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New sparks for the electric vehicle industry

GreenBiz

New sparks for the electric vehicle industry. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) was intensifying. . With a growing unease in taking public transportation, the demand for electric bikes and cars is also skyrocketing. . In June, Lyft announced that every vehicle on its platform will be electric by 2030. Electric Vehicles.

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Lithium battery industry presents opportunities for water treatment experts

Envirotec Magazine

The lithium battery economy, driven largely by the growing electrical vehicle market, presents opportunities for water and wastewater businesses across the value chain, according to a new report from BlueTech Research. Battery recycling is beginning to have significant growth as electric vehicles reach the end of their service life.

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Toshiba and partners testing electric buses with rapid pantograph charging system

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Multinational electronics company Toshiba is partnering with Japanese bus operator Rinko Bus and Swiss electric bus equipment manufacturer Drive Electro Technology on a demonstration project to test the effectiveness of a rapid-charging battery powered by a pantograph to charge an electric bus in 10 minutes. Source: Toshiba

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Researchers develop metric to measure US gaps in electric vehicle charging

TechXplore

Although electric vehicles (EVs) present a considerable opportunity to lower greenhouse gas emissions, EVs currently only account for 1% of vehicles on the road in the U.S.

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CIRCUL-A-THON finalists present solutions for transport, electronics, packaging and healthcare

Envirotec Magazine

Hungry on energy, materials and manpower, vehicle manufacturing presents a formidable appetite for new ideas that will reduce waste, and winners in the ‘transportation’ category showcased some of the latest thinking along these lines. The finalist here was a pair of 3D-printed headphones.

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Microgrids enable cost and price flexibility for charging electric trucks

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Yes, charging large numbers of electric trucks requires lots of poweras the anti-EV community often reminds us, an electrified truck depot might use as much power as a sports stadium. Barnard and Ghatikar present a hypothetical microgrid setup for a large heavy-duty truck stop. Diesel fuel is a commoditized product.

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Inside the new $100 million women-led climate tech fund

GreenBiz

The fund is led by managing partners Sierra Peterson and Sarah Sclarsic and supported a suite of investors and partners across the corporate, climate tech and environmental worlds including past or present CEOs of General Electric, Lyft and Shopify.