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Volvo Trucks had 42% market share of heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe in 2021

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New statistics show that Volvo Trucks was the market leader for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe 2021 with a market share of 42%. The international trucking industry is undergoing a transformation towards more sustainable transport as sales of heavy battery electric trucks are starting to pick up, with Europe in the lead.

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NA steel industry has recycled more than 1B tons of steel since 1988; 16.3M tons of automotive scrap in 2012

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The North American steel industry has recycled more than one billion tons of steel since 1988, according to the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Since 1990, the steel industry has improved its energy efficiency per ton by 27& and has decreased its CO 2 emissions per ton by 33%.

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Novozymes sales of enzymes to the bioenergy industry increased by 34% in Q1

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Novozymes reported that sales of its enzymes to the bioenergy industry increased by 34% in Q1, driven by three enzymes that promise to improve profits for producers of corn ethanol: Avantec, Spirizyme Achieve and Olexa. Novozymes’ tech service team has played a big part in getting the new products quickly introduced in the ethanol industry.

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U of Michigan researchers map steel flow in US; suggest yield improvements focus on sheet metal forming in car industry

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The results of the material flow analysis (MFA), published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , indicate that yield improvement efforts should focus on sheet metal forming in the car industry, which accounts for nearly half of all generated fabrication scrap. Formally reconciled U.S. Drawn using e!

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PEUGEOT Cycles introducing new range of connected electric bikes designed and manufactured by startup Beweel

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These, through a new dedicated smartphone application, offer users at launch, among other things, adaptive electrical assistance, an anti-theft system, an alarm, bike geolocation, real-time navigation, destination weather forecasts, and route statistics.

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UK researchers report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid are major unreported source of VOCs emissions from cars, including EVs

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Scaling of industry sales statistics enabled the discrepancy to be attributed to the use of ancillary solvent products such as screenwash and deicer which are not included in internationally applied vehicle emission methodologies. While some VOCs are released in exhaust, others may arise from an unexpected source—e.g.,

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New statistical method to detect ozone pollution hot spots and monitor instrument failure; combining PCA and MEWMA

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A new statistical method developed by researchers at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) can detect abnormal ozone levels within large bodies of monitored data. The monitoring methods can quickly and accurately detect ozone anomalies—localized spikes in ozone concentration indicated by sensor data.

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