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US private equity giant Blackstone has recently announced that it has bought some property in Cambois, Northumberland, which investors had once expected would be used to build Britain’s first electric vehicle (EV) battery gigafactory. Britishvolt, a UK lithium-ion battery manufacturing start-up, backed by mining heavyweight Glencore, was supposed to take over this particular piece of land, in order to build a £3.8 billion (€4.45 billion) gigafactory. However, in January 2023, before the company could fulfil these ambitious plans, it went into administration. This led to over 200 employees bein...
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Deep in the Arizona desert, a Danish company is building a massive solar farm that includes batteries that charge when the sun is shining and supply energy back to the electric grid when it's not. “Solar farms only produce when the sun shines, and the turbines only produce when the wind blows,” said Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper. “For us to maximise the availability of the green power, 24-7, we have to store some of it too.” Back in Arizona, Ørsted’s Eleven Mile Solar Center covers 2,000 acres in rural Pinal County. It has 857,000 solar panels and more than 2,000 cubes that look like large shipping c...
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A huge sand battery is set to slash the carbon emissions of a Finnish town. The industrial-scale storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world’s biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years. Capable of storing 100 MWh of thermal energy from solar and wind sources, it will enable residents to eliminate oil from their district heating network, helping to cut emissions by nearly 70 per cent. "It's exciting to build a large-scale thermal energy storage, which will also act as a primary production plant in Pornainen's district heating network,” says Liisa Nask...
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Tata, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), has revealed it is building the biggest electric vehicle gigafactory in the UK, in the south-west county of Somerset. The brownstone site, at the Gravity Smart Campus in Puriton, near Bridgwater, was previously a Royal Ordnance Factory from the World War II, until it stopped operating in 2008. It is expected to manufacture about 40GWh worth of battery cells every year, which should account for around 500,000 vehicles. The company has revealed it will start off producing batteries for JLR vehicles such as the Defender, Range Rover and Jaguar brands. H...
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A company in New Zealand is turning discarded woodchips into synthetic graphite that can be used in EV batteries. CarbonScape makes ‘biographite’ by heating byproducts from the forestry industry using a process called thermo-catalytic graphitisation. This produces charcoal, which can be catalysed and purified into battery anode-quality graphite. The startup says their alternative graphite is a more sustainable option and can help Europe reduce its dependence on China for lithium-ion batteries. What is biographite and why is it important?The graphite key to making EV batteries is currently sour...
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The former Spanish deputy prime minister and economy minister, who took office in early January, told Euronews' The Global Conversation that the green transition could be at risk if there is not enough private investment. Calviño pledged the EIB will help build investor confidence for projects in areas such as green hydrogen and battery factories. "Companies have to think twice before undertaking some of the necessary investments," she said. "There is a lot of uncertainty and geopolitical tensions that also limit the tolerable risk for companies. That is why the EIB plays an important role in ...
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One of Europe’s deepest mines in a small town in Finland is being transformed into an underground energy store. It will use gravity to retain excess power for when it is needed. The remote Finnish community of Pyhäjärvi is 450 kilometres north of Helsinki. Its more than 1,400-metre-deep zinc and copper Pyhäsalmi mine has been decommissioned but is now being given a new lease of life by Scotland-based company Gravitricity. The firm has developed an energy storage system that raises and lowers weights, offering what it says are “some of the best characteristics of lithium-ion batteries and pumpe...
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Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for more than 14 per cent of new car sales in Europe last year and are expected to achieve a 20 per cent market share in 2024. But as EVs continue to gain in popularity, many potential buyers are concerned about how well they work in winter. Before you hit the road, here’s our guide to getting the maximum performance out of your EV in the cold weather. Crash test data in the US shows EVs may be too heavy to be stopped by safety guardrails on roadsDoes cold weather affect electric vehicles?Like humans, cars prefer ambient temperatures and cold weather will caus...
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If you are looking to buy a scooter that could help you to get around the town or campus, is environment friendly and super reliable as well, then you just landed on the right page. In this article, we will be reviewing the G PRO. The G PRO is a 3-wheel electric scooter (trike) from GoTrax, which is a known name in the world of electric scooters, hoverboards and e-bikes. Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Why You Need An Electric Scooter?Before we talk about the G PRO, it is important to understand why you may need an electric scooter, especially one with three wheels. Everyday c...
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