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Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date

GreenBiz

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date. German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. However, those were internal combustion vehicles.

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China is leading the race to recycle batteries

Envirotec Magazine

It concludes that China will achieve this first, followed by Europe and the US. In detail, the results show that China is expected to be able to employ recycling to meet its own demand for primary lithium for electric vehicles, obtained through mining, from 2059 onwards; in Europe and the US, this will not happen until after 2070.

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UK sees 70% rise in public charge-points for electric vehicles over the past year??????

Envirotec Magazine

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) on the road, having seen a remarkable 70% jump in charge points over the past year, figures that seem to demonstrate the substantial impact of the government’s ongoing efforts to expand the charging infrastructure network. The UK now has one publicly accessible charge point for every 11.2

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Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

GreenBiz

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the "energies pond." Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00.

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Electric vehicles balance the grid in UK for first time

Smart Energy International

Electric cars are balancing supply and demand on the UK power grid for the first time in a trial hosted by National Grid ESO and Octopus Energy. This industry-wide trial will provide valuable information to our control room, to help enable the full time availability of electric vehicles in the Balancing Mechanism in future.”

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Media Brief: Countering common myths about electric vehicles

Clean Energy Canada

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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Demand side flexibility in Europe: 130-164GW by 2030

Smart Energy International

New modelling from smartEN (Smart Energy Europe) and DNV suggests huge scale potential from flexibility for consumers and the clean energy transition. In this context demand side flexibility encompasses flexibility from buildings, electric vehicles and industry. Enabling 60GW of demand side flexibility would save €2.7

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