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PGM SUPPLY: Atlatsa, RPM progress Bokoni restructure plan
- Date: 14-11-18
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Research Channel
Rustenburg Platinum Mines (RPM) and Atlatsa have, throughout this year, continued to work towards the implementation of the 2017 Restructure Plan at the Bokoni mine.
View full storyEMISSIONS: EPA Seeks 50-State Rule to Cut Heavy-Duty Truck Pollution
- Date: 14-11-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: Trucks
The first new rule since 2001 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce smog-forming pollution from heavy-duty trucks was positively received by the trucking industry and EPA critics.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: China Is leading the World to an electric car future
- Date: 14-11-18
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Bloomberg
The world’s biggest market for electric vehicles wants to get even bigger, so it’s giving automakers what amounts to an ultimatum. Starting in January, all major manufacturers operating in China—from global giants Toyota Motor and General Motors to domestic players BYD and BAIC Motor—have to meet minimum requirements there for producing new-energy vehicles, or NEVs (plug-in hybrids, pure-battery electrics, and fuel-cell autos). A complex government equation requires that a sizable portion of their production or imports must be green in 2019, with escalating goals thereafter.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Ballard closes strategic collaboration with Weichai Power; heavy-duty fuel cell vehicles
- Date: 14-11-18
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Green Car Congress
Ballard Power Systems has successfully closed a strategic collaboration transaction with Weichai Power Co., Ltd., initially announced in August.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Lonmin deal must deliver on social benefits, Competition Tribunal hears
- Date: 14-11-18
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Business Live
Communities have complained to the Competition Tribunal about a veil of secrecy around the proposed merger of Lonmin and Sibanye-Stillwater.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Mercedes launches 'GLC F-Cell' hydrogen/PHEV powertrain
- Date: 13-11-18
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Just Auto
Mercedes says the powertrain set-up for the vehicle is unique as it features both fuel cells and a battery drive which can be charged externally using plug-in technology. Alongside various national and regional ministries as well as the National Organisation Hydrogen (NOW) and H2 Mobility, the first customers in the German market also include Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway operator.
View full storyEMISSIONS: Electrifying the World Is No Panacea for Global Warming, IEA Says
- Date: 13-11-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: Bloomberg
Driving electric cars and scrapping your natural gas-fired boiler won’t make a dent in global carbon emissions, and may even increase pollution levels.
View full storyBATTERIES: Battery prices will go down by 52% between 2018 and 2030
- Date: 13-11-18
- Category: BATTERIES
- Source: Automotive World
Lithium-ion batteries will see their price going down by 52 per cent between 2018 and 2030, and this (together with the rise of electric vehicles market) will drive the global energy storage market growing to a cumulative 857GWh by 2040 (now we are at 198 gigawatt hours).
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