Comparisons are useful in evaluating a company, but in the rare earth market, it's not as simple as a spreadsheet. With so many variables in the mix, no two projects are exactly alike, and each has its relative strengths and weaknesses. But ...
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Hal Quinn, President and CEO of the National Mining Association, testified before Congress recently on new legislation that would address America's dependence on critical metals. Critical metals are materials used in so-called ...
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Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...
The policies designed by the US federal government in a bid to promote electric vehicles (EV) will cost $7.5bn through 2019, according to a new report. The US Congressional Budget Office report revealed that have 'little to no impact' on ...
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China Quality Certification Center and China North Vehicle Research Institute have developed and introduced safety certification for power batteries used in vehicle. The details are as follows. Apply for:013057 Certification ...
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany have successfully tested power transistors made of gallium nitride (GaN) in power electronic systems. By using such transistors the researchers says ...
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China-based Build Your Dreams (BYD) will establish a new electric bus manufacturing plant in California, US by 2013. The factory's location is to be declared by March or April 2013, which is to be backed up by a Warren Buffet company. ...
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Basic Facts Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu Province. Split into halves by Lake Tai, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east. The northern half looks across to Taizhou to the north over the Yangtze River, while the ...
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Imagine a smartphone that can go weeks without needing its battery recharged. Apple owns the patent for a fuel cell system to power a portable computer, and that patent may be one to watch as the company rolls out new versions of its ...
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Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT has delivered two of its electric vehicles to Spanish utility company Endesa as a part of pilot test in Spain. The vehicles include Altea XL Electric Ecomotive, and a plug-in hybrid Leon TwinDrive ...
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Mitsubishi says it is well-placed to offer electric vehicles at an affordable price,as it readies future products without internal combustion power. Outlander project development manager Mitsuyoshi Hattari claimed that the company has ...
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Under funding from the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Physical Systems Program, a University of Notre Dame research group is attempting to develop mathematical algorithms to help guide the integration of plug-in hybrid electric ...
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18 October 2012 GaN Systems expands to new US office GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada,which is a fabless provider of gallium nitride(GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications,has ...
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December 13, 2012 - Pierre-Luc Desgagne, senior director Strategic Planning at Hydro-Quebec, took the opportunity to announce—on behalf of The Electric Circuit's founding partners—the selected locations for the first public ...
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The local launch of the Renault Fluence Z.E.has been postponed indefinitely following delays with the rollout of Australia's electric vehicle infrastructure. Renault Australia today confirmed its decision to set back the introduction of ...
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