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    aus Deutschland exportierte Neuwagen fährt elektrisch. Ein Lichtblick in der E-Auto-Krise: Die Exporte stiegen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 58 Prozent. Deutschland hat im vergangenen Jahr mehr Elektroautos exportiert als eingeführt. Insgesamt seien rund 786.000 E-Autos im Wert von 36 Milliarden Euro exportiert worden, teilte das Statistische Bundesamt mit. Somit habe jeder vierte aus Deutschland...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    There are various lobby groups that continue to support the combustion engine. The most powerful is the oil industry, its influence on politics is huge. She directs completely absurd propaganda against electric cars. Stupid rumors are spread, such as that an electric car doesn't work in winter. CO2 comparisons are drawn up, which include the upstream chains of all components in the electric car, while...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    hielten die Lithium-Ionen-Akkus dadurch doppelt so viele Ladezyklen durch wie normalerweise. Den Grund dafür enthüllten die Analysen. Sie stecken in Handys, Notebooks und Kameras, aber auch in Elektroautos oder der Elektronik von Flugzeugen: Lithium-Ionen-Batterien sind für die heutige Technik nahezu unverzichtbar. Denn die Akkus haben eine relativ hohe Energiedichte und können oft auf- und...

  4. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    sondern auch erfreulicher gestalten. Doch die weitverbreiteten Energiespeicher sind nicht perfekt. Beispielsweise erschwert die niedrige Energiedichte der Batterien ihren Einsatz in Elektroautos. Die teils langen Ladezeiten machen das „Auftanken“ der Akkus zur Geduldprobe. Ein weiteres Problem ist der Leistungsverlust der Lithium-Ionen-Akkus bei Kälte und Frost: Bei Temperaturen unter minus 20...

  5. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    nutzen, damit die Energiewende schnell und rechtzeitig gelingt. Eine der wichtigsten Strategien ist dabei die direkte Elektrifizierung, also den Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien als Antrieb für Elektroautos und Co zu nutzen. Ein anderer Ansatz ist die indirekte Stromnutzung für „grünen“ Wasserstoff oder synthetische Kraftstoffe (eFuels), die dann beispielsweise als Antrieb für Fahrzeuge dienen......

  6. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    for civil use only... * Subsidies | Competition | Solar industry | Protectionism China dictates solar expansion Should we save small fish like Meyer Burger? China dominates the construction of electric cars, the market for important raw materials such as lithium and now also the solar industry: The People's Republic produces so many solar modules that the prices for them rose by almost 50 percent last year...

  7. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    definitely have a positive effect. This is when they give you the impetus to pause and question whether expenditure makes sense. In this respect, the end of the purchase bonus for electric cars offers the opportunity to readjust the political incentives to promote a transport transition. Because the concept of the so-called environmental bonus was anything but successful. The federal government provided...

  8. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    The SPD suffered from this, this time it benefited them. In addition, the Merkel bonus was lost at the Union, there were fights for the leadership and a puppet show between Söder and Laschet... * China | Electric cars | Battery technology How China is decarbonizing its public transport Part 2: China is a pioneer not only in electric cars, but also in the electrification of public transport. The vehicles...

  9. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    The federal government's hope: By expanding the generation options for renewable electricity, it will become cheaper - and thus convince even the last doubters to switch to electric cars, heat pumps and solar systems. But currently electricity is expensive, much more expensive than natural gas or oil. Consumers currently pay around 30 cents per kilowatt hour for...

  10. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    from China The manufacturer CATL promises short charging times and a range of 700 kilometers with its LFP battery. Is this the “game changer” – or an intermediate step to a real breakthrough? Purely electric cars are becoming increasingly popular; there are now over a million of them in Germany. However, according to surveys, over 70 percent of drivers want to continue driving a combustion engine - especially...

  11. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    * Chemistry | PFAS ban | Eternity Poison A world without Teflon? The European chemicals agency ECHA is considering sweeping restrictions on fluorinated chemicals used in jet engines, electric cars, cooling systems, semiconductors and countless end products. That would have consequences for many areas of life. In February 2023, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki...

  12. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    which corresponds to an increase of 64 percent compared to the same month last year. Their share of total registrations was 18,9 percent. In the first half of the year, almost 32 percent more electric cars were registered than in the previous year... * July 17, 1984 (INES 3 NAMS 1,8) Sellafield, GBR Around 2,9 TBq of radioactive radiation was released. A solvent fire in the sludge tank of...

  13. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    if the interim targets for reducing CO2 emissions from fossil fuels set out in the current CO2 regulation are not achieved. At the same time, buying electric cars or replacing oil heating with a heat pump becomes an additional source of income. Let's do it like the Swiss! The federal government recently decided on the action program...

  14. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Resch also spoke of “horror news” for the transport sector in view of 144 accelerated motorway construction projects and a planned “factual equality” between combustion engines and electric cars. * France | Nuclear lobby | Net zero nuclear power dispute: Paris wants to increase pressure on Brussels Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently described nuclear power as not strategic...

  15. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    further developed. More than 90 percent of valuable battery metals can be recovered using their technology. What happens to the old batteries from discarded electric cars? There are myths and rumors surrounding this question. Thanks to new methods with which batteries are no longer just shredded or melted, but treated with wet chemicals, up to 96...

  16. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    to completely phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030. This also applies to a significant increase in electricity consumption, for example if more heat pumps were used in buildings or if more electric cars were on the roads... *** January 04th Lützerath | RWE | Eviction of the village before eviction because of lignite: The RWE machines are moving forward The residents of the village of Lützerath in...

  17. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    not at all? Ralf Streck: You can also get a little something from Switzerland. But Switzerland is already planning emergency shutdowns. And above all, they are obviously already planning that electric cars will no longer be allowed to be charged because Switzerland was often dependent on electricity from France in the winter. The Swiss, like the British, know the problem exactly. The British are already...

  18. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    about 10 kilowatt hours. This means that a golf-class car can travel around 17 kilometers. A similarly sized electric car can travel 10 kilometers using 50 kilowatt hours of electricity. By switching to electric cars powered by green electricity, the final energy requirement falls by 70 percent. The situation is similar with heating: with gas and oil heating, some of the energy is lost; from a...

  19. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    is in full swing. The climate and energy crises are massively increasing the pressure for change. Renewable energies are being increasingly used again. And with the electrification of heat pumps and electric cars, the energy sectors are becoming increasingly intertwined. The transformation inevitably leads to further shifts among the players involved in the energy market. The relevance of...

  20. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    do not do justice, hardly feel any consequences. * Profiteering to the detriment of the climate! Emissions trading | Climate neutral | Greenwashing emissions trading with zero effect We can now sell CO2 emission certificates for the two electric cars that we have owned as a family for years. However, their climate protection effect is zero. What kind of profiteering to the detriment of...

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