The EU bank is making it possible to put 650 new, less polluting buses on the roads The funds aim to help improve air quality in Spanish cities The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided almost EUR 200m to cut the polluting emissions produced by buses in Spain’s largest cities. The EU bank has been […]
Europe is beating the US in the battery race—with China’s help
The biggest reason we hear so much about electric cars is because of the falling costs of batteries. Lithium-ion batteries today cost less than one-fifth as they did in 2010. Within the next five years, some experts estimate that the total cost of owning an electric car—that is, upfront cost plus lifetime fuel cost—will be […]
Europe’s largest lithium project could be up and running mid-2022 -EMH
The European Union, keen to shorten its supply chains, is focusing on strategic minerals and developing supplies for its electric vehicle industry. LONDON: European Metals Holdings could begin operations at its Cinovec lithium project in the Czech Republic by mid-2022, and is holding preliminary discussions with potential customers, it said on Monday. Czech utility CEZ, […]
Electric Vehicle Sales Are Exploding In Europe
The next two years are likely to be the tipping point for electric vehicles (EVs) going mainstream in Europe, as the number of electric car models on the European market is set to more than triple in the next three years, Transport & Environment (T&E), Europe’s leading clean transport campaign group, says in a new […]
Electric Vehicle Sales Up 70% In Europe
The European passenger plug-in vehicle market scored some 37,000 registrations in April, growing 30% compared to the same period last year, a good performance considering that the overall market is still in the red (-1% in April). In April, fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 70% year over year (YoY), to some 24,000 deliveries, and were […]
Spain calls on EU to assess potential carbon tax on power imports
Spain’s acting government has called on the European Union to assess a potential carbon tax on power imports to protect the bloc’s interests and help it to pursue its environmental targets amid growing public concern over climate change. In a letter sent to their counterparts in the European Commission last week, Energy Minister Teresa Ribera […]
Recharging economies: The EV-battery manufacturing outlook for Europe
As uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, the EV-battery market represents an opportunity for European players. We assess the potential and look at factors guiding the location of production capacity. ith the dawn of electromobility and the resulting increase in EV production, the market for EV batteries has seen consistently high growth rates over the […]
Enel team fires German battery
Enel Green Power Germany, Enertrag and Leclanche have inaugurated the 22MW Cremzow energy storage system in the German state of Brandenburg. The €17m battery project in Cremzow will support the stability of the German grid by providing frequency regulation services to the country’s primary control reserve, Enel said. “When the grid’s frequency decreases due to […]
WoodMac: Solar Plants Cheaper Than Natural Gas ‘Just About Everywhere’ by 2023
The days of new gas-fired plants keeping up with utility solar will soon be over. But the rise of competitive renewables auctions means profits will be hard to come by, even in an expanding market. Solar will soon be able to out-compete gas-fired plants around the world. That doesn’t mean it will be any easier […]
Smart future for renewables: ees Europe lands in Germany this week
An annual highlight of the already-packed renewable energy industry calendar, Intersolar Europe brings tens of thousands of people to Munich each year to do business in the glorious Bavarian sunshine. Yet even there the sun occasionally fails to do its own business, which is a vaguely humorous way of saying that, by logical extension, the […]
