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Why New Production Sources of Tungsten Are Critical for Increased Global Supply

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in the April report for the Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Index. As manufacturers set to ramp product back up to produce everything from automobiles, airplanes and construction tools, they will begin to return to normal production cycles. New Tungsten Production Will Open the Global Supply Chain.

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Gevo enters on-road automobile gasoline market in Houston with 12.5% isobutanol blend

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blend of its bio-isobutanol with gasoline marketed for use in automobiles has begun to be sold in the Houston area. Musket Corporation is Gevo’s distribution partner serving the Houston market and is blending the specially formulated gasoline containing Gevo’s isobutanol to distribute into the on-road automobile market. Earlier post.).

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Delhi Transport Corporation orders 1500 Tata Motors electric buses

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will supply, operate and maintain 1,500 units of 12-meter low-floor air-conditioned electric buses for a period 12 years. Up to now, Tata Motors has supplied more than 730 electric buses across multiple cities in India, which have cumulatively clocked more than 55 million kilometers, with an uptime of more than 95%.

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Electric Last Mile Solutions announces long-term supply agreement with Wuling Motors

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Electric Last Mile Solutions (ELMS), a designer of intelligent, e-mobility workstations for the last mile, signed a binding, long-term supply agreement with Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Industry Co.,

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Rheinmetall wins three-digit million-euro order to supply structural parts for premium automaker EV

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Rheinmetall has won a automobile industry order for structural parts worth a figure in the low three-digit million euro range. The scope of supply encompasses hundreds of thousands of these fully processed parts. Cast in a complex process, the parts will be used in a fully electric vehicle made by a well-known premium automaker.

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TenneT and Daimler testing use of automobile battery systems for grid stabilization and recovery

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The project partners have shown in the Kamenz test lab that automobile battery storage systems can perform the job of system stabilisation for large-scale power plants. Today, diesel power units are used to restart turbines (rotating masses) in power stations and to supply power to auxiliary units.

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ZF and start-up Levant Power partnering on first fully active, regenerative suspension for automobiles

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This then functions like a generator; it converts the generated kinetic energy into electricity and feeds it into the vehicle power supply, thus contributing to a reduction in CO 2 emissions. Then, the system guides the oil in the damper in such a way that it drives the electric pump motor.