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Rental agency Sixt to buy 100,000 BYD EVs for European market

Charged

This is excellent news, because offering EVs to rental car customers could have a multiplier effect—who’d want to go back to their gas-burner after driving electric for a week? The deal is a big boost for BYD, which recently began selling EVs in Europe. Source: Automotive News Europe.

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World premieres VW ID. Buzz plus ID. Buzz Cargo

Green Living Guy

03/09/22 Wolfsburg/Hanover Models A Bulli for the all-electric future: World premiere of the new ID. Buzz01 Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles are giving the new VW ID. Buzz Cargo01 their world premiered in Hamburg. All with Europe’s first all-electric bus and transporter range.

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The European energy market is a ‘fudge’ says Ørsted’s Olivia Breese

Smart Energy International

The chief executive of Ørsted Europe believes that policymakers don’t know what they want from the market, with higher prices for green electrons as a result. Do they want to retain industrial demand in Europe? She believes Europe has an edge on some other markets, because of the supranational set-up. “If Do they want jobs?

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Prospective GB News Board Member is Fossil Fuel Investor

DeSmogBlog

A Conservative peer who is expected to join the board of broadcaster GB News has shares in Equinor, the oil and gas multinational behind the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea. Agnew is set to replace hedge fund millionaire Paul Marshall on the board of GB News’s parent company All Perspectives Ltd, according to Sky News.

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Will meat eaters really switch to alternative proteins?

GreenBiz

Two recent developments suggest consumers may be less willing than I’d anticipated to switch to alternative proteins, and a third piece of news confirms governments are typically unwilling to nudge them in that direction. And not just here in the land of the burger, but pretty much everywhere in the world. .

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EV charging station data provider Eco-Movement closes Series A funding round

Charged

Investors included Dutch VC firm Ponooc and Dow Jones, a well-known provider of news and business information. Many EV-related companies need accurate and complete data on public charging stations in North America and Europe. Eco-Movement, a Netherlands-based provider of EV charging station data, has closed a Series A funding round.

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Rats are more human than you think – and they certainly like being around us

Envirotec Magazine

That’s how a biologist tried to explain people’s hatred for the rodents in a television news feature about rats gnawing electrical cables in parked cars in the southern Swedish town of Malmö. Black rats, however, arrived in Europe as early as the 1st century AD. They have long been associated with dirt, death and destruction.

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