Plans were announced this week for two new electric car battery plants in France and Britain involving Envision, the Shanghai-based company that has quietly built a global renewable energy empire. Envision’s two billion euro ($2.4 billion) electric car battery plant in Douai, northern France, will supply French carmaker Renault, it said, becoming France’s second so-called […]
Huge solar panels poke out of pumpkin and tomato fields in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, where after infrastructure was destroyed during a decade of war, many have switched to renewable energy. “We used to rely on diesel-powered generators, but it was a struggle with fuel shortages and price hikes,” said Khaled Mustafa, one of dozens of […]
Japanese auto giant Nissan on Thursday announced plans to build the UK’s first car-battery “gigafactory”, where it will build a new electric vehicle. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the post-Brexit investment totalling £1.0 billion ($1.4 billion, 1.2 billion euros), which is set to create 6,200 jobs, as “a major vote of confidence in […]
A Marine air base successfully tested its independent electric microgrid after external power supplies were deliberately cut off, it said on Wednesday. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar conducted two tests of its Energy Resilience Readiness Exercise this week, a program undertaken by the Pentagon to ensure electricity to military installations in the event of an […]
Britain’s automotive sector must build huge electric car battery “gigafactories” to secure both its future and the transition to greener energy, industry body SMMT declared Tuesday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) published an industry blueprint at its annual meeting, as demand grows for electric vehicles and speculation swirls over a […]
President Emmanuel Macron visited northern France on Monday to applaud plans for a Chinese-owned battery factory that will supply the automaker Renault as Europe steps up its shift toward electric vehicles. The two-billion-euro ($2.4 billion) project by China’s Envision is being saluted as an example of Macron’s efforts to encourage foreign firms to “Choose France” […]
