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Britishvolt Finalises Site For Britain’s First Battery Gigaplant

Britishvolt, which had signed an MOU for the country’s first Gigaplant sometime back, has finally identified a site at Blyth, Northumberland for the plant.  With an investment of 2.6 billion Euros, construction is expected to start in the second quarter of 2021. The massive plant is seen as vital to supporting the UK’s push for […]

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Husk Power 1st Minigrid Firm to Power 100 Communities, 5000 Micro-Enterprise Customers

Husk Power has achieved two industry firsts: surpassing 100 community minigrids and serving more than 5,000 micro-enterprise customers. Husk Power Systems, a leading rural energy company operating renewable minigrids in Asia and Africa, has announced that it has achieved two industry firsts: surpassing 100 community minigrids and serving more than 5,000 micro-enterprise customers. Despite the […]

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Okinawa Shifts To ‘Lithium Only’ For Its Two Wheelers

NCR based electric two-wheeler maker Okinawa Autotech private Limited (Okinawa) announced today (Thursday) that it is stopping the sale of lead-acid battery-based scooters. The company will focus only on lithium-ion battery-based variants from now on, said the firm in a statement. Incidentally, under the FAME2 guidelines for two-wheeler subsidies, electric vehicles based on lead-acid batteries […]

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Can China Become ‘Carbon Neutral’ by 2060?

Imagine China, the world’s top emitter of carbon emissions, which in 2019 released nearly double the emissions of the US which has barely any coal power plants. Now imagine it with zero gasoline-powered cars, and with more than four times the 1,200 gigawatts of solar and wind power capacity installed across the world today. This […]

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Volvo Cars to Produce of Electric Motors at its Powertrain Plant in Sweden

Volvo Cars has announced its target of producing electric motors at its powertrain plant in Skövde, Sweden. Planning to establish complete in-house E-motor production with an investment of 700 million SEK by mid-decade. The company is aiming to become a premium electric car company with 50 percent of its global sales to be fully electric […]

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STMicroelectronics to be Carbon Neutral by 2027

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced its goal to become carbon neutral by 2027, the earliest date anticipated for any semiconductor company globally. ST’s comprehensive roadmap to carbon neutrality includes two specific targets: compliance with the 1.5°C scenario defined at the Paris COP21 by 2025, which implies […]

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Andhra Pradesh Govt Discusses EV Plans With Niti Ayog

Andhra Pradesh has become the latest state to come out with an EV policy that seeks much more than more EV’s on the road by 2024.  The state’s new EV policy hopes to attract an investment of Rs 30,000 crore and create 60,000 jobs in electric vehicles (EVs) manufacturing. All this, while getting a million […]

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A Pathway Towards Hydrogen Fuel Cells In Hot, Dry Conditions

A research team formed in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; University of Stuttgart, Germany; University of New Mexico, USA; and Sandia National Laboratories, USA have developed a proton conductor for fuel cells based on polystyrene phosphonic acids that maintain high protonic conductivity up to 200o C without water. As we already know that […]

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NextEra in the US, Adani Green In India, More Similar Than They Seem

One is the market cap leader among renewable firms in India, and going by its project pipeline, a potential global leader. The other is the world’s largest solar and wind energy firm owned by investors, poised to enter the next big opportunity in electric mobility too. The renewable energy boom, when it comes in, surprised […]

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