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2023 is the year to buy an electric vehicle

Inhabitat - Innovation

Despite low sales due to supply shortages and soaring vehicle prices in 2022, electric vehicle production is set to greatly expand in 2023. In order to do that, new laws, including the Inflation Reduction Act, incentivize companies to produce EVs and all their components in the U.S.

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Breaking Down Electric Vehicle Funding in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Energy Central

trillion in funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) contains substantial opportunities for innovators, cleantech businesses, community organizations, and local governments across the U.S. Our first entry into the Breaking Down the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law blog series provided an overview of.

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Partnership to create first end-of-life supply chain for electric car batteries

Envirotec Magazine

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries.

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Biden administration announces ‘largest ever’ investment in US electric grid

The Verge: Energy

billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the grid. The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go to 58 different projects across 44 states. . | Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg via Getty Images The Biden administration announced $3.46

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Government must provide the regulatory support to amplify transformative innovation from the intersections of converging exponential technologies.

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Built environment tool to help with drawing up legal contracts

Envirotec Magazine

It helps drafters to find climate clauses and sustainability solutions that can be applied throughout the entire building lifecycle, according to the collaborating partners behind it, UK law firm TLT and The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). TCLP publishes a breadth of freely available precedent clauses for use with a variety of sector contracts.

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California’s electric truck mandates pose challenges—and opportunities—for small fleets

Charged

Diesel-powered trucks are an endangered species in California—assuming that existing laws stand, all trucks in use in the state must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2042, and interim targets will start to bite much sooner. The designers of California incentive programs have tried to mitigate the shock of going electric for small fleets.