Charged

AUGUST 7, 2022

Unless our country makes an unexpected political about-face, we’re likely to continue falling farther and farther behind Europe (where BEVs account for over 10% of the market) and China (20%). On the supply side, shortages of semiconductors and soaring prices for lithium and other raw materials are holding back sales.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. million EVs by 2030, or about 20 percent of all vehicles in its service territory today.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Gridlock is still a problem, but there is optimism as climate has risen in the US to become a top-tier political issue (as it is already in western Europe). A $200 million investment in an autonomous electric vehicle is not that relevant for someone trying to raise a million to develop sustainable plastics.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Political opponents branded the move as further evidence that a government with laissez faire instincts remained temperamentally opposed to proactive industrial strategy. Business groups lamented a "frustrating" and "harsh" decision.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 8, 2023

This may fall on deaf ears in the throes of a provincial election, but political leaders aren’t judged by their talking points of the day. Our lithium shouldn’t merely be exported, for example. Instead, they’re judged on where they succeeded, or failed, to prepare for a foreseeable future. And this one is very foreseeable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

And the political challenge of building public support for what is set to be the biggest and fastest industrial revolution in history. But political and corporate understanding of supply chain risks often remains patchy at best. The skills challenge of developing a workforce capable of installing and operating them.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Other green efforts in the strategy include lowering taxes on renewables, rolling out heat pumps and district energy systems, installing electric vehicle charge points, and supporting efforts to decarbonise heavy industry.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dylan White , and Sam Wong As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to gain shares in the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing market is intensifying, with global sales of EVs rising 31% in 2023. [1] Katz , Qingyi Pan , Rob Thompson , J. Entity A is likely not a FEOC. Scenario 2.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence Electric Vehicle Adoption | Investor Climate Initiatives Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Their takeaways?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. One in five is Black.

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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 6, 2021

Electric Vehicle Supply Chains Are Stretching in Different Directions at the Same Time There are currently major and complex things happening in the electric vehicle industry. At the same time, newer, smaller firms are choosing to leverage contract manufacturers to assemble their vehicles. What’s going on here?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At the same time there are legitimate concerns the scramble for limited reserves of lithium, cobalt, and other rare-earth minerals critical for renewables and electric vehicles (EVs) could turn nasty, as has been the case with resource rushes throughout history. How will they react as their main revenue streams are curtailed?

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Nikola , Fisker , Lordstown Motors are three electric vehicle companies.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Electric vehicle makers and battery manufacturers are making progress in developing new lithium-ion designs, amid persistent concerns over the supply of key materials. Foremost among these formulations is a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode chemistry with eight parts of nickel for each part of cobalt.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 16, 2021

Political leaders don’t like to depend on other countries for their energy supplies, but this is frequently an accepted trade-off due to economic considerations. . At the same time, many of these countries are understandably sensitive about energy security. fracking boom somewhat weakened its monopoly. supply chains more resilient.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

A category of metals that play an essential role in technologies ranging from smartphones to wind turbines to electric vehicle motors, rare earths are currently mined only at a single site in the United States. Geological Survey, or USGS, announced the discovery of rocks that are rich in rare earth elements near Pennington Mountain.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We also have the sixth-largest proven reserves of lithium in the world, as well as significant amounts of other minerals that are critical in battery cell production, like nickel and cobalt. We struggle to mine and refine lithium because most of our reserves are found in hard rock, and are often located in remote areas, inaccessible by road.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Afrivolt is developing Africa’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility with a 5GWh installed capacity. Mitigating cost through partnerships Setting up a battery precursor facility is costly and one panellist who knows about that risk is Deshan Naidoo, managing director of Afrivolt.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. One in five is Black.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

True, Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers aren't without challenges, Andrew Poreda, senior ESG research analyst at Austin-based Sage Advisory Services, pointed out in an email. He noted that lithium, cobalt and nickel supply chains have human capital issues.

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Charged

MAY 26, 2020

For those in the electric-car world, the question is more pointed: Will the pandemic hurt the growth of electric vehicles over the next year? A few pessimists suggest that low gas prices will slash consumer purchases of plug-in vehicles, just as hybrid sales vary directly with the cost of gasoline. Three years?

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Grist

JUNE 30, 2021

The electric vehicle or EV revolution owes its existence to lithium batteries, and those batteries have a cocktail of specialized minerals to thank for their high performance. meet its climate targets. Batteries that don’t contain cobalt or nickel already exist, but there are tradeoffs. degrees Fahrenheit). In the U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This month, we’re talking about partnerships between automakers and electric vehicle charging companies, the recent rolling blackouts in California, and why cleantech investing today may fare better than a decade ago. Credit: GM Authority Automakers Paying for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure?—?Fool’s

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. Even if every new car was electric from now on, analysts say it would take 15 years to overhaul the so-called global car park, which now numbers some 1.3 billion vehicles. (X) The German auto industry seems to disagree however.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Senate Democrats’ heroic rescue and rebranding of President Joe Biden ’s proposed Build Back Better Act is ripped from the pages of a political thriller. The bill includes support for the domestic manufacturing of key aspects of the clean energy transition, including solar panels, batteries and heat pumps.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 21, 2021

Amid renewed national ambitions to tackle climate change, electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as a promising way to reduce emissions in the transportation sector, which accounts for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions. Battery Supply Chain: Most electric vehicles run on lithium batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

And the political will toward climate mitigation is growing rapidly in many places, even if the U.S. BloombergNEF projects the global lithium-ion battery storage market to grow by a factor of four by 2030, increasing to almost $120 billion annually. But many markets around the world have barely begun to install solar.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

  In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   The dissociation follows anti-ESG political pressure in the US  in recent years.    Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 28, 2024

President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Invests in Projects That Will Reduce Costs for Consumer Battery Recycling, Making EVs More Affordable and Boosting Our Domestic Supply Chains WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $62 million for 17 projects.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 25, 2024

With demand for lithium rising along with the adoption of EVs, the Salton Sea's potential for lithium production means there's more reason to keep it from drying up. The post How EVs Are Helping Fix Up The Salton Sea appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When the Democrat-controlled US Congress and President Joe Biden extended the federal tax credit for electric vehicles a couple of. continued] The post Will New Tesla Model 3 Become Eligible for $7,500 Tax Credit Again? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 29, 2024

Selected projects will focus on manufacturing process improvement for cost reduction and performance improvement for emerging battery technologies The U.S. Department. continued] The post U.S. DOE Announces Funding Opportunity to Advance Domestic Manufacturing of Next Generation Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Lawmakers are right to ensure electric cars are made in the EU — and not only by European companies 2023. continued] The post Protecting European Auto (& Battery) Jobs — Finally EU Priority appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For this weekly newsletter, I’m highlighting 11 core stories that I think stand out above the rest. We cover so. continued] The post 11 Top Cleantech Stories of the Week appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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