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South Korea to boost EV numbers to 1.13 million by 2025

South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced virtually, at the first International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, that in a $17 billion investment, the country will boost the number of electric cars from the current 110,000 to 1.13 million by 2025, and increase the number of hydrogen vehicles from 8,000 to 200,000. Seoul’s environment ministry said it will achieve this massive green-car…
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EGEB: A great breakthrough for solar panel recycling

Researchers discover an eco-friendly way to recycle silicon — used in solar panels — into nanoparticles. South Korea will increase the number of EVs from the current 110,000 to 1.13 million by 2025. A Scottish distillery has designed a “climate-positive” vodka made…
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VW CEO tests Tesla Model Y, calls it a VW ‘reference’ car

VW CEO Hebert Diess revealed that after having Elon Musk test drive the ID.3, he himself test-drove the Tesla Model Y, which he says is a “reference” car for the German automaker. Much has been said about the meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and VW Hebert Diess last week. Yesterday, the latter confirmed that there’s no deal in the making between the two automakers and that it was…
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Quick Charge Podcast: September 8, 2020

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Zooz Bikes launches 3 new BMX-style electric bikes that are light on weight, heavy on nostalgia

Remember your childhood, ripping around the neighborhood on a bare-bones BMX bike? certainly does, which is why they’ve tried to recapture that nostalgia in a lineup of three new electric bikes unlike anything we’ve seen before. Zooz Bikes has just announced the launch of its new electric bike model known as The Urban Ultralight. The bikes are available in three versions: The Zooz Urban…
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Drone flyover of Tesla’s massive new casting machine shows new parts outside

A new drone flyover of Tesla’s massive new casting machine, which is apparently the biggest in the world, shows new casted parts outside. Last month, we reported on Tesla installing what is believed to be the world’s biggest casting machine outside Fremont factory. The machine is so big that it couldn’t be assembled inside the factory, so Tesla seems to have assembled it outside and built…
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