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Price fighter!  Volkswagen shows more of its cheap Volkswagen ID.1 ahead of 2027 release when it will take on the BYD Dolphin and MG4

EV Central

and rival the current crop of cheap Chinese EVs including the cut-price BYD Dolphin and MG4 as well as the inbound European Renault Twingo EV, the new baby VW EV has been confirmed for price that will kick-off at around 20,000 ($A33,000). Still to be confirmed for the cheap VW EV is its name. Fresh sketches of the2027 Volkswagen ID.1small

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Mexico’s New President Has A Plan: A Cheap Mexican EV For The Masses Called “Olinia”

CleanTechnica EVs

She has announced she’ll make sure that, by the end of her term, Mexico owns a locally designed, locally built, [continued] The post Mexico’s New President Has A Plan: A Cheap Mexican EV For The Masses Called “Olinia” appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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UNIST team develops novel hydrogen production process using biomass oxidation instead of water oxidation as electron source

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Conventionally, water is considered a cheap and clean source of electrons; 2H 2 O ? The new device has been designed to move electrons from lignin, along the wire to the electrode where the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) occurs. O 2 +4H + +4e - , E o = 1.23V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE).

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Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

Cars That Think

With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. Traditional sensors were too expensive for the farmers to buy in large quantities, and, as a result, the special resolution wasn't high enough to reflect this variability.

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Mercedes Design Boss Comes Out Against Screens, Says They’re ‘Not Luxury’

The Truth About Cars

Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener has confessed that massive screens arent much of a luxury now that practically every vehicle offers them as standard equipment. The design chief also went into discussing how the consumer perception of EVs has been the real problem in his purview. From the hardware side it's very good.

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Simple process for the production of fuel additives from residual forest biomass

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Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in Fuel. —Aguilar et al.

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