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Toyota’s new senior management remains committed to multi-pathway future; becoming a mobility company

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Sato opened by saying that for the car to continue being a necessary part of society, the future of the car needs to be changed. —Koji Sato Through this all-direction approach, Toyota aims to reduce average CO 2 emissions its vehicles sold worldwide by 33% by 2030 and by more than 50% by 2035 compared to 2019.It

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. As part of the electric offensive, Mercedes-Benz Cars counts on local emission-free vehicles.

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131. ELECTRIFYING EVERYTHING IN THE 2020s

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Lithium-ion batteries will power more applications — electrification of everything: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry highlights the progress lithium-ion batteries achieved in the past four decades. Increasingly, they are making inroads in transportation and grid storage applications. That will change. That must change.

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

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The two catalysts absorb different parts of the light spectrum and work in a complementary way to split water. Researchers from Italy and Israel recently reported a method that harnesses semiconductor nanorods topped with platinum spheres that convert almost 4 percent of solar energy into hydrogen fuel. . According to the U.S.

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