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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Politics and supply chain difficulties suggest European battery push is too frenetic to work well
- Date: 07-12-18
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Financial Times
10 HOURS AGO To quote a battery engineer: “For the European auto companies to change over to electric vehicles is like turning a battleship. And it’s a battleship with a mutinous crew.” As the European policy world noticed with this week’s French government surrender on diesel taxes, going green is not that easy.
View full storyAUTO SALES: China Lending Crackdown Deals Blow to World's Biggest Car Market
- Date: 06-12-18
- Category: AUTO SALES
- Source: Bloomberg
China’s plan to escalate its crackdown on peer-to-peer lending could hardly have come at a worse time for the country’s slumping car market.
View full storyZIMBABWE: AngloPlat commissions 10MW Unki smelter in Zimbabwe
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: ZIMBABWE
- Source: IOL
HARARE – Anglo Platinum has completed construction of a smelter at its Unki mine in Zimbabwe and the mining group’s chief executive will open the beneficiation facility together with President Emerson Mnangagwa next week.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Springs-based fuel cell SEZ approved
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Mining Weekly
The special economic zone (SEZ) for fuel cell development, proposed for development by the Gauteng Industrial Development Zone initiative and Impala Platinum (Implats), has been approved, Implats fuel cell coordinator Fahmida Smith told attendees at the International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy Industry Forum, in Pretoria, on Wednesday.
View full storyEMISSIONS: Italy proposes measures to spur sales of low-emission cars
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: Reuters
MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - Italy plans to offer subsidies of up to 6,000 euros ($6,800) to buyers of new low emission vehicles and will increase taxes on new petrol and diesel cars, two government officials said on Wednesday.
View full storyAUTO PRODUCTION: European vehicle market statistics, 2018/2019
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: AUTO PRODUCTION
- Source: ICCT
The European vehicle market statistics pocketbook offers a statistical portrait of passenger car and light commercial vehicle fleets in the European Union, updated annually. The emphasis is on vehicle technologies and emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. Brief introductions to each chapter note important trends and provide selected comparisons to other large vehicle markets.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Monchetundra now fully authorised
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Mining Weekly
The office of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has official approved the mine permit for the Monchetundra platinum group metals (PGMs) and base metals mine, Aim-listed Eurasia Mining reported on Wednesday.
View full storyLITHIUM: High risk/high reward lithium bet drives Argentina mining surge
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: LITHIUM
- Source: Mining Weekly
SANTIAGO – High risk/high reward. That’s the bet being made by global lithium miners in Argentina who are brushing aside a recession, a currency crisis and political uncertainty in their hunger for the mineral that helps power electric cars.
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