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Tech Companies Downshift Ambitions for Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

GreenTechMedia

Technology companies continued to curb their ambitions for manufacturing electric vehicles in 2019. At one point, Apple was reportedly planning to launch an electric vehicle by 2019 , but after much hype around its secretive initiative called Project Titan, the iPhone maker shifted gears on EVs several years ago.

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David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC

GreenBiz

Crane was instrumental in leading NRG into renewables and other clean energy sectors and was ousted in late 2015 after its stock tanked. Last week, former NRG Energy CEO David Crane joined the frenzy. . Disclosure: Crane is a former GreenBiz editor at large, and you can read his body of work here.)

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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

GreenBiz

That commitment also includes buying 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, and using 100 percent clean energy by 2025. . But the business of biofuels is a bit messier and — for bio jet fuel — at an earlier stage than procuring solar and wind energy or even purchasing electric vehicles. .

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Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

GreenBiz

Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the "energies pond." Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Optimal Electric Vehicles introduces the S1LF Low-Floor Shuttle Bus, featuring batteries from Proterra

Charged

The company’s Engineering group has focused on EV system design since 2015. Now Optimal Electric Vehicles, a derivative firm, has joined the EV manufacturing game with its new electric S1LF Low-Floor Shuttle Bus. The S1LF is the first of several planned commercial electric vehicles from Optimal-EV.

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Raring to go: Researchers hail 'S curve' trajectory of electric vehicle market

Business Green

Current rates of deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) are consistent with 'S curve' shaped adoption dynamics that suggest the automotive sector could ultimately reach benchmarks consistent with global climate goals if policymakers take action to sustain recent growth trends.

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WoodMac: A New Battery Chemistry Will Lead the Stationary Energy Storage Market by 2030

GreenTechMedia

As demand from electric vehicles and the stationary storage market both skyrocket this decade, evolving performance priorities will create a divergence between the types of batteries used for storage and those used for EV applications. Two markets, two sets of priorities.

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