That’s according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an optimized recycling process.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Plus EU beats renewables target, Shell faces CCS concerns, New Zealand's first electric ferry and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Rio Tinto lithium mining license revoked in Serbia. The cost of charging the vessel's batteries is also significantly less than filling it up with diesel.".

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Grid modernisation initiatives, including the movement to new technologies such as smart grids, are spurring the demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to latest research from Research and Markets. billion by 2026. The report finds that the BESS market in the US is currently estimated at $1.3

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Machine learning based battery charging protocols, propane as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly coolant for space cooling, the remotely controlled Robobug and a new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a zero emission luxury catamaran are on the technology radar.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 4, 2022

Of the two, transportation is expected to register higher growth owing to soaring sales of battery-operated electric vehicles, which help to keep vehicular pollution in check, and expanding railway networks. Vehicle pollution as a market driver. Vehicle pollution as a market driver.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

As more and more governments and auto manufacturers set their sights on a net zero emission future for road transport, the outlook for electric vehicles (EVs) looks brighter than ever. Battery recycling is mission critical.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Plastics recycling, especially for mixed and contaminated plastics, remains a major pollution concern. At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries).

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. The why: With demand for lithium growing twice as fast as production, the U.S. Of the $12.5M

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

He shared what policies the countries with the highest rates of electric vehicle adoption have in common, including not just EV incentives, but also costly taxes on internal combustion vehicles. Norway, the leader in EV adoption, also offers discounted tolls and parking to EV owners and has high gas prices, Robinson said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

These changes could allow the bank to lend money towards not only supporting some of the world's least developed countries, but increasingly also to highly-polluting middle-income locations, using climate vulnerability as a key consideration in its borrowing criteria, according to the news site.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Unfortunately, our current transportation systems don’t seem to have a path to a pollution-free world. In fact, the transportation sector remains to be one of the most polluting bodies we have right now. Electric vehicles such as cars and buses cover longer distances with little-to-no carbon emissions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Energy (US DOE) has published the results of a study done by the Lawrence Berkey National Laboratory quantifying the domestic lithium resources from the geothermal brine in the Salton Sea region in California. resource of lithium due to the brine-hosted lithium in the deep subsurface geothermal reservoir.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Also, while money has poured in across the climate tech sector and across stages, the figures tend to be distorted by the mammoth late stage funding, especially those going to electric vehicle companies (much as it was a couple years ago with funding to scooter/ micromobility companies).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Within their small cases, disposable vapes house a heating element, a microprocessor and a battery, plus a cartridge for the liquid. In addition, a lot of these complex chemicals will be classified as persistent organic pollutants. It is very important to consider the batteries used in disposable vapes.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. China has also contributed to price declines in wind turbines and lithium-ion batteries. China is also an unparalleled world leader in electric buses.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A new book argues that while demand for new electric vehicles will soar, the long life of existing cars means it could take decades to dislodge petrol and diesel fuel infrastructure. But at the same time, the study reinforces the growing consensus that EVs will increasingly dominate the market for new cars from the 2020s onwards.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Gasoline-burning vehicles have created enormous environmental problems, and they continue to pollute the air. But electric vehicles can help provide solutions for these problems. One brand bringing new designs to the electric moped world is CAKE, and its new Makka model is one you have to check out.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

BusinessGreen sits down with CEO of the International Council of Mining and Minerals to discuss the battery gold rush and the potential for a European sustainable mining boom. For example, various small-scale lithium extraction projects are underway in Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

Beyond just renewable power, Canada’s clean energy sector is made up of companies and jobs that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption in transportation, buildings, and industry, or making low-carbon technologies. Already, 127 countries —including the U.S

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not everyone is tracking the cost curves of lithium ion batteries or the deployment rates of solar panels. It’s no secret that many of Canada’s biggest industries are also Canada’s biggest polluters, from oil and gas to steel and cement. But cutting pollution doesn’t mean cutting jobs and opportunities.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Both Rio Tinto and Glencore are expected to unveil new targets this year.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 7, 2024

  Though battery electric vehicles (EVs) are meant to help in the global strategy to fight climate change , there has yet to be a system in place to deal with them as they enter that already overwhelmed recycling stream. How can hydrogen fuel cells help with battery e-waste?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Since the introduction of the initial Tesla electric vehicle (EV), consumers have sought accurate information regarding the total carbon footprint of EVs as they compare to traditional internal combustion engines (ICEs). We know Elon Musk’s Tesla vehicles create less pollution out of the tailpipe, but what about those batteries?

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Many of us possess multiple electrical appliances, especially mobile phones, tablets and laptops, too many previous models of which gather dust in bottom drawers. The scourge of pollution coursing through the nation's waterways is shameful.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Electrifying these commercial vehicles will be potentially even more important than passenger vehicles for reducing carbon emissions and for cleaning up local air pollution. Battery-powered commercial vehicles also highlight the power of the lithium-ion battery in a unique way. Electric Vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Their concern is that in stirring up the ocean floor, the mining companies will release carbon into the environment, undercutting some of the very benefits intended by switching to electric cars, wind turbines and long-life batteries. “By We don’t need to build batteries with either nickel or cobalt.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been one of the biggest success stories of the burgeoning net zero transition so far, having now decisively shot into the mainstream after doubling their market share to 8.3 per cent worldwide off the back of 6.75 million global sales last year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Covid-19 could turbocharge the construction sector's adoption of electrified equipment in order to cut carbon and pollution, according to industry-backed report. With grid connections required to charge electric vehicles in short supply, planners can plot their construction hubs accordingly.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

This can be done in ways that leverage the oilpatch’s core competencies (drilling, petrochemistry) toward new products, from carbon fibre to lithium to hydrogen. In other words, governments should aim stimulus at the economy they want: one with less pollution and more resilience. The good news?

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

The analysis stresses that demand for clean power is outstripping additions of solar, wind and hydro as the electric vehicle transition gathers pace and energy-intensive data centres multiply around world.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, came out of stealth mode last year, and announced that it is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada. In July, it raised $700 million in new investment.

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