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Green Mountain Power buys two electric utility trucks from Lion Electric

Charged

The bucket truck and its auxiliary systems run entirely off the vehicle’s battery pack, eliminating on-site emissions and noise pollution. Lion says its trucks deliver 60% lower maintenance costs, and 80% lower energy costs, compared to fossil-fuel vehicles. Source: Lion Electric.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged

Currently, there is no industry-wide standard to categorize, log, report or analyze charging errors and common causes of failure. We think that the battery lifecycle has to be mapped out and framed. In this case, the product is batteries. How is the battery pack designed and created? Reliability is one area.

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Embracing the suck

Envirotec Magazine

Speaking to Forbes magazine in December, Greenpeace commented that CCS compares unfavourably price-wise with investments in renewables and battery storage. The environmental group also views it as an attempt by the fossil fuel industry to maintain some degree of business-as-usual.

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? The settlers of Catan squabble over ore #172

Climate Tech VC

  In deals, ~$400M for electric scooters and 3 mega $100M+ rounds for geothermal, solid flow batteries, and rural minigrids.    In August, a company called Lithium Americas logged what it expects could be a discovery of one of the world’s largest lithium repositories on the Nevada-Oregon border.

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5 Government Initiatives from Around the World That Are Helping Reduce the Impact of Climate Change

Green Tech Challenge

India’s Plan to Promote Electric Cars The Indian government is preparing a new policy to promote the use of electric vehicles and lessen its fossil fuel consumption. For instance, the government has mandated the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) on all commercial vehicles for mainly road safety reasons.

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Why California is fighting fire with fire

Grist

Barbara got involved with the local Sierra Club chapter, and Don became executive director of the Forest Issues Group — a watchdog organization that tries to stop companies from logging and destroying habitat. Biomass logging does not prevent fires.

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Can the 150-year old London Metal Exchange broker a low-carbon future?

Business Green

The LME is the world's oldest and largest industrial metals exchange - BusinessGreen investigates how it is preparing for the battery metal goldrush and responding to calls for a more sustainable metals industry. What role do metals exchanges have in driving a sustainable transition to a low-carbon economy?

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