Marine Environment At Risk Due to Ship Emissions

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:00:32 +0000

According to a recent study conducted by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the collective release of metals and other environmentally harmful substances by ships poses a significant threat to the marine ecosystem. The researchers assessed the pollution levels caused by these emissions in four ports and discovered that over 90 percent of the contaminants […]

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Westinghouse, Fortum to Study Possibilities for AP1000, AP300 Nuclear Reactors in Finland and Sweden 

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:56:38 +0000

Westinghouse Electric and Finnish utility Fortum will cooperate to explore developing and deploying AP1000 and AP300 reactor projects in Finland and Sweden.  The companies on June 7 signed memoranda of […]

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First Solar Buys Evolar

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 03:50:46 +0000

First Solar has been around for, well, what seems like forever. It was founded in 1999, well before the solar boom took off and solar power became big business. Back then, there were all kinds of claims about how little solar power could ever contribute to the electricity supply. It was seen by many as […]

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Volvo Trucks Is Helping Miners Do What Hollywood Did For The Italian Job

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:42:03 +0000

Last year, I shared the lesser-known story of the first electric Minis. For most people, the first electric Mini was the one revealed around the time of the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show, but it turns out that more than 15 years earlier, most of us saw electric Minis on the big screen and didn’t […]

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Swedish Mining Group Boliden Is Getting Electric Trucks From Volvo For Underground Mining Operations

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:05:20 +0000

Campus-based operations such as mines are some of the best places for utilizing electric vehicles. The nature of their operations often revolve around regular, repetitive routes at well known times and intervals, making it fairly straightforward when it comes to setting up charging infrastructure onsite and managing fleet charging. It’s safe to say drivers of […]

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3D Battery Imaging Reveals the Secret Real-Time Life of Lithium-Metal Cells

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:31:13 +0000

Innovative battery researchers have cracked the code to creating real-time 3D images of the promising but temperamental lithium metal battery as it cycles. A team from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in observing how the lithium metal in the cell behaves as it charges and discharges. The new method may contribute to batteries […]

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Big EV Fast Charging News from Denmark & Sweden

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:57:10 +0000

Electric vehicle adoption is jumping in countries around the world, but perhaps no more quickly than in Europe’s wealthier northerly nations. Along with higher EV sales comes the need for more EV charging, and we’ve got some more good news in that regard here again. Denmark’s electric vehicle uptake has been growing strong — great […]

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XPeng Enters 4 European Countries

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:40:41 +0000

One of the most exciting car companies in the world — from my perspective — is the Chinese “smart EV” startup XPeng. It’s been around for a few years, so it may seem like a veteran in some regards in this fast-growing and fast-changing market, but it’s very much a nascent company trying to scale […]

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Permits Issued for Major Finnish Offshore Wind Projects

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:05:11 +0000

Ireland’s Simply Blue Energy and Swedish wind developer Eolus Vina AB have been granted a research permit for a major offshore floating wind project sited near Finland in the Bothnian Sea. The location is in the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea. The Dec. 30 announcement came the same day that Eolus said it was […]

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Vestas’ Year-End Deals Include Wind Projects in U.S., Brazil, Ireland

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:13:21 +0000

Major wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced several deals as the company ends 2022, including what the Danish company calls the largest wind project in Latin America, along with a U.S. onshore wind repowering project. The announcements come as the wind power industry continues to be challenged by several factors, including equipment supply chain along […]

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