Oil Major Total, Carmaker PSA Set-Up $6B EV Battery Venture
Supermajor Total continues to invest in clean energy by creating a joint venture with automaker Groupe PSA to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles in Europe—a project expected to mobilize investment of more than US$5.9 billion (5 billion euro). Total, via…
Electric Buses Stored In London Garage To Become ‘Virtual Power Station’
United Kingdom-based SSE Enterprise is working on a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project at London’s Northumberland Park bus garage, where electricity would be generated from buses when it’s not ferrying passengers. The ‘Bus2Grid’ garage will function as a ‘virtual power station’ using…
Haldor Topsoe Joins Ambitious Hydrogen And Sustainable Fuel Project In Denmark
Haldor Topsoe has joined a hydrogen and sustainable fuel project based on electrolysis in the Greater Copenhagen Area. The project is expected to be executed by 2030 in three stages, achieving the capacity of 10 megawatts (MW) in 2023; 250…
Volvo Buses Inks New Electric Bus Orders In Norway
Norway is one of the most active nations when it comes to cutting carbon emissions. That means putting significant incentives in place for electric vehicles, be they passenger vehicles, trucks, ferries, or buses. One of its policy initiatives calls for…
Nissan & E.ON Partner On Large UK Vehicle-To-Grid Project
Nissan has been partnering with a variety of players for years on vehicle-to-grid pilot projects.There are a variety of different ways that you can use the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) connection, but they mostly involve EVs taking electricity when its in low…
UK Launching New £1B Automotive Transformation Fund To Help Move UK Auto Sector To Zero Emissions
In the UK, the competition for the first £10 million (US$13 million) of a new £1-billion (US$1.3 billion) Automotive Transformation Fund has begun. The overall program will offer a share of up to £1 billion of funding for industrial research…
Vulcan Is A Step Closer To Net-Zero-Carbon Lithium Production
In the transition away from fossil fuels, electric vehicles (EV) are set to be deployed on a massive scale in the 2020s. This will create a huge market for lithium-ion batteries (LIB), and battery-quality lithium. This shift is taking place…
EIB And Endesa Partner To Install 8,500 EV Charging Points In Spain
The European Investment Bank and Endesa are joining forces to promote electric mobility in Spain. To this end, the EU bank will provide the Spanish company with €35 million in financing for the installation of electric charging stations across the…
With Verkor, France Has Another Giga-Battery Factory Project
Lithium battery cells will be rolling off a production line at a 16GWh-capacity factory in France in 2023, with manufacturing startup Verkor then planning to scale up to 50GWh “in line with market dynamics”. Suitable land for the first Verkor…
Audi, EnBW To Turn Electric Car Batteries Into Grid Support Tools
German carmaker Audi and utility EnBW are setting up an electric car battery operation at EnBW’s Heilbronn plant to build scaleable storage facilities by the end of this year, drawing on retired batteries to help power grids. Electric vehicle battery…
