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

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

There's the technological challenge of developing the products and services necessary to decarbonise. 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.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

"By this, we mean that policies should enable companies and sectors to cooperate through trading policies, including use of natural climate solutions and a wide range of technological removals.". How will the statement impact on the Minerals Council's public advice to put policies in place to allow investors to invest in new technologies?".

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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. I cannot understand why they think that is sound business.

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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. LinkedIn | Company profile. One in five is Black.

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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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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

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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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. There’s clearly a lot of excitement about the electric vehicle space.

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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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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. Huawei in the Spotlight.

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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.

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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. The key is partnerships, he said.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Canada has big ambitions to build one of the world’s powerhouse supply chains for EV and battery technology. 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. It’s backed by $3.8

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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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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. We’ll also touch on some of the recent cleantech investment, policy, and technology news, and more.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. 7) (7) True as that may be, most coal-based technologies have disappeared. The steam-train for instance has been swiftly replaced by electric or diesel. billion vehicles. (X) They consume approximately 14.5%

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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. billion to install “advanced industrial technology” in steel, cement and other industrial facilities. Canada’s battery mineral production just needs to pick up the pace.

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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

This annual update will focus on solar power, battery storage, EVs and self-driving technology. A very encouraging trend is the breakdown of total new electricity generation installations, with 75 percent of all new global electricity generation now coming from renewables — and solar is the dominant technology.

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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.   Recent regulations have driven investment in space, air, and ground-based monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technologies.    Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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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

JULY 26, 2023

Offices: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies (AMMTO) and the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) Funding Amount: $10.9 million for 10 projects across nine states that will advance innovative technologies to extract and convert battery-grade lithium from geothermal brine sources in the United States. […]

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 13, 2023

President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Invests in R&D to Lower Costs of Consumer Battery Recycling That Will Support a Strong Domestic Critical Materials Supply Chain

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 30, 2023

The dominance of China in the EV battery supply chain has raised concerns about the geopolitical risks associated with the reliance on one country for essential minerals and battery technology.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 16, 2023

T&E welcomes self-sufficiency targets for battery raw materials and production goals for clean tech. The EU today unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that it fears are luring European cleantech companies to North America.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 13, 2022

New Factories in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan Will Create More than 11,000 Good-Paying Jobs and Reduce the Nation’s Reliance on Other Countries to Meet Increased Demand for Electric Vehicle Technologies .

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Electric vehicle makers in the US may struggle to qualify their customers for a federal tax credit under new rules set by the Inflation Reduction Act. Topping the list is a supply chain makeover focusing on domestic sources. That could mean a new market for halloysite, and if you don’t know what that is, we’re […].

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 31, 2022

DOE Seeks Public Input on Critical Materials Research Program to Strengthen Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing in America.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 30, 2022

As this piece at Quartz points out, China’s grip on the minerals that drive not only clean technologies, but other important things like medical imaging, came to a head for Japan in 2010. Rare earth minerals and other battery materials are shaping up to be very important on the geopolitical stage. China was able to […].

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CleanTechnica

MAY 18, 2022

Founded in 2020, the podcast covers topics such as economics, technology, politics, and even poker. […]. Elon Musk was a guest at the All-In Summit 2022 held by All-In Podcast hosts Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, and David Sacks.

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