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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Holland, MI Lebanon, OR (Entek). Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. The Recovery Act awards for electric drive vehicle battery and component manufacturing are, by category: Cell, Battery, and Materials Manufacturing Facilities: $1,247 million. DOE Award ($mil.). Project locations.

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EV fightback! Can the 2026 Honda-Nissan-Mitsubishi merger finally get Japan competitive against Tesla and the Chinese?

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Post the merger, Honda-Nissan promises consumers “more attractive products” Nissan chief executive Makoto Uchida said: “The business environment continues to change significantly and faster than expected. 2024 Honda Prologue EV. But he still expressed confidence the Japanese car-maker’s future was bright.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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Given this environment, it is not surprising that the revenue elasticity of production is highly sensitive, and negative. They are fighting a multi-front war with Iran directly (in Yemen) and indirectly (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq). Saudi Arabia increased production by 6.8 Their need for revenue is intensifying rather than moderating.

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Israel carves playground as automobile era powerhouse

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Even if it has made ease with some, it nonetheless faces blackmails from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. “You have an environment in Tel Aviv where you can see 10 VCs in one day,” Gertel stated. All the way through a lot of its historical past, antagonistic neighbors have surrounded Israel.

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This Solar Engineer Is Patching Lebanon’s Power Grid

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In Mira Daher s home country of Lebanon, the national grid provides power for only a few hours a day. The countrys state-owned energy provider, Electricity of Lebanon (EDL), has long struggled to meet demand, and a crippling economic crisis that began in 2019 has worsened the situation. Daher led the U.N.-funded